Interesting Tank Research

[Cabalabob]

Well of course using TBN more is going to increase DRKs defence, no reason to stop the presses for that revelation. But there’s a reason people don’t use it much outside of tankbusters.

What does a PLD use to put up Shelton? Oath gauge, something not used for much else than sheltron. What does it get for using sheltron? Take any 1 hit in 10 seconds and you gain a large chunk of mp and a free oGCD attack proc. There’s no reason to not use it and everything to gain for using it.

Now let’s compare that to TBN, you’re using mp, a precious resource to DRK used for pretty much everything else in their kit. What do you get? A shield that when broken gives you blood gauge, a not as precious resource as the mp used to get it. But that shield may or may not even be broken in the next 7 seconds depending on the kind of damage you take, the only guarantee it’ll break is a tankbuster.

Hence why it doesn’t get used much outside of busters, the design is just so ass backwards when compared to sheltron.

Sheltron uses a fairly expendable resource to give you mitigation that is all but gauranteed to give you a precious resource/dps increase.

TBN uses a precious resource to give you mitigation that MIGHT give you an expendable resource that will pretty much only make you break even on the dps you would have gotten spending the precious resource on dps.

Basically the risk vs the reward on TBN is out of balance except on tankbusters where you at least know it will break.