The Pubbie Point of View

[Kevin]

I love highspeed pulls as any of you guys can testify to when I have been in baron/ubrs runs with Anadrol :)
And I second MJ's thoughts on skipping pulls.
When there is proximity risk I never skip unless I play with very competent people. And even then its sketchy, as someone may lag/disconnect and train the party and wipe us.
As Alrin, I rely on my stamina to take a few hits if say the priest gets aggro and cant shed it with fade. I will gladly hit the mob with PoM+pyro and fireblast to get its attention then step off and snare it until the tank gets it. During that time having aggro, I have no problems taking a hit or two because I have the hp's to support it.

I am also a big fan of chainpulling. It is extremely nice as it eliminates that whole "sitting around and waiting" period between pulls. It also kills entirely that "ready? ready? ready?" junk you see in some PuGs.

Anadrol ftw! I actually pulled an UBRS run with Telsak the other week Anadrol-style and the raid was impressed :)
I told them I had learned from the best, hehe.
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If I have another warrior around that I trust I pull like this now too. A hunter would be quite good at pulling like this too, though getting aggro from another warriors shot takes a lot less effort than getting aggro from a hunters shot because of the RAP differences. But yeah pull it dump it off on an warrior. When it's controled or close to dead go pull another one. I actually play my hunter solo or in the duo with Treesh a lot. Meowry has it and it's nearly dead, peg the next one, tell Meowry to go get it, land a few more shots in the original unload on the new target. If Meowry is too hurt and or mana or focus is too low or Treesh needs a breather I wait but we can get in quite a smack smack smack rythm as can a solo hunter. Sometimes the pull is send the cat after the new target and let her drag the one I'm hammering with her for a bit too, depends on what I'm fighting and positions. :) Heck with spirit bond sometimes the best way is to have her kill a mob that I've done damage to while I kill another one melee or ranged (if it shots) while spirit bond gets me 30 (new rank at L50 last night!) hp a second back (yes meowry attacks that fast). That healing of me the cat does is also a very nice aggro generator for her too. :)

But yeah in places that everyone has been before, speed pulling is great. If the new players want to rubber neck and such then it is one of the worst things you can do to that player. Of course some people don't care and you can chain pull with people who have never been there before and they will be happy as clams too. Of course since most pubby groups don't seem to care about how other people feel and what they want to experience this isn't usually a concern for them.