Is TBN a bad skill?

[Goji1639]

I like how it functions like an active block, making it feel like a defensive action like a dodge or parry instead of just another CD. The short timer allows you to react with it, and that's way more fun than just monitoring a laundry list of long CDs.

As for how good it is, it's obviously very strong in a lot of situations. It's kind of the crux of the Dark Knight class, though, so in situations where it's not strong DRK's have very little else to fall back on. In the levels before you have it the class is brutal.

The thing is, in anything but savage/ultimate, that dps loss really doesn't mean much.
Perhaps some extremes when progging their first week could do with it to meet dps checks, but many aren't that strict.

I'd also assume that in savage/ultimate the damage output is high enough where TBN is almost guaranteed to get eaten on use.