Quote Originally Posted by Kitru View Post
Unless you've been ignoring that add for the last 10 seconds, Provoke is going to be less useful than simply dropping a BB/Halone on the target.
For 8 man raids with trivial clearing, yes.

But in dungeons, even 5 seconds is LONG time in this game. It is enough time to build easily more hate than a RoH/BB will get you (even if you have it combo queued up) and that same amount of time could easily put a devastating amount of hurt into any DPS/Healing class. I use a provoke/cover hot-key all the time in dungeons, including CM. I will even sometimes intentionally let my enmity lapse on a target that is getting AE'ed while I build a huge cushion on my main target, then as soon as it breaks off from me, Provoke + Shield Lob + RoH, and now I have everything neatly under control once again, without having to have run around like a chicken with my head cut off.

Provoke is very useful.