I've found that to be generally the case for puddle-management, game-wide. I do it with strafe keys though, and only follow through certain weird encounters (Ick and Crick's mines, Drakkari Colossus). I did the entire game to 80 + heroics before I realized that it's a hell of a lot easier to strafe everyone out of one puddle, than directly move one toon out.
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