i got a question for you dps..

[RiceisNice]

Those skills won't be up for every pull. As a machinist, I'd be concerned with the tank if I'm ripping aggro off the first target you use your ranged pull with (or any other mobs peel off and go straight for the healer or my bishop) since a ranged pull + AoE enmnity (or straight AoE even) is more than enough to ensure that a class won't pull off you, unless it's a BLM using their firestarter or bursting out of the gate with a fire IV.

The rare occasions would be massive bursts from the likes of BRD, MCH or SMN, but they have incredible wind up time that by the time it does happen, you have more than enough aggro to not lose it unless you weren't using your enmity combo. But if you're immediately losing aggro to those classes right off the bat on trash mobs (and they aren't popping cooldowns), something is wrong on your end.

That being said...

way to assume there.. i'm almost always in full tanking gear and stance.. nice example is this brd who decided to keep unloading into ultros at the start of the fight and since he dropped an aoe on me early i didn't have enuf time to properly establish threat.. i call him out on this and his response boiled down to "lol u lost aggro to a bard?" when i didn't even get a chance to use a full enmity combo yet

I'm wondering how you're dodging the AoEs if you didn't have enough time to even do a full enmity combo. I rarely ever have fights that tanks lose aggro to me immediately (and I attack on pull) unless they're undergeared (and by this, I mean they don't even have their law weapon in an expert dungeon), nor do I lose aggro on my dork knight (and I tank bosses without grit)