Yea unclassic mechanic I know. FTE is as well though. But regardless that's my ramblings and not the purpose of this post.
This is Faydedar we are talking about. I just pulled that example out to show how stupid letting trackers pull is. On more legit/desired mobs the FTE battles are even closer together. We had one of our pullers comment on Sev last time that he shouted FTE before it even appeared on our pullers screen (possibly lag on their end... But still, dumb).
I like your idea of engaging the mob where it stands to an extent. But that removes the skill/art of pulling from the game. Which is a very unique aspect of EQ that most other MMOs don't have, they just have derpfaceaggro. Now granted... Pulling Fay or Gore or Sev is no real challenge. But come Velious pulling Tormax to the zone, while it does negate part of the script, is extremely classic and extremely challenging to do quickly. You need some boss pullers to do that.
If the engage where it stands thing goes in the engages would likely end up going to which guild can group the most bards. Whereas my suggestion it would just go to which bard can zone in and get there quickest. Which seems a bit more reasonable IMO. (And doesn't require the winning guild to have 3+ bards each kill... With out broken 500 resist cap, bards are already valuable enough on raids)
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