Idea for TBN

[Sazuzaki]

I've thought about this a little, and thought it would be a decent way to add some HP sacrifice to DRK while tackling the issue of TBN being annoying to break.

If you use TBN, it changes into another ability, let's just say Blood Price. Blood Price can be used to sacrifice 10% of your HP to break TBN's shield and grant you dark arts. This gives the player an option if they accidentally use TBN at the wrong time; either sacrifice 10% of your HP to not lose DPS, or if things are dire enough, just accept the DPS loss.

I think this could actually make DRK perform better in casual content. For example, I can't fit 5 edges into raid buff windows because I can't consistently pop TBN unless there's a well timed raid wide or tank buster. With this new TBN, I just HP sac to be able to fit that 5th edge of shadow. Yea yea, optimizing for casual content but what other fun is there to be had in that type of content. If anything, it brings more identity into casual DRK.

Maybe this could result in PF being terrorized by shitty DRK main tanks constantly taking extra damage, but I argue that's the core identity of DRK; great power at a cost. But a good DRK knows when to control themselves and accept the loss (or just get gud and break your TBNs properly). Nevertheless, designing jobs around bad players has already proven itself to be kind of shitty.