Quote Originally Posted by Valmar View Post
The Easist way to explain how to use provoke is this,

Provoke works like Taunt in WoW

If you Provoke something that you alrdy have aggro on, it is useless and you have wasted the cooldown.
how does that explain anything at all? Provoke doesn't work AT ALL like taunt in WoW.

The problem is with tanks either using it before ANYONE has established aggro (why would a tank provoke a mob they already control) i.e. on a pull when it is least effective, or tanks believing that just using provoke on a mob at range will be sufficient to bring the enemy back in line (and often it isn't unless the person it's wailing on is in range of your next ability, or they have the grace to stop attacking for a few seconds).

SE has designed this ability very, very badly, and what's worse is that other abilities around it that could have compensated (Holmgang comes to mind) were designed equally as badly so you cannot use them to help. SE is still learning how to design this kind of content, so I'm hopeful for the future... but simple things like this that can really help leveling tanks out should be quickly addressed. There is no reason why every individual tank class shouldn't have a base taunt before they start grouping. Period.