Shirk is amazing. (Ethics)

[Mnemosynia]

Shirk was not needed, all you needed to do was drop tank stance (if you were in it) have the OT Provoke and do one aggro combo.
Or If you werent in tank stance go into your dps rotation, have OT provoke and use aggro combo he may have needed to enter tank stance he may not depending on his damage.

Any tank that runs shirk is running it because they have no idea how to play a tank in an optimal way it is not a dps gain it's simply a way for a tank to be less mindful. To think that they gave tanks shirk instead of a role skill charge or maybe damage share or something. Nope they give us a tool that tanks were existing fine without.

And if any of you say no we needed it sophia ex was a perfect example of tank doing massive amounts of tank swaps with out shirk the only purpose I see it have is what the OP did which troll baddies and trash talkers for being assholes.

A lot of people are missing one of the side benefits of shirk: it's not just for tank swaps! I was doing deltascape 2.0 last night with a tank friend of mine. After a minute or two into the fight (so there was a bit of a enmity lead) I would, as the OT (READ: spare dps in this fight) provoke the boss and instantly shirk back onto the MT, essentially giving him +25% of his current enmity. From then on I repeated that every time it was off CD, which meant the DRK never had to use a enmity combo after that, even with good dps that were pushing the meter earlier in the fight.

As already stated it makes tank swaps so much more comfortable as well, you don't really need to be careful after a swap and the new tank only needs to use at most 1 enmity combo at the swap.

So you to find the skill useful u have to be playing next to an underperforming tank whilst blowing provoke which is extremely important cd if something were to go wrong like the MT dying and you need to pick up aggro before the boss kills other members of the raid.

Right...you may enjoy tanking but your ability to way cost to benefit while tanking is seriously lacking.