Quote Originally Posted by Lozza View Post
I don't believe that this is accidental at all.
It pretty much is.

What the tank does is to run to the position the mob "was" at the time you gave the engage order, regardless of where the mob is now (And he does the same automatically when he loses aggro or another mob enters the fray, hence the dance at the tonberry king and him flashing thin air on occasion). If the mob has moved towards the tank previously, that results in him facing the mob away from the group, as he stands in the spot the mob used to be and the mob moved away. But if someone else gets aggro, he'll run into the new location of the mob and try again, where the mob often retains its facing, which is towards a DPS or two. That happens a lot to me because I got an archer in the squad and he can easily rip hate off the tank with his barrage spam. There's a very high chance my tank ends up running around like a maniac and facing mobs in random directions.

Ranged characters automatically back off from mobs and melees do use positionals, which can be mistaken as dodging AoEs, but they are not sensitive to AoEs as such - at least not the cone of the ash drake, nor the breath attack of the Zix, nor poison breath of Aiatar, nor whatever the light from the Efts is called, nor the gaze attack of the Peiste, nor the blaster from the Coeurl. And those are just those with orange markers.