Engame Warriors and Provoke

[Zakalwe]

There was a spirited (and ultimately way too long) thread in the General Discussion forum about healers and Swiftcast. Part of the discussion turned into a generic argument over what cross skills are considered must-haves. Someone posted that for Warriors Provoke and Flash were probably in that category. A couple Warriors came in and said they never bothered to get Provoke and frankly didn't see the need for it. I put in my two cents worth but figured these were not genuine end-game players and kind of shrugged it off.

Then a couple of days ago I was running my Bard through CT vainly hoping to get some upgrades on his DL armour, but no just a bunch more tank and dragoon pieces hitting the floor (even now I have never seen a Bard armour piece drop there). The tanks in our group were two Warriors, both well geared. We got to the boss fight where the 3 parties alternate turning into 'ghosts' in which state they are able to do damage on the boss. The key move is after turning into ghosts the party's tank Provokes and does a tank swap with the former-ghost tank. One of the Warriors stated that he didn't have Provoke so could the other Warrior do the tanking? No one said anything, but I was flabbergasted. The thing is, the Provoke-less tank seemed to be otherwise well played.

I'm assuming this is a rare case, but have others run into this kind of situation?