DRK needs re-tuning/buffing.

[Falgern]

I'm gonna go ahead and call exaggeration and nonsense on Lakshmi ex only taking 5% of your health with her buffed tankbuster if you use TBN with rampart, for one TBN doesn't give you 'real' damage protection it just gives you a shield worth a certain amount

TBN is 20% of your maximum health, meaning it is equal to rampart in terms of damage reduction if the damage you take is equal to the maximum of your health, and will reduce more damage than rampart if the damage is below your maximum health. Saying it doesn't provide "real" damage protection is just a stupid statement. It's just as good as any other cooldown in terms of reducing incoming damage. It is an absurdly strong cooldown and only really suffers when the damage is spread out in multiple hits.

If it really was that good then Dark Knights would not be complaining about being unable to survive tankbusters from Lakshmi and Susano ex because they run out of mitigation to use while their TBN alone isn't enough to cut it

Sorry what? I've tanked both of these a stupid amount of times, there is never a point where you run out of cooldowns on either of these encounters unless you're completely incapable of managing your cooldowns to any degree. TBN + Anything else is enough to survive whatever is thrown at you unless you are severely under geared for the content.