TKMs being an extended class were never meant to be as overpowered as they ended up being in PvM/MvP. are they useless? not really. they've never been useless, perhaps for soloing reasons they're not nearly as good as they used to be, but no class is particularly useless, especially when it comes to partying in the higher end dungeons.
one potential way of getting around shield reflect in thors is to have a pally devo you and absorb the reflect damage, unless that doesn't work that way anymore, in which case that really does suck, but there's other places to go as well. granted it'd be nicer if there was a map reset npc to reset warmths and angers, but i believe you can still get it to trigger the intended way by /doridori next to another TK class.
