Now it is coming back to me. Pulling with a damaging spell or ability in EQ1 would put a aggro circle out equal to your aggro range which would sometimes be real bad. I guess the same mechanic was kept in EQ2.
Exactly - when body pulling - don't even go into autoattack as even an AAtk swing can cause surrounding mobs to be social - pulling with a bow or spell is just asking for trouble in some dungeons - I have also noticed that simple procs like sporescan cause mobs to be social as well

In BB with the gnolls, your fine, higher up - won't be a good look

Be aware also that the geometry in some dungeons is pretty primative in that fire off a lose AOE and your bound to pull stuff through walls causing all sorts of trouble

If you have a brawler for a MT, you can FD pull, just make sure you tag the mob you want to keep after the FD

Soothe is a quick way to get around a dungeon if you don't have something like smuggle or group invis - basically, your charging along, see a roamer coming towards you, fire off a soothe, run past it /rinse reapt till you get to where you want to be