DRK needs re-tuning/buffing.

[SyzzleSpark]

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I'm not certain if this was directed at me, but I don't undervalue TBN, quite the opposite, I'm acutely aware of how powerful it is. My opinion is that its cooldown is too short; its almost like a secondary Dark Arts, a whole extra job mechanic. Punishment for mistiming it is fine, as I've said, tradeoffs are a valued part of job design. But the fact that we are encouraged to risk that punishment every 15 seconds? idk about that. And you want to press it often for the reasons you describe, while the rest of our CDs are aging, undervalued relics of 3.x. No other job in the game risks wasting 1/4 of their resource every 15s for a gamble on mitigation and dps.

Using it on cooldown to help mitigate damage in between tank busters (because it is often the only mitigation we have for this time period, which is a problem in itself) places undue focus on a boss's auto-attack rotation that no other tank or even job has to pay attention to. I find this really silly. TBs are a pass-fail mechanic, and now AAs are a pass-fail for our mana?

Like I said, I just really wish its cooldown would be increased by 10-15s, and some of that power be distributed elsewhere in our kit. Our other cooldowns just feel awful in comparison. I don't say that lightly. And even if TBN was on a 30s recast, it wouldn't be that much less powerful than it is now, if at all.

[Praesul]

I'm not certain if this was directed at me.

It wasn't, it was directed at people who think TBN isn't very good. Because they're horribly, horrendously, absolutely 100% wrong.