Have we moved to an age where taking hate as a dps = bad dps instead of bad tank?

[Chubby13]

I agree, in casual content it can be kind of funny. However you've got admit, once you've ripped aggro the jokes pretty much over, may as well stop for a second and let the tank take it back.

But how else are we suppose to watch the headless chickens run away from us when they rip aggro... that is the highlight of my run as tank, people who somehow by some miracle rip aggro off me as tank and run AWAY from me expecting that will save them.

[Shurrikhan]

But how else are we suppose to watch the headless chickens run away from us when they rip aggro... that is the highlight of my run as tank, people who somehow by some miracle rip aggro off me as tank and run AWAY from me expecting that will save them.

I just pop defensives and swap in when I take aggro, even move the boss as it usually would be if necessary. But then again, that's on Monk, where I don't really have any other means of recourse left. Or on Bard, after having used Quelling Strikes with every Raging Strikes burn period, and having already started a slightly early Ballad... In the meanwhile though, I often have a NIN sitting there seemingly without Smoke Screen on his hotbars. (Obviously not as kind a NIN as ReplicaX.)

(Btw, I too use Shadewalker within the opener itself to maximize its enmity transfer, especially in casual content where the potion oGCD isn't going to be used. Not sure why some tanks will freak out about getting more out of it, especially as its after the Tomahawk and first combo that they would otherwise start losing threat normally.)