Okay so I went gnomes, currently at level 18. The damage is... redonkulous! I am definitly loving the challenge. I tried deadmines at level 16, had quite a few deaths. I tried to set up ISBoxer with the mages assigning raid symbols for individual sheeping then realized I can't complete the quest objective in a raid group, so I need to figure out another way to do this while not in a raid group. Anyways after dying a bit I just started manually assigning raid icons and having the individual mages focus on thier icon before the pull and this made a world of difference. Made it all the way past the shredder boss then got too tired to continue for the night.

The biggest thing that made it difficult was my level and the bad to-hit on the elite mobs. Will try again soon and destroy some baddies