Did a titan XM run where I accidentally used Holmgang (because I was too quick on switching crossbar), got bind and ate fully stacked plume... Survived the hit of course but the Stomps killed me afterwards...
PLD hitting HG by accident wouldn't have that issue.


but yeah, Holmgang is pretty terrible even if I was pretty excited about it when I read the patch notes. I totally agree that it tries to do too much things but also:
- the start-up is waaaaaay to long to be effectively used on reaction... So many times, I tried to use it seeing I was in critical condition but the 1 sec start-up is plenty of time to die even though you'll still see the binding effect on the mob...
- Duration is ridiculous too... Since you have that star-up delay, you really only have 5 sec to get a benediction so the healer needs to be really quick to react and cast.

Without changing too much the design, I'd be ok with the still if we remove the start-up time and it really become instant either extend the duration to 10s at least.
And maybe as a bonus, increase IB healing to the original 300% so that we could have a chance to help in the recovery from 1hp...