is there a better way of handling those?
Mêlée! Seriously!

Well, for shammies at least it really is a serious option. I wouldn't fancy my chances as, say, a mage.

I stopped wasting mana on spells that would be resisted (due to most of my kills being orange/red) a loooong time ago. I just melee everything down now. It's a piece of cake for questing / levelling where everything conveniently stands still for you

I've had zero downtime since I started using that method, and just 5xshock the runners... which are most "walkers" because they invariably have the frostbrand debuff on them by the time they figure it's time to bug out.

AQ40... *shudder*... I have many memories of that damn place. Giant mind-controlled guildies coming at me with both blades flashing, hitting the wrong "mirror image"... ugh. And bugs! BUGS! Who wants to kill insects?! I want to kill dragons!

Thank God I'll never have to set foot in that place again