Worth mentioning as well is that the hate produced by a scholar is a mere fraction of what a ranger produces. After a single-target hate reset, a single Provoke or Flash is enough to get the boss back on me from the mages. Rarely both might be needed.

If I'm hit with a hate reset and lose to a ranger, it takes significant effort to get the boss back on me.

Apex crabs are a great example of this. Killing crabs, while I was still regaining gear for PLD, most crabs only got a single flash (to pull it as the current target was dying). This flash, unless it had decayed too much, usually held the crab til it was dead, from mages doing 50k, 70k, 99k MBs. Let a DRK do a 50k ws after a flash/voke and enjoy the funeral.

Safer strategy by far.

I had once considered that maybe Immanence shouldn't be able to open a skillchain but only close it (or vise versa), but even that is just too much if the tank can reliably WS. You also can't make immanence trigger a longer cooldown because then people will just make sure to bring two scholars and have them SC together, as many groups do already.