Tanks using their enmity combo while being OT

[lawlHT]

Or the WAR can forego a tiny amount of personal DPS in exchange for better raid DPS by letting the MT stance-dance and use their damage combos instead of their enmity combos.

Good mts can do this anyway. If you start your pull in tank stance and are good enough at your job to keep the dps difference between you and your ot than this isn't an issue.

[Crater]

Good mts can do this anyway. If you start your pull in tank stance and are good enough at your job to keep the dps difference between you and your ot than this isn't an issue.

It's not a matter of being "good enough" to hold hate. Nobody is sitting here going "Well gee golly, it's just impossible for me to keep hate over a Warrior in Deliverance using Butcher's Block and I don't know how to even do that!" Anybody with a pulse, a brain, and some fingers (and some of the more talented people who lack those things) can hold hate.

But to do that as a Paladin or Dark Knight requires the use of extra Rage of Halone/Power Slash combos, that are not required to hold hate over Monks, White Mages, Astrologians, or Warriors who are being more mindful of their threat. Rage of Halone and Power Slash are a Paladin and Dark Knight's weakest combos - every time one gets used, they are doing less damage than they would be if they were able to use a Royal Authority, Delirium, or (DA) Souleater combo.

The damage that a Paladin or Dark Knight loses from having to use Rage of Halone instead of Royal Authority, or Power Slash instead of Delirium/Souleater, is significantly greater than the damage that a Warrior loses from using an extra Storm's Eye combo instead of a Butcher's Block. No amount of "being a good MT" is going to change that simple mathematical fact.

It does not make sense for a Warrior to force a Dark Knight or a Paladin to forego 60-80 potency, so that the Warrior can gain 20 potency. Not even if the PLD/DRK is in their tank stance. Not even if the Warrior has Berserk up. Butcher's Block as an OT is only ever appropriate when it is not going to force the PLD/DRK to use an enmity combo in a place where they wouldn't otherwise be using one.