It has been my experience to avoid the AoE's and specials (cones, radials, etc) when speedrunning. Makes heals happy, happy heals = smooth run imo. For first pull in bray HM, I grab everything and run to the log just past the bridge, staying outside range of dirty bush and monkey. Going there eliminates the big bomb from the gobbie tank, then I'll position my camera overhead and zoomed out so i can see all those lovely special indicators, move as needed, but stay as tight as you can. The better the mobs are grouped the faster the DPS can burn them down. After that first pull, the rest of the trash pulls are just standing there, no moving.

If you don't stay out of AoE's and get an unfortunate chain of crits and fall, well we all know what happens next. WHAAAA! So the DPS can suck it up for one pull so you all can proceed.

Just how I do it and my thoughts on it.

Syn