Yet another (stupid) idea to fix TBN.

[WhyAmIHere]

Here's a crazy idea i had a few minutes ago.

What if we take TBN, and turn it into an AST bubble? You freeze the animation where during TBN you hold your sword aloft, expand the size of the bubble to being a larger dome, and while active you reduce the damage dealt to all allies in the bubble by a percentage.
Alternatively, or additionally, whatever, a portion of the damage dealt to all allies is either converted into blood, or returned to you as HP/MP.
Like the AST bubble, the barrier drops when you move or do any other actions.

[SyzzleSpark]

Sadly, yet another thing we have to sacrifice DPS to do.

Also it feels tacky as hell to give DRK a party shield immediately after they gave WAR a party shield to match PLD's party shield. We need utility, I guess I'd just prefer something different.

If they are going to give us raid mitigation, it really has to be something in a similar vein of HW Reprisal because if they give us yet another party shield on top of WAR's and PLD's that's practically tank LB1 territory altogether which seems like a really poor decision for SE to make.

[Rufalus]

I think the gameplay is quite fun already and would personally just be happy with number tweaks like shaving a little MP cost off almost everything. Oh wait, you mean give DRK an aoe shield like collective unconscious and sacred soil? I like that idea actually and it's quite different to pld's divine veil. Could it maybe be done without tampering with TBN, like (Dark Arts + Salted Earth) is the consecrated ground that reduces dmg for ppl standing on it; increase its size and add bubble effect so it's noticeable. Or totally change Dark Passenger effect to debuff enemy like MCH's Dismantle, I don't know.