Toto, Haukke, and emo-land (cutters cry) are much better than DD and AV. DD takes forever. AV you are looking at wipes unless all 4 people aren't stupid.

First room of AV going into the boss, I run through the middle and avoid aggro for the plants on the left and right, 90% of the time a party member runs left to avoid poison and gets aggro, and a different party member runs right to avoid poison and gets aggro. And that ends in a much better result than the first boss most of the time.