Quote Originally Posted by fm_fenrir View Post
Without someone else to produce threat, provoke is worth exactly 1 point of threat. It does $highest_threat+1, so if it's zero to start with, you get 1 whole point. It's literally nothing and a single tick of regen will overpower it instantly. That's why people are telling you to stop doing that.
Fun fact about provoke: It counts as an attack on the bombs in Pharos HM, so you can pop them from a longer distance. Neat party trick, not very useful otherwise.

Also, VIT doesn't make you any harder to kill unless your healer is straight up napping. In those cases, you'll still die, it just takes an extra attack. STR is critical for PLD for a number of reasons, but at the minimum consider that Clemency scales off AP, not VIT/HP. Hitting an 8k crit heal as a tank rules.
Though, I don't lose threat with it o.o because I continue to pull threat, and using it before shield lob or any other skill is even better. Never had issues with it lol