The threat ability is not useless. But it is as far to the bottom as niche abilities can go. Unless drk can cross class it as a second provoke for something which I'm not even sure if they will have thf sub. But it's not useless. Just not impressive at all. Nins saying they currently can take hate at the start of a fight are playing with bad tanks. If we are designing things on the pretense all the players are bad why add positional? We should remove all of them and add more echo! But I believe the new skill will be a handle for a new mechanic. Possibility aggro dumping mob?