WAR raid "UTILITY" (Tank Balanced achieved?)

[Chrono_Rising]

Darkest Night is OP. that's 1 redeeming quality for you.

Except that TBN isn't anything other than the mitigation that dark knight is missing. I think this has been addressed multiple times but here is a quick run down.

Is it really a raid utility? I would say no, other than the occasional mess up, people are not depending on a 5k shield to live through a mechanic.

Does it help make that one person easier to heal? Sure, they need 5k less hp restored, but if you are putting this on anyone other than a tank then we are probably talking raid damage and healers will need to heal like this isn't there since you didn't TBN the rest of the party. Are you putting this on your MT/OT to live? Well not a single tankbuster has pushed me below 10k HP when mitigated properly, so again the 5k shield isn't going to buy alot of time, oh and for tank busters pld does this but better with intervention or cover, while also having one party wide mitigation and 1 party wide shield.

Ok, but TBN is a dps gain for dark knight, right? Nope, its a dps loss on 2 of our 3 combos actions (assuming soul eater), meaning it must be used 3 times in a phase to at best break even.

What is TBN? It is mitigation to balance out the fact that the class lost a cross role defensive ability which was useful for physical autoattacks, an int down ability which could be kept up 100% of the time, a parry boosting ability meant for physical autos which also proced another mitigation, and a 10% damage down (which applied raid wide) and lasted 20 seconds while dealing damage oGCD. This is the dark knight problem, we lost raid utility and a ton of mitigation which forced the need for a massive mitigation overhaul, what we got was one move designed to be used every 15 seconds with a nonexistant hint at raid utility. We do less damage than either of the other options, we mitigate less, and do nothing significant for the party as a whole. We'll see exactly what kind of utility WAR gets in a few days, but if it really is a raid wide shield on a one minute CD then I'm certain dark knight will lose its appeal as a progression tank as well. However, patch notes will tell all.