Quote Originally Posted by Bhearil View Post
For example on a Tyrfling from Zurvan EX Intervention is far far better. We are considering uselfuness on hard content, and there Intervention scaling is much better. The scenarios where a tank can eat even 40k damage inmitigated on the span of 6 seconds are not so rare on hard content, otherwise tanks would never need to turn on tank stance/use defensive cds to mitigate certain atacks...
Tyrfing is a multi-hit attack that takes longer than 6s. The Blackest Night would be better because it would mitigate a full 4.1k while Intervention would only mitigate the first couple hits which might not reach the target number unless it is buffed. You need to take 41k+ damage within 5s for an unbuffed Intervention to be better.

Single hit telegraphed psuedo-busters on dps and healers are where The Blackest Night is going to shine over Intervention as any hit over 4.1k will show the full benefit of TBN while Intervention will not have the same level of effect unless they spend Rampart or Sentinel on attacks that deal more than 1/2 a casters hp (26k at i290) or 2/3rds a melee's hp (29k). DpS are not going to be hit by attacks that will deal 140% to 157% of their max hp.