TBN vs DA (analysis and discussion)

[Chrono_Rising]

The question is never really 'should I use TBN at all?'

Personally, I think people have got the DPS>All mentality stuck in their minds far to rigidly. The DPS benefit from avoiding TBN except when absolutely necessary is fractions of a % of a loss on average, and at times, fractions of a % gain. The VAST majority of players are not playing optimally enough to be able to leverage only the gains and dodge the losses. Its unrealistic for the avg drk to know if this specific use is a gain or a loss at that moment in this specific fight/situation.

This sidesteps the real issue anyway. All of the chatter about TBN as a gain or a loss is really just splitting hairs.

I'm not even sure what you are arguing against as I don't see anyone suggesting to not use it at all. Honestly, I thought this post was fairly balanced and brought up an apparently needed conversation given the recent false claims in another thread claiming that TBN greatly out weighs the 2400 mana in terms of DPS.

My major problem. Paladin is now blocking for 27% with sheltron, and I've been told when I get my diamond shield I can expect 28% mitigation from blocking. This means that Sheltron is the superior mitigation for anything hitting above about 71% of your maximum HP. On its own that isn't so bad, the issue is that sheltron performs so much better in the range of damage you would want to use TBN on AND functions as a damage increase by procing shield swipe.

By the end of the expac I'm almost positive we are going to have sheltron in the 30% range with essentially a 22 second cooldown which you can use for 100 oGCD potency. This is what people are comparing TBN to. To me this is just more of the same Dark is closer to warrior for mitigation and paladin for dps. It is the worst of both worlds.