Quote Originally Posted by Cynfael View Post
The unfortunate and perhaps unavoidable issue with abilities that mitigate damage like Expanded Bole is that they are actually useless in the wrong context, and some players don't understand this.

It's kind of like the SCHs who run around dumping Sacred Soil because the buff looks good on paper; they don't imagine how a 10% damage mitigation can be a waste of a stack unless they stop to ask themselves if it actually helped them use fewer healing actions and realize that the answer is usually no.
Depends, I may use sacred soil when aetherflow is off CD so I don't waste what I had before. But that's another class to discuss /o/.


Bole is pretty damn useful, especially if the tank is being hit by more than one target. Because what it literally does for you is reduce the HPS requirement so you can DPS more. I don't use it for this situation on purpose. I only do it when i meet the inevitable after I royal road a bole, then placing the next consecutive bole I get in the spread and then I'll get a third bole after a redraw. zZZzZzZz


It's also wonderful to use on a DPS that is about to get hit by a boss tethered/marked mechanic. Especially if they have a vulnerability debuff.



Otherwise if the tank hp lost is not that quick, yes it would be useless to use it, even if the point is to dps longer.