Quote Originally Posted by LeeraSorlan View Post
The only situation where you would need to spam overpower to keep aggro is if you are undergeared.

No dps will be able to rip aggro if you play war right with buffs and are around the same gear level. Simple. If you are needing to OP spam to hold aggro id reccommend checking your rotation and seeing where you can improve.

Flash is 99% useless and the 1% time it isnt is for emergency situations that were caused by the tanks own blunder (getting pacified shortly before a horde of enemies spawn).

Other than that, i guess you could just use it for extra "why not" padding during pacification, but its generally useless. Ive had flash on my war up to lvl 45 before i realized i never use it, and i dont miss it.

i understand you dont have war at 60 yet, and perhaps you didnt have a longtime lvl 50 war during ARR, so the learning process is still in effect for you, but once you get more accustomed to war, you will find yourself as well, almost never or if ever, using flash.
Couple points:

1) I am still leveling and gearing up, so sometimes I am very far behind the DPS in the gear power curve. I did the Vault for the first time yesterday, and I was the only one who didn't get sync'd down. I didn't spam it, but I added a Flash to every initial Overpower on trash packs. Nobody seemed to mind, or if they did, they didn't mind enough to say anything. Maybe they weren't expecting me to do much besides hold AE aggro.

2) I do understand my rotations, but not every DPS understands which order to take mobs down, even with marks. Sometimes, in that 4-6 mob pull, DPS fixates on mob 5 while you are working rotations and moving down the line. When a mob turns to run off and I don't want to interrupt a rotation, Flash works just fine. It's on my bar for a reason, same as Provoke, which might get used once every 3-4 DF runs.

3) I screw up plenty, but not everything is based on my screw up. If I mark 1-2-3, and DPS starts with 3, that's not on me, but rather than adhere to some hard and fast rotation rule for the sake of forum purity, I may hit Flash. Once again, I use it infrequently enough that I almost always have full MP when I do use it, and it doesn't interrupt any of my TP combos. It can be and is very handy that way.

4) Sometimes, the DPS is such that it's all big pulls and sick AE. My job at that point changes from proper enmity rotations to flinging Tomahawks, running between packs with Flash (since it is PBAE, insta-cast and doesn't require a target to work properly), and then simply holding AE enmity while my DPS does their AE "nuke the world" thing. And even then, I can't spam Flash because 4-5 casts puts a WAR OOMP. I just mix it in to make my DF life easier sometimes.

Bottom line, there are times where Flash is the perfect tool for the job. It is not keybound to any of my G13 keys and I have to actually click it, so it is a background tool, but a tool that has uses nonetheless.