I've been scrubbing over tons of forums looking for a good way for a paladin to pull a boss and generate the most threat right off the go. The problem I've been running into is the pally would pull and a druid would put up FF and pull or a warlock would put up a curse and pull. Is there no way for a pally to pull and generate enough threat to hold such small debuffs or does the raid truly need to hold off. I'm sure our pally pulls with Exorcism. Any help here would be great.
Exorcism has a 1.5 second cast time and it only has a 30 yard range. It's not "bad" for pulling a boss that is active waiting to be hit, if you can get in range without pulling him first. But for bosses like Goromok, or Saurfang, its a bad ability to use, because you can't start casting it until they become active.
Avenger's shield is instant and can be cast while making the pull, after that shield of righteousness and hammer of the righteous are our two biggest threat moves, and should be next, falling into the normal 969 rotation after that. For bosses that become active after the encounter has started, precast holy shield and consecrate just before the timer runs out (assuming DBM is being used), target the boss and spam shield of righteousness so it hits as soon as he becomes active.
DPS should still wait a GCD or two because if they are spamming the inactive boss and thier latency is lower than the tanks they might still pull in the opening seconds.