#BringBackHeavenswardReprisal

[Nivarea]

I don't see how bringing back the old reprisal is a problem concerning balance. I've seen that some fear that it would make DRK mendatory, but I doubt it would. I mean, PLD have a constant chance of blocking hits with their shield fot free, and nobody see it as a problem. They can use passage of arms and Divine Veil to help soak big splash damage, and it's really rare that both of em are on CD when that happens, and EVEN in the case they are, there's still role action's reprisal. Concerning WAR, they have Shake it off, which got a relatively short CD, and on their personnal level, for progression, remember that Defiance has a passive augmentation of parry the more gauge they got. It's not a great utility, WAR is rarely at max gauge, but it's here.

Old Reprisal was the equivalent of Paladin's shield in HW, explaining why they got less mitigation tools than other tanks. It can't be applied when the boss is not targetable, and it has not a 100% uptime, because of its CD and the problem of activating it with a proc. So really, it's already a well balanced skill, and would actually make using TBN as an offtank worth it everytime, contrary of what it is today, where it's not clear if it's worth the cost or not.

And the problem with DPS is not really one, because DRK is already lagging behind in this regard. The idea is to help mitigating fluff damage, which is one of the biggest problem with the mitigation tools we got as of now, the DPS gain is a nice bonus, akin to Shield Swipe for exemple, and got a similar situation wher it procs from blocks, and can be triggered with shieltron.