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.

When I speak optimal, I'm talking the entire party. Not just my own.
Except the tank's dps doesn't go down. Tomahawk/shield lob/Unmend hit before the regen tick goes off and there's absolutely no way to grab hate in savage scenarios off a single regen unless the tank is terrible. In all situations pre-pull regens is the most optimal way to start a pull, just depends on how good a tank is at timing their aggro skills.