This Thing You Call Aggro.

[Treesh]

As I mentioned to GG, if it's just one mob it's not an issue; if there's more than one, I'm not about to ignore the secondary mob who's had minimal hate generated against him... because the minute you have to start healing the mage that secondary mob's coming for you, and then all of a sudden it's a moot point because protecting you takes precedence.

If I can get a taunt off in time to yank the mob back before he even gets to the mage, that's a different story altogether, of course.  I'm just not going to run around like a chicken with my head cut off to save someone who's gotten over-exuberant when there's still a threat to the healer sitting out there who's still only marginally pissed at me.
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If the mage isn't AoEing, the secondary mob doesn't even know the mage exists. It may know the healer exists because of healing the tank, but it's not going to pull to me by healing the mage/rogue. The first mob that the mage (or rogue) pulled will possibly be coming after me when I heal the mage, but it just depends on how much that mage angered it. ;) With Littledude and Sabra, if they've pulled aggro when AoEing, my shields and heals on the mages aren't going to pull aggro to me (most of the time) because the amount of threat they generated to get it away from Gnolack is far more than what I'm generating by healing unless GG just sits there and doesn't try to pull aggro from any elites that may have decided to try to eat the mages. The non-elites die quickly enough to dual mage AoE that it's not too much of an issue. Usually, he's gotten the elites locked down tight enough though that they don't run to the mages. Part of that is our mages holding off to give him the time to lock aggro and part of that is him working to make sure all the elites are locked on him. It takes a lot of threat to pull stuff off of Gnolack when he's working to hold it. He even managed to hold it fairly well against that DPS monster Sommli when we were playing in the Blasted Lands. (Although Sommli has gotten a better dagger since then. ;) )

Now, a bad luck streak of misses and parries can throw a monkey wrench into the works, but honestly warriors can hold aggro pretty easily against a lot of critters as long as the DPS monkeys just give them a short amount of time to do it in. If the DPS monkey is constantly pulling aggro, talk to them about it. Don't just do the "I'm going to let him die" UNLESS you have cleared it with your healer first. If the healer agrees to let the monkey die to teach him a lesson, fine. Sometimes that's the only way people will learn. But if your healer is still trying to keep the DPS dealer alive, you had better work at keeping the DPS monkey alive too or you're not only going to piss off the monkey, you're going to aggravate your healer too and whether or not it's your fault, you'll still be blamed for it and tarnish your rep. And rep does matter in MMOs.