Quote Originally Posted by Kaze3434 View Post
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Just wanting to tell you that you're not incorrect, but you're taking in consideration the best case scenario of everything and this is only half good, half bad.

Let me put this way: do you know how many tanks I had to heal through bad big pulls? And how many tanks didn't use their CDs correctly? OR how many tanks didn't aggro well and I had to heal the dps more than the tank (yes it's something I had to deal with)? More than you can imagine. Sure this becomes "easier" if the tanks knows what to do but this is not always the case: everything we both said takes in consideration the best case scenario, where a tank dodges everything and uses CD accordingly, but it's not always the case: the reality is that a lot happens and there are a lot of variants.

And this brings back the topic: LD/WD is too unreliable because it requires a lot of "work" in order to be effective and considering that sometimes tanks might be extremely bad (but also extremely good), this might or might not work in a normal scenario. As a PLD when I cast HG I won't die even if the healer is bad at topping me and same for the WAR, despite the less duration of Holmgang, but as a DRK I will die regardless of my health, except if it reaches 100% hp.

Of course in raids this doesn't count "that much" because you have two healers, but it still doesn't change the point that it's just unreliable and needs some rework to make it a little better. As of now, it's just a P.I.T.A.

PS: A lot of tank busters aren't telegraphed and are like auto-attacks (like Titan), while some aren't (like Calcabrina) and here's one thing that I dislike about DRK: they don't have a reliable Defensive Burst like Inner Beast or Sheltron. Reprisal is a 10% damage debuff which is nice but has to be lucky to have it at the right time (its proc doesn't last long: you either use it or wait another parry). Dark Arts Dark Dance can trigger evasion but for what I know Tank Busters cannot be dodged so you'll have to stick with 30% parry chance. Their other CDs are mostly mitigation.