Unchained, when do I use it?

[SpookyGhost]

The way I do it is I make a choice. After my opener, I very rarely need to actually use Butcher's Block - the threat you gain from popping all your offensive buffs with Maim and Eye up pretty much seals your hate against everyone. Eventually I might have to BB, in which case I'll usually just let Path fall off for those few GCDs and then go back to SE -> SP -> repeat.

If damage is more valuable than the mitigation (aka any content where my healer's aren't stressed for healing), I'll drop SP entirely and just SE -> BB -> repeat. But usually this is just 4man dungeons and stuff, I value SP pretty heavily for any 8man stuff.

This also sorta assumes you've got a decent enough weapon to keep hate against the DPS. The worse your weapon, the more times you'll have to BB. You also might not be able to get away with opening with Eye if your weapon isn't up to par, as you're generating enmity solely through damage and offensive buffs - no enmity multipliers involved. If that's the case, you should open with BB -> Eye -> BB. Unfortunately that's the worst of the two options, but it's not something you can fix unless you get a better weapon.

[Krissey]

Unfortunately that's the worst of the two options, but it's not something you can fix unless you get a better weapon.

I bought an illvl 115 Axe from a vendor in Ishgarde when I dinged 50 immediately, just in case you are refering to my ilvl 90 Bravura. I am doing the relic quest for fun, because it is the iconic Warrior weapon from the artwork and I want to take it to maximum glowy/spell effects without changing it into the double bladed axe where it loses the recognizable iconic form. So I think I'll be stopping at Nexus, which will probably be better than the vendor axe of equal ilvl i bought.

[SpookyGhost]

I bought an illvl 115 Axe from a vendor in Ishgarde when I dinged 50 immediately, just in case you are refering to my ilvl 90 Bravura. I am doing the relic quest for fun, because it is the iconic Warrior weapon from the artwork and I want to take it to maximum glowy/spell effects without changing it into the double bladed axe where it loses the recognizable iconic form. So I think I'll be stopping at Nexus, which will probably be better than the vendor axe of equal ilvl i bought.

I was just speaking in general, there's a lot of tanks out there undergeared trying to pull off DPS shenanigans and it's not really helping them out. P:

The Bravura is a really nice axe, though - especially at the later glowy stages, so keep at it. It is a bit tiny, but that might just be because of my equally tiny lalafell body.