I used the "attack off" macro a little, but I preferred doing it manually and found better success by being more hands-on and not relying on feigning while face-to-face with the mob.
From playing a Monk into 60+epic+Kunark high end content, I find it's most effective not to feign in their face. If it's possible at all, FD away from the mob or jump away from them while feigning to get a little bit of distance. Bursts of lag can cause it to fail sometimes, and that space gives you a buffer against that, although that's even more rare than "falling to the ground" failures beyond 40ish. Be a pathing genius, and know exactly where you can get extra space from the mob before feigning. Pathing also affects how you can split mobs.
If possible, it's also really effective to feign behind where a mob spawns so they return to spawn point more quickly, clear you on their hate list completely, and turn around to their default facing position. You can then turn on sneak and stand up and bandage 2 feet behind them or whatever if they're a static mob, etc...this was very effective in lguk.
In short, try to combine feign with another force multiplier to evade your enemy. It will usually work straight-up (as long as you turn off autoattack), but relying on it in the wrong way in the wrong situations can work out very badly.
One of my favorite ways of using it was to find ledges to jump off so I could feign mid-air and get a lot of distance from the mob. That way, if it failed, it was a lot easier to buy time to try a second FD. IIRC, fall damage does not un-do your FD (at least I distinctly remember it not doing that when I FD-jumped from really high areas).
This is kind of an aside since I don't know your playstyle (you might have played a monk further than I did, and i'm sure there are better monks than I was on this server), and I never did high-end content beyond Velious, and very little of Velious at that. But I did a lot of pulling and was very successful at it during the Kunark era.
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