Quote Originally Posted by Vidu View Post
The ability you're talking off is "Provoke" and it doesnt work the way you think it does. You cant use it to build aggro, you can only use it to get aggro back. It "puts you on top of the aggro-list" in the sense that it takes the highste aggro someone has on the mob and adds +1 to that.
At the start of a fight there is no aggro, so Provoke does basically nothing.

...in regards to the rest of your post I'm not sure if you're just trolling - it almost reads like that.
You cant be serious about not using shield lob to pull a boss or Rage of Halone-combo to build basic aggro... Generally speaking you want to pull a boss by throwing your shield in their face, then build enough aggro to not lose the boss throughout the fight - one or two Halone-combos normally do the trick for me, depending on how good the dps is (gear- and skillwise) - and then drop out of tankstance for the rest of the encounter.

Rotating cooldowns, keeping your dots up and making use of Requiescat+Holy Spirit should be a given.
Good lord...

I'm not trying to troll. But anyway, thanks.

I'm serious about not using shield lob. There was a time in a dungeon when a player asked me to use shield lob, and I simply said "No... Flash is enough. Trust me. I've done this multiple times without shield lob." And then he/she accepted it and we finished the dungeon just fine. So that's that.