Paladin Opener (Max Threat)

[Bashum]

About the only reason I can think of to open with provoke is for an extremely rare case where you need to aggro a mob from further away than a shield lob would allow you to. However I can't recall a single instance since I started tanking where I needed to use it for this. In almost all cases anything you could single pull with provoke, could also be single pulled with shield lob/tomahawk.