Fresh 60 Help.

[Violette]

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Look I don't mean to be a dick, but you by your own admission don't have raiding experience and even when you're not doing world first, doing more DPS to clear faster is always preferable. I.E. swapping to sword oath for the small phases in A5S, doing entire fights in sword oath because you have a ninja or a war pulling, etc.

If you want to raid and be a good raider, you always need to be good at all aspects of your class.
What good is a black mage with a top 1 dummy dps who can't move during a fight?
A healer who can't balance healing and damage?
A tank who only uses RoH because it's the most enmity?

None at all. Being able to stance dance and play your class to it's fullest is something that will never hurt a raid. If you keep making these compromises, that "it'd be nice but not necessary", at what point do you stop being good and start being a burden? If the entire team is okay with being "ehh it's not needed", when do you stop being a raid group and start stagnating?

I'm not arguing that one should ALWAYS TANK IN SWORD OATH (it's fun though), but learning HOW to do it, from tracking enmity, gcd usage, cooldowns needed, etc, without the safety net of 20% damage down and enmity up, is something every raiding tank should know. It's a lot harder to learn how to do this in a fight, than coming in with a broad understanding of how it's done and when it should be done.