Quote Originally Posted by Gemina View Post
Basically, what I'm saying is I can't think of any situation where it is optimal for the healer to grab initial hate, because that is exactly what Regen does. Your tank will always have to compensate for this, and work just a little harder, even if just a shoulder shrug to get the hate off of you. Sure, your dps goes up, and the tank's goes down.
Only time I can see that being a reasonable choice, is if there is no tank because they DCed/left right as the dungeon started. Had this happen in Fractal while I was leveling my AST. Tank left right away, and the two DPS and I decided to go ahead without a tank until we got a replacement(which came in 3/4 of the way through first boss). As healer, I tried to keep agro from the majority of the mobs so that I didn't have to heal everyone constantly, and just myself.