Quote Originally Posted by WinterLuna View Post
There's guides everywhere emphasising it's importance.
Guides everywhere, except for the one place where it matters: in the game itself.

Provoke is arguably THE most important end-game cross-class skill. A majority of endgame fights depend on tank-swapping which is ridiculously difficult to do without Provoke.

Not only is the necessity of Provoke for tank swapping not hinted at during the entirety of ANY tank's pre-endgame progression (not even during GLD/PLD's!), the whole concept of tank swapping in the first place never comes up until you plop into Ultima's Bane or Titan Ex for the first time. Unless it happens to come up in casual conversation, a tank won't know to ask until they're actually in the instance, which will then fail, wasting everyone's time. There's no way a new tank is going to come away from that feeling good about the whole deal, even if the others in the instance were polite and understanding.

Seriously, that isn't right.