Thread: A DRK Rework Suggestion for 7.0 (or beyond)

Originally Posted by NightHour

If it's got a cap on the amount of damage it can transfer then it'll be good.

We don't need tanks 1 shotting themselves because they used a defensive against a raid buster.

It gives the DRK a barrier for 100% of her max HP and can be stacked with personals. In exchange, it transfers 15% of raid damage to the DRK instead of her team.
Bearing in mind, this does not come in lieu of Dark Missionary and can be stacked with it, reducing magic damage by an extra 10% (and possibly even double-dipping, just to add a layer of appeal to DM, unless they specifically write a bypass of DM into the transfer effect).

So at worst in an 8-man team the DRK takes 205% damage from a raid buster, which initially sounds like 5% overkill... assuming she would have lost 100% of her max health in the first place if she hadn't pressed it.
If she's topped off going into it, the raw damage would have to be at least 97.56% of the DRK's max health in damage -- after all raid buffs -- to be fatal to her. Given tanks have more health than any other role, that's enough damage that most of her raid team will be dead anyway, including any rezzers.

I mean theoretically there's a scenario where a DRK is already at low health before the buster and the transfer is what kills her, but mathematically there's a very slim margin of health where DRK would have died taking 2.05x damage even with a barrier for 100% of her max HP, when she would have survived without the barrier by only taking 1.00x damage.