Alright I played back in 1.0. I leveled Gladiator to 50 and had got my paladin job crystal and the armor set before the servers went down (Well I couldnt play anymore maybe a month or two before Dalamund fell) I am now as we speak about to do the gladiator quest line and all of that jazz but my question is about shield lob.

what I have been doing before is just simply attacking one mob and then constantly using flash every 10 or so seconds and I manage to keep hate on me quite efficiently but with shield lob is it literally a skill you just use at the start of the pull and thats it or are there other viable means to use it in an encounter?