From my experience, Fascinate didn’t work very well – if at all. I do not even remember Disco working that well.

Best thing you can do is, doing all the optionals outside of the arena (gaining allies and removing potential foes).

That saves you some stress, when you have some NPCs fighting along side with you – instead of having them stabbing you (from my experience)

My successful EE runs consisted of “one” person (mostly Intimi Meatshield) grabbing the aggro of everything in there – and running in circles, while the others grab one foe after another – eating away the heaviest forces.

That’s also less stressy on the mages and healers. But in sum – everyone has to keep moving.

The most feared run through the acid is not that worse (I found the arena worse), if you have a decent buffer/healer with you who keeps up the resists and protection on a constant base.

All in all, it’s a nasty quest and everyone who manages it at EE can be proud of his toon and gaming skills. It’s a very demanding quest imho.

Any type of cc is handy in that quest, can go multiple routes, sorc with fog and kite, Wiz with Otto’s, but due to being drow web is a great spell in there, also mass hold can dictate the mobs the melees go for, as a bard I was just fascinating groups/spawns of mobs away from the main group, once melees cleared could then just move onto fasc mobs, other way is an intim but due to the volume of the mobs any meat shield will take some damage so best to intim/kite, other methods are a fvs evoker using bb as high dc to kite, monk using EIN at right time can easily kill 20+ mobs in 1 go, Draconic blasts nice damage etc…

If the melees stay together too it helps a gr8 deal, by casting cc any intelligent melee will fight in that area on ee.

Without any of the above or some degree of cc this quest in the arena is very very hard, due to volume of ee mobs melees will easily get swamped, try and move away, you then have a split group for the healer with noone really contributing any damage.

Again all on group build and if the toons are on the right destinies (imo should always be on ee), have done an EE pug on Pally and was like an EN run mainly due to caster cc in right place at right time, another run a really fast wipe in arena due to most melees not being able to take a hit and no cc.