Dark Knight needs serious help

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

Well, DRK > PLD. Tell a modern-XIV-raider PLD to Clemency someone, sacrificing a GCD, and they'll likely have a conniption. GNB at least has a free ally-targetable heal beyond their on-demand, opposite WAR's just absurd amount of total sustain grantable even to non-tanks via SiO and NF.

PLD Intervention has the same total heal potency as a regen as Clemency. Unless a fight is so tightly strapped that they need to use all the oath gauge on tanks only, they can use Intervention to heal people, doubly so if they mitigate something with it.

Clemency is only the backup when shit hits the fan.

[Shurrikhan]

PLD Intervention has the same total heal potency as a regen as Clemency. Unless a fight is so tightly strapped that they need to use all the oath gauge on tanks only, they can use Intervention to heal people, doubly so if they mitigate something with it.

Clemency is only the backup when shit hits the fan.

There's not much value in separating sustain into mitigation and healing in that fashion, though. Yes, Intervention can heal for as much as Clemency, but as a HoT. Per a mere 15s, TBN can also shield for more than that. Why fuss over the one and not the other if the values are similar (atop the shield being more likely to prevent a death on a low-HP ally than the % miti + HoT?

I have to agree with Lyth here. There's not inherently any more a problem with tank healing than with tank mitigation; the issue is simply that a lot of the newest healing takes virtually no consideration to optimize, or outright cannot be optimized in itself (only by healers not wasting oGCDs just before Req, etc.). But were that a barrier one didn't need to optimize the timing of, the issue would be the same. They're both sustain and, in that example, both relatively skill-less / "braindead".