Quote Originally Posted by Paikis View Post
3. It generates threat without doing damage. Spiny Plumes are a good use here, although that's about the only one I can think of currently.
That's no use on the Spiny Plume. When Spiny Plume spawns, it picks someone and dumps something like 100k enmity on them. The only way to get the Spiny to look at you with with Provoke.

Flash is still quite useful, it certainly isn't required, but why not use the resources you've been given? What else are you going to do with all that MP? What are you going to use instead? All the other options are even worse.
Because the resource it consumes is the CC slot. You're taking Flash for redundant enmity and arbitrary Pacification filler as if either of those matters when you could be taking abilities that actually *will* contribute to success. Mantra and Awareness are both going to do more for you than Flash will. It doesn't matter whether Flash uses MP or not because, even if it cost literally nothing instead of practically nothing, it still wouldn't contribute as much as either of those CDs.