if you're pulling with provoke then that's mainly your problem, the mob needs to recognize people on its hate table to properly distribute hate. The first action basically gets completely nullified in terms of hate. Just melee > voke/wardrum(if multi-mobs)

Yes get taunt from pug, its only lvl 10 and takes about 30 mins to get to, lol just 5 star the lvl 1 leves and you'll be getting 1k+ sp.