It's so nice to get a PUG like that! Everything just seems to synergise and even the dumbest, most nooby moves don't seem as awful. :D
RE: the aggro thing, the way I understand it (and this might be completely wrong, hobviously) is that in a chain pull the extra dudes are alerted to the whole party and in that first instant use the group aggro table to judge their threat, so if you're at the top of the aggro table because of your DPS, they'll target you until the tank overcomes your threat rating with his own. I think it works different depending on how you pull, too, so if a tank uses an AOE ability/taunt to pull then you won't get that split second of OH SHIT WHY ARE THEY COMING FOR ME fun.
And as an aside, I saw a video the Ret paladin "rotation" (for want of a better word) in 4.0.1. It certainly looks...lively.
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RE: the aggro thing, the way I understand it (and this might be completely wrong, hobviously) is that in a chain pull the extra dudes are alerted to the whole party and in that first instant use the group aggro table to judge their threat, so if you're at the top of the aggro table because of your DPS, they'll target you until the tank overcomes your threat rating with his own. I think it works different depending on how you pull, too, so if a tank uses an AOE ability/taunt to pull then you won't get that split second of OH SHIT WHY ARE THEY COMING FOR ME fun.
And as an aside, I saw a video the Ret paladin "rotation" (for want of a better word) in 4.0.1. It certainly looks...lively.