Another U9 intimidate complaint

[etelan]

I've been following intimidate since they announced the changes coming to Lamannia and now that it is settled into live I have to ask HUH? Intimidate was a tool that accounted for a couple of the most useful raid strategies, was arguably the primary reason for ever caring about a shield, and perhaps the best reason to build a stalwart defender. My understanding is that the system was 'improved' by first making it useless in every place it was useful and then creating new uses for it which are not only much lesser, but also don't work.

Useful tactics pre U9
These are no longer possible because shield blocking will not hold aggro. In addition, the 15 second cooldown is an issue for both of these teleporting bosses.
1) VoD: Shield blocking negates curse making it one of the very few alternatives to a WF tank.
2) DQ: Shield DR blocks a large portion of damage from the quick successive hits. Intimidate pulls damage off the party.

Epic DQ has even fewer successful methods than VoD, so why would they even consider siding here with 'the ball'?!? Of all the cheesy tactics in the history of DQ this is perhaps the lamest and most lagtastic of them all!

Playing by the new rules
Ok, DDO let's give this new system a try. Improved threat generation you say? Well, threat generation is easier to get than a raid boss intimidate score and as a tank I really don't have a use for more, but let's give it a try somewhere where holding aggro is useful and difficult. I'll drop the most epic feat of them all, toughness, and take the new shield mastery feats. Then I will find the best 1h dq beater I can manage (very small selection to compete with epic 2H). Epic Chimera's and Epic Chaosblade both get a lot of immunes. Ok, now I will use my massive threat generation augmented by a maxed out intimidate score to hold aggro with low dps. The shield mastery feats will partially make up for not having shield block DR. The 15 second cooldown is going to be a problem on teleports, but I will play smart and time it when it's most useful.

Can anyone guess the outcome of this all this work? I'll give you a hint: intimidate is worthless.