Quote Originally Posted by Sazuzaki View Post
Yeah TBN not breaking is the punishment, and to be honest, I wouldn't care that much if TBN stayed the same. My suggestion is here mainly for thinking of ways to reduce TBNs jank (like it punishing you for gearing up, the WHM stunlock, many that are already common knowledge) and adding a way XIV's DRK could have HP sac, but HP sac does come with the con of that being someone else's problem rather than yours. However, I do wish people were more open-minded to the idea of HP sac because there are certainly ways to include such a feature without it being obnoxious.
I think this is going to be a agree to disagree situation, however:

-TBN not breaking is the punishment, adding blood price negates that punishment (as you will always use it, even if it is at 1 second left of TBN). This essentially makes the skill use 3000 MP for a shield, if it doesn't break, you lose 10% HP, as opposed to lose an edge/flood. The punishment is far less so you don't need to plan the TBN at all as you know you can pop it at any time.
-As for WHM in trash packs, why are you using TBN when the WHM has started to use Holy? 99% of WHMs are going to use Holy at the start of a trash pull, so it is then the skill of the DRK to not use TBN in that window.

(This applies to Carighan as well) The devs didn't want DRK to sacrifice HP, this is a consistent thing since DRK's release in HW, so, instead, they made them sacrifice MP, with the DRK's MP economy being entirely managed by the DRK themselves and that was their compromise.

I have made many posts in the past about HP sac and as a short summary, if the DRK could recover HP in some way, it would either be too much healing or too little, too much invalidates the healer, too little gives healers extra to heal. There is also the frequency at which you can sacrifice HP as well as how much you sacrifice. Too often, you run the risk of not having enough HP to survive mechanics (at which point it is the healer's fault for not healing enough) or too little and it is inconsequential that you don't have to work around it at all. There is also gear differences as well as a slew of other factors. This might again be an agree to disagree situation, but that is a short summary of my thoughts.