Is TBN a bad skill?

[Hierro]

TBN is really, really powerful. Other forms of mitigation tend to reduce their effectiveness due to diminishing returns. However, with TBN, other CDs are actually made even stronger because TBN is an increase to health, essentially.

It has a duration of 7 seconds, while being on a 15 second cooldown. If there were no MP cost and completely free, there'd be nothing stopping DRK from slamming the button on cooldown to have 25% more HP than the other tanks half the time. That's absolutely bonkers!

I now have a more nuanced opinion of TBN, however, after knowing the complete freedom of healing with NF on WAR-- It feels nice to be able to use NF with impunity, and in getting in the habit of using that defensive on cooldown, I definitely find myself feeling naked and tempted to slam that button whenever it's lit up. In SB, I would more or less spam TBN whenever I knew autos were incoming, but that's when the bubble was only 20% of your HP. The extra 5% has definitely had an effect and I find myself not popping the bubble when getting in the habit of using it "whenever." This means that TBN has been balanced for tank busters and AoEs+following auto, where you have a guarantee of a pop. Now, you COULD optimize your TBN usages and learn the times when there are longer sequences of autos, but man, that's more work than I care to do.

However, since I feel that this tier has been lackluster in tank-busters, TBN's tankbuster specialty is somewhat overkill. So, all things considered, I think TBN's been overall lowkey nerfed from SB to ShB.

Still an awesome CD tho.