Mass pulls: don't do this.

[Izsha]

'In current gear'.

You shouldn't rely on gear to make a pull successful. That's not a better way to pull, that's getting away with a bad habit because ilvl carries you with an extra few k hp so you don't need that regen or other cure.

Objective fact: a tank mass pulling with aggro on everything is safer than mass pulling without aggro. No risk of emergency heal jacking it uo. No risk of zealous dps scattering the mobs before you secure them. Aggro is better than no aggro.

That is not up for discussion. Your entire argument is based on tanks stopping and taking extra damage, not about threat. The tanks job is to find a way to do that without taking extra damage, and if you use your tools properly you can. Just as you talk about mobs not being in neat packs, every Lv 50 dungeon is a series of hallways. This isnt pulling AV 1st room. They are little packs of 3 to 4 mobs then a good space, then another pack all in constricted hallways. There are ways to grab almost every pack of mobs without taking circuitous routes or stopping.

There are ways to pull a variety of groupings balancing tp and mp properly for your job (war or pld) to have gas in the tank and it's been done a million times. Do I need to make paint diagrams of every possible mob grouping with instructions?
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as for needing maim, you only need maim up for the zerk/unchain/bloodbath/overpower madness when the killing starts. You don't need maim to flash and tomahawk stuff. Melee pulling is bad because it has no range and low enmity. You just get more beat up doing it.

Pld sprint pulls are nifty, but don't work for wars cuz tp vs mp etc. Pld sprint pulls are a bit if a special case because of the speed, and in a full castor group everyone can sprint without jeopardizing the kill.
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End of the day there's 2 points:
1. Tank that can't aggro stuff without stopping is not being a good tank.
2. Face pulling works sometimes when you overgear content enough doesn't make it 'better', it's using gear as a crutch to be bad (see #1). Properly pulled mobs don't make a tank stop and get beat up.