Quote Originally Posted by caspergrey View Post
Situational really. Usually no. fast blade -> savage blade is more threat. And in most cases you have a some lead in time to pull aggro. But if you're looking for quick and dirty aggro, RoH off combo is still your highest standalone threat generating ability.

Places where I have opened with it:

Coil Turn 1 split. RoH is better than shield lob for getting that initial threat, and usually you will be in melee when it spawns.
Coil Turn 2 pulls. Usually those mobs open with repelling cannons. So it's enough to get in a shield lob while running, CoS, and RoH off combo, and then you're dodging the first repelling cannon, vs only getting in that first fast blade before dodging.
I'd never use RoH on a fresh spawn if combo wasn't ready because the animation takes way to long and I've ran into situations where enemies run out of range of RoH before the effect is applied. Much better off just tossing out a flash on turn 1 split because it's instant and does not require a target first.

Same with the Turn 4 drop down spawns especially since you can apply the flash effect before the enemies even become targetable here.

I've pretty much stopped using RoH off of combo because there really isn't anything in this game at the moment that is going to be able to get hate off you using Flash => CoS/Spirits => Fast Blade fast enough except a badly timed Medica II. Nothing but a comboed RoH is going to prevent that anyway.