This fight turned out to not be a terribly difficult fight
We died multiple times
Something doesn't add up here! The Elder was a great fight. The first time we beat him on our server we didn't check the area and were flooded with Greylings and Greydwarfs from three different spawners. We thought it was a part of the fight andI have to say it was really epic. 20+ enemies and more coming in addition to the boss. The fact that the shamans were healing the boss didn't exactly help. Eventually we realized it may not be intentional and we ran off to take down the spawners during the fight.
We had an experienced player who insisted we kill some spawners first. We still ended up with some adds later but it was few and we were many! Lol