Is it pointless to lvl Paladin?

[Februs]

Maybe if they're god awful at tanking and you severely out-gear them. The only time the enmity on Halone is ever an issue is when you are WAR / DRK MT without Defiance / Grit in synced 50 content.

This is actually not true. It may not be the case now, but I can tell you from first hand experience that before 3.0 I was stealing hate off of War MT's all the time while in SwO, even at equal level. By the time I was full geared at 130 I had to resort to rotating Riot Blade in between my primary combo just to make sure I didn't steal aggro from other Tanks, and even then I would be red-lining my enmity if the War was slipping up even a little. If Drk's were around back then they might have had it different, but they weren't around back then so it's hard to say.

Why you would have the PLD OT in that situation fails the test of basic logic, though.

Truly illogical, and it basically boiled down to envy.

War's had the big stick and all the Dps, so they felt that they had to MT to display their dominance, especially in the cesspool that was CT/ST/WoD... Alright, I'm picking on War's a bit. When it came to the Crystal Tower Raids, everybody wanted to be the star of the show in there (Pld's and War's both), and there would be an inevitable tug-o-war between two of the tanks trying prove they had the bigger manhood. It got so bad that I just started Que-ing in SwO just to try to avoid the other two Tanks... only to end up tanking every single boss anyway because I was exceeding everyone's enmity despite being in SwO. It was a pretty frequent occurrence and lead to me utterly hating those Raids because of it's toxic Tank environment.

As for other raids, there are some that required Tank swaps (like T6, for example). Pld could not be tanking the whole time, and it was a pain in the butt to try to nerf your own enmity so that the War didn't lose hate when it was their turn.