Originally Posted by
stX3
First of all I understand what you are saying.
Though raiding is not all about DPS, Barrier will save your life/Cauterize proccing, were as tempest shield does not. If you are at 100%hp then its no problem however if your in death range of crush/pheromone damage tempest shield procs your Cauteize. I Do realise that if you use tempest just before a hit that sends you into Cauterize it will heal for insane amounts.
Barrier negates the damage to not stress out your healers/saves your life if cauterize is on cd.
Imo cauterize cd should be saved for mistakes like getting the frontal cone, or when you choose to purposely proc it due to what ever reason, this could be a tank dying and you need to soak frontal cone, or you need to kite boss in a way that you will be likely to get it, or that you need to kite in a way the healer might not be able to get in range of u etc etc.
Actually there was a post somewhere about this exact topic of tempest vs Barrier on garalon, i have tried searching the forums to the best of my memory / knowledge but i cannot find it. And i am not the strongest in laying out math my self, what i can say is the post summarized it something like this;
Crush does 150k damage, the poster had SP equal to barrier absorbing 114k damage.
Tempest of cause heals all the damage.
Both have same CD.
But tempest is a 6s time frame window only, Barrier can be applied Before pull, and have cd up again straight after first crush. Over a whole fight he math'ed out the amount of uses that could be gained, and in the end barrier would have absorbed more damage than tempest would have healed.
Personally i find that i can use barrier just before a crush, and at such a short time before the stun(stun hist during the GCD that follows barrier), that i would not be able to do anything but refresh a bomb witch is usually already running. In the end it is mostly a choice, I did try out both during our progression, and at that time barrier just seemed like it was helping the raid more than tempest, enrage was never a problem for us.