The majority of the time it is useless, it only helps when there are bosses that have a heal or adds that heal.
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You could start out DPSing at off the start you jsut had to be liberal with using heroic strike for the first 10-15% but after that you would get agro around the 30-50% mark unless the tank had thunderfury. If he had that he would hold threat till execute.