Why Speed Pulls?

[Malevicton]

So I don't really mind how people get their kicks in game (I don't even judge what certain people do on certain rp servers >.>), but I just want to point out one specific idea that keeps recurring in this thread and others like it: the "I like slow pulls because I enjoy the dungeon" mentality. There's nothing really wrong with it, except that you're assuming I'm not having fun with large pulls. Large pulls are more efficient, but that doesn't mean efficiency is 100% of why people do them. I find them much more fun and engaging, personally.

To reiterate, it's perfectly fine if you don't enjoy the game the same way I do, but please don't assume that just because I like big pulls I must be some sort of brain-dead tome-bot.

[ChameleonMS]

Large pulls are more efficient

This is only true if the group can handle the pull size. Yesterday, during duty expert, playing as my WHM i103, tank WAR i120ish, DPS were a BRD i115ish and NIN about i110ish. The tank was doing large pulls.
AoE burn is not sufficient in this group for large pulls. My healer just isn't strong enough to keep up with pulls that size and the NIN did not seem to understand how to dodge attacks.
We suffered two complete wipes on trash, and I had raise the NIN at least 3 other times during the run. This constant attention needing to be paid to a DPS, meant the tank was getting far too low on health on a repeated basis. Did the tank slow down? Nope, just kept pulling and pulling.

It was a very inefficient run as a result. The saving grace was no one was bickering in the chat. We all just endured and moved on with life.