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[Mhaeric]

provoke increase your enmity generation, it's not just a tank swap +1 enmity anymore

No, Provoke is still the same ability as before although I don't know if the enmity lead it gives you is specifically +1 or not. The ability hasn't undergone any functional changes, and is meant to be able to guarantee peeling a mob off of another player if they grab aggro. This mostly happens during a running pull these days. Tank swapping isn't really much of a thing anymore, but that's not because of any changes to Provoke or Shirk.

"Gesture threateningly, placing yourself at the top of a target's enmity list while gaining additional enmity."

[RyuSaarva]

No, Provoke is still the same ability as before although I don't know if the enmity lead it gives you is specifically +1 or not. The ability hasn't undergone any functional changes, and is meant to be able to guarantee peeling a mob off of another player if they grab aggro. This mostly happens during a running pull these days. Tank swapping isn't really much of a thing anymore, but that's not because of any changes to Provoke or Shirk.

"Gesture threateningly, placing yourself at the top of a target's enmity list while gaining additional enmity."

it has, the first google result tells me that provoke generates 350k worth of bonus enmity now at level 70.

[Mhaeric]

it has, the first google result tells me that provoke generates 350k worth of bonus enmity now at level 70.

It still doesn't change the fact that it's still a "put you at the top of the list plus some extra enmity" ability which is functionally identical to what it was before. 350k damage worth of enmity is just a larger window of extra enmity than before which just amounts to icing on the cake. Using it on cooldown for that unnecessary enmity gain might even potentially make it worse on the off chance it does happen to be needed like losing a mob during a running pull and it's still on cooldown.