If you're pulling with Provoke you're doing it wrong

[Amyas]

What? I don't even....

While there may be a rare instance where Provoke pulling is necessary for the longer range, it SHOULD NOT be your primary pulling tool. That's what Shield Lob and Tomahawk are for and their range is generally sufficient. Provoke does NOTHING for you at the beginning of a fight in terms of enmity like Shield Lob and Tomahawk do.

Take the 'dangerous' pull after Coincounter in AV (actually all of AV in general, especially the beginning), and so many other pulls in Every. Single. Dungeon. You can't use shield lob or tomahawk without pulling more mobs than necessary, and if you pull two groups that aren't linked accidentally, you've 'failed' that pull imo.

I mean, using provoke to pull I've gotten compliments from people saying 'Oh wow I didn't realize those groups weren't linked' obviously because other tanks like the OP here just runs in and tomahawks w/e is closest and pull the whole room. You don't realize how common mobs that aren't linked with a group are, even in low level dungeons. There's always three to four linked that are static in a particular room, then ones that move about and intermingle with the ones that actually are linked. Provoke makes nitpicking easy, and helps so so much with pugs and duty finder groups that can't just plow through everything.