Scrappers and damage/taunt auras

It's probably just differing perceptions of the same events, but I feel like I get stuff running all the time on my Dark Armor. I WOULD blame it on my damage being comparatively sucky (bad scrapper, no biscuit), but even when I'm pumped to the gills on reds on a farm, stuff still runs. Heck, sometimes they run, come back, take a tick from my damage aura, says "screw that" and run again. Level 54 Rikti Soldiers are running for chrissakes. Don't they know how much damage their frickin' swords do in melee?

Granted, it's par for the course, and I'm not any more annoyed than my general annoyance at running enemies in MMOs - it's just so RUDE of them to not stand there and let me kill them! And I could instead be playing one of my toons that DOES have a taunt aura, but I'm enjoying my Dark Armor more at the moment despite the running. But yeah, if Death Shroud had a taunt effect, it would be even more betterful.

Lts run away at like .1% health and bosses at about 10% or so, usually 4 or 5 per spawn, yeah it's annoying chasing them all over the place, on every single mob. That's a Spines/Elec using Quills, Lightning Field, Spine Burst and Throw Spines

IF the question is why is it some scrapper secondaries get taunt effects and others don't please see above. I wish I could remember which red name it was but of course that was quite some time ago. If I do recall correctly though a red name stated they only added taunt to powers that buff the scrapper. So if you get a damage buff based on enemys being near you the devs offset that buff with the taunt aura. The taunt almost being used as a penalty to balance the buff.

I wouldn't mind seeing this looked at but I doubt this will ever change.

Yes, but I wouldn't compare confront to Taunt or any of the other powers that have taunt aspects in them because the purpose of confront is to pull a baddie off of a friend if they get in a bind, not to pull baddies to you so you can take the damage or in the aura's case fulfill designated role. I'm not trying to argue friend, I just agree and disagree with the reasoning behind it. Carry on man.

Wait, wait. We have a developer that thinks that a taunt is a penalty? That it's bad for you because of the extra damage that will come your way? OK, there are aspects of truth to that, and I realize some people might see it this way, but a dev? That's a pretty amusing take on what I would consider a major buff.

Still, OK, I can live with that explanation if it's true:

"Hey, devs! Please buff up the damage auras? Maybe cut the endurance in half? As everyone knows, the endurance on those damage auras is just unfair. They could really use a buff. What? You'd need to add a taunt effect to it to balance it out? OUCH. Man, that'll suck. That's a whole lot of aggro. That's going to make it hard to survive, particularly on teams. Wow. Boy. Tough decision. Really tough. But yeah, OK. I guess it's worth it for me to stop bottoming out my blue bar. Do it if you must."

*crosses fingers* *whistles innocently*

I didn't read that whole thread -- did we actually get a Dev confirmation that it's unintended?