... but I think I'll go back to Dragon after having been Harmonious for three days. I loved every bit of it and was looking forward to my debuffs aiding with taking down Enraged X-83, but tonight's raid taught me that:
- Stone Dragon Stance
- Sun Dragon's Corona
are really valuable assets to have in the entry wing. I died upon pulling the two fire-based mobs by the archway before the door behind which you'll find the cable rail. Not just once, a couple of times in a row. This and other experiences in the Entry Wing have led to the following questions:

- How can you get your fire resist to above 430 for those mobs, being Harmonious? Is there specific gear I could go for?

- Is there a trick to FD pulling with the 4 mob bug gone? It seems like it's entirely random now. If I get lucky enough for one mob to start its casting animation while the others don't and time FD precisely right, I can split that one off. But nothing else works - Deadly Adder Hand or Feet of the Fire Dragon don't help to keep one mob stuck on you.  Limiting line of sight doesn't speed up or slow their advance since they'll walk right through the walls anyway. They don't have random walking paces. Secret of Ice doesn't make sure one of them walks slower towards its bind point. Any advice to make it less like Russian roulette with 5 bullets loaded?

I'd really hate to have to abandon the Harmonious way in order to succeed at pulling. Fujitsu, you're Drunken, right? Are you pulling? How? How'd you get your resists up? Anyone else that's been able to pull for Entry Wing and beyond that could shed some light on the situation?

Cheers,

Khana

I'am harmonious and do some of the hard pulls/split in raid.
Your most usefull item would be the legend range weapon from Sleeping Moon. cos of the 40m range.
Allso I have a macro that take me into defence stance and equip all my defence items aswell.

At hard pulls I use the 3 defence buffs, and monk jump to the raid for fast running..

I have no problems with the pulling atm, but found it very hard until I got hold of the legend range weapon from Sleeping Moon.

Good Luck on Your pulls and furture splits.

Casting mobs just plain suck to pull. As a drunken i pull for our guild with 1 other monk , although sometimes im the only one on and have to do it solo.Tricks i have found? Use doors  and timing to get one in one side of door and other mob on other then fd..usually gets one  waiting for door to close then reopen,,also i just LOS it  around corners , boxes,crates and whatever i can find..usualy this takes  a few fd/repull but one usually casts  and stays put for about 10 secs,and sometimes if ya play with them enough you can get seperation while the patch to and from you.Honestly the 2 monk method is the most efficiant way to pull ,I understand that  it cant be this way for everyone and i hope/pray SOE does add the pause on static mobs or  different pathing way back to spawn.
Hope some of my tricks help or give ya ideas.
BTW some casters are not real casters and you can evade the attack(pyromaniacs for example..they range you  with fire damage but it is still melee damage..also some of the elemental mobs  are not casters ..the Cold mobs for example  you can evade their attacks.

Okay, line of sight will keep you from being one-shotted. But it's all random as to actually splitting them, right? You just have to make use of pathing bugs, if I understand correctly, to pull a *little* more consistently?

Law prohibits me from telling you all the strats but the one i use for the generic pull i can share.

All pulls require 2 people (2 monks is ideal, at least one is a harmonious or drunken)

Least ideal is Drunken monk + Necro (never make a disciple pull they are healers)

Harmonious monk tosses up iron skin (75% mitigation) and self invulnerable buff and tags right mob.
Necro waits for harmonious monk to tag, once the 2-3 mobs agro necro tags ONE mob with a dot/nuke so that it chases him, this mob CANNOT be the same mob the harmonious tagged.
Necro gets NEAR the camp and main tank tags it, soon as main tank tags, both pullers FEIGN. 


Key points:
1) DONT heal the person who brings the mob to camp
2) watch for fails, if the necros fd fails its bad mojo and he needs to run out of the camp and far away so the other mobs dont run to him.
3) DONT heal the person who brings the mob to camp (this includes bard songs)
4) Dieing happens, a lot, its a pullers job to die 10-20 times a raid so the raid doesnt have to die. 
5) DONT heal the person who brings the mob to camp!

to add, uppercuts thinking static groups of mobs can always be split. Grouped roamers cannot be split.

N yes i agree pulling isnt just dumb luck it requires skill.

I know about all of this. Okay, thanks for confirming it, then.