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Yes, I thought the monk was splitting linked mobs.

I could be fuzzy on this, but the behavioral difference would be, for example, with the use of a lull, if you pulled the primary target out of social aggro range, a faction assisting mob would forget about it, but a linked mob would come anyway--which is why FD was used. Not sure why it worked that way, but that seemed to be the effect in practice.

FD pulling in EQ was very slow and boring, at least for everyone besides the monk. In early EQ, lull was too unreliable, so you really didn't have much choice. But once they fixed lull, you were better off with a bard or enchanter as a puller, especially whenever time was a factor. I loved pulling LDONs with my enchanter, though if there was a monk in the group, we always had to have an argument first.

It was possible to FD pull in Vanguard, but it required different techniques than EQ. My discs would hit a mob with a snare right before I FD'd; then when I stood up he would be far enough from his unsnared friends to pull. I especially liked pairing a feign puller with a rogue, who could Blackjack one of the incoming mobs right before the FD. My monk (my second highest level character after my psi) never really got the hang of FD pulling. Other monks I knew claimed they could do it regularly, but I only succeeded at it intermittently.

In EQ I found that a chanter+monk was a great pull team (I was the chanter). That way if something went horribly wrong the monk could just drop all of it. We got so good at it that we didn't even need to talk about it. We just started chain pulling. Oh how I miss those days.

Druid does the same thing twice. Both with tree form and then that aurora burst or whatever it is that resets the whole encounter (then you still have invuln). I was never that good at it as a monk either but some people could nail it. Because it seemed to be a significant element of gameplay and was something that not everyone could do well, I'd really like to see it emulated closely for the monk mains out there.