Unchained...nothing stays the same (but how do YOU use it?)

[Jamillion]

Unchained has two mayor uses.

1) Burst enmity generation, if you are MTing then ALWAYS pull a boss with unchained active. It will give you a significant enmity advantage over other players. Ensuring you can deliverance to your hearts content. All MT pulls from a WAR should start with Unchained -> Tomahawk -> Eye Combo -> Butchers Combo -> Switch to Deliverance if you want and DPS away. You will never loose enmity to anyone (except for another really good WAR).

2) Extra DPS when situations require you to swap to Defiance. During A2S, I only have to Defiance at one point (when I have to tank the two Dolls in Wave 7). I always make sure to pop-in Unchained at this point in order to maximize my DPS as much as possible.

Unchained is somewhat situation but it should be extremely useful in just about any encounter.

I just want to point out that even on a single target it's better to pull with overpower than it is with tomahawk.

[Syzygian]

I just want to point out that even on a single target it's better to pull with overpower than it is with tomahawk.

Overpower's range is barely half of Tomahawk. Its technically impossible to pull with since you will always facepull first like a scrub.

I'd actually strongly recommend against this in fact, as in a controlled fight your DPS/healers will go caveman as soon as they see you hit a Tomahawk, and generally be safe, if they try and do the same while you mosey into Overpower range you're losing seconds of DPS uptime and can potentially end up with the boss yo-yoing into a suboptimal position.

Not a habit I'd recommend getting into.

Running up to the boss and pulling in general is pretty sloppy and suboptimal, actually. All of the de facto ranged tank pulling abilities (Shield Lob, Tomahawk, Unmend) have a 15y range which means you can get within range to use these abilities on any boss without actually pulling them. Doing this before a pull and then hitting the button from a standing position and THEN running to the boss allows your DPS to immediately go to town without any worry of face-aggro. If you run up to the boss even if you're mashing the button, the attack will not register on the boss until after you have already facepulled, and if any of your DPS have started their openers in that period you're putting the pull at a disadvantage.

[Jamillion]

snip

I've literally never had any of those problems and I've been tanking on war for over a year, sooo....

[Syzygian]

I've literally never had any of those problems and I've been tanking on war for over a year, sooo....

Doesn't change the fact that you're facepulling. I'm just saying its sloppy but if sloppy works for you then it works for you. I just wouldn't recommend it to a new tank.

[Rawrz]

I'd actually strongly recommend against this in fact, as in a controlled fight your DPS/healers will go caveman as soon as they see you hit a Tomahawk

This is what I see prepull.