This quest in particular has you being accompanied by Ebyssian and Sabellian. Ebyssian basically melees and casts an AOE taunt every 2 seconds. Now while this might be nice for clothies, especially with all the elites, it leads to a problem.
The Primalist Crustbreakers (NPC ID 199980) cast 4 stone totems around them, that make the Crustbreaker immune to all damage until the totems are killed. Now most people would just kite the mobs away from the pylons, but this is impossible, even if you taunt the mobs, because Ebyssian just taunts back every 3 seconds while your taunt is on an 8 second CD. So I am forced to do 400k damage to the totems every 30 seconds for each Crustbreaker because I cannot taunt them out of range of the totems.
Here is the suggestion for this and all other quests where an NPC defaults to a tank:
Allow us to choose whether Ebyssian (or whatever other NPC is part of the quest) is DPS, Healer, or Tank like you used to do back in the day when I start the quest rather than just defaulting to him being a mindless tank just spamming AOE taunt without a care in the world about actual mechanics you make us deal with, and if I choose to move and taunt a mob off of them, they should at the very least follow me, not taunt them right back to where I was moving them from. Or…at the very least, reduce the HP, or amount of totems the Crustbreakers spawn.
The quest isn’t hard, the mechanics aren’t hard, neither are the mobs - it is the mindless taunting Ebyssian is doing that is causing the problem.