Quote Originally Posted by TouchandFeel View Post
While they both do require you to coordinate your usage of the abilities, their feedback loops to the player are polar opposites.
When you use NF poorly you simply minimize your gains and when you use NF well you are handsomely rewarded. This is a positive feedback loop.
When you use TBN poorly you lose a good chunk of dps and when you use it well you simply aren't punished. This is a negative feedback loop.

I do have to add that using NF poorly doesn't just mean that you minize healing gained depending on where you use it. Choosing to use NF instead of RI on a buster for example and then not utilizing those 6 seconds of selfheal optimally doesn't just mean that you would've gotten more value out of RI but also that your healers now need to spend more resources to make up for the extra damage you took and didn't heal up yourself. Poor TBN usage means you atleast still mitigate damage so you're just screwing yourself over, poor NF usage can screw your healers over as well.



But you don't need to tell me about the less-than-stellar feedback you get from using TBN, tell it to the people who keep screaming about how TBN is the best skill ever and anyone who disagrees doesn't know how to DRK.