Quote Originally Posted by Reynhart View Post
Clemency is a bigger DPS loss than TBN, heals probably less than 20% on PLD's max HP...and, with its cast time, can be wasted if a healer heals you in the meantime.
I won't get into the game of what ifs, but you can spam clemency in an emergency, you cannot spam TBN, it only buys you 5 seconds at most.

Quote Originally Posted by Reynhart View Post
Besides, with it's short recast, TBN can be applied on top on any other mitigation tool with no decrease in value, surpassing Sentinel paired with Sheltron.
Yes, the advantage to sheltron is having a faster recast time, it can be applied more frequently and does not bite into the mana/dps resource pool.