I feel your pain. My pal/4x shammy team ran into him last night (at level 70 no less) and wiped around 6 times. I tried a few strats, and got him to 38% at one point. I feel it can be done with the right amount of luck, but I don't think I have the patience to keep burning repair bills on him when I'm trying to save for flying mounts. My next run through AC, I'm going to just run right by him as far as I can, then reincarnate/resurrect the group. I'll skip him until I'm way overgeared later, but not the instance.