Trouble with Yak's Bend quests

I've searched the forums, and found a little bit of the information I need, but not all. I'm doing the Yak's Bend quests, and even if I plant the flag to keep my henchies around it, every time I try to pull a group, even with long range weapons (like a bow, or a spell that can be cast from outside the aggro circle), I always over aggro and get completely owned. This happened even when I ran through this area with my husband with my W/R- we died so many times that our dp got maxed, and he's an experienced player. The chars that I'm attempting to run through with now are a W/Mo and a R/Mo. With getting put down as much as I am, the good thing that I can say is at least I have resurect with these characters, so once I use my res signet, I can still res the healer. And of course, with the monk quest, once I die and the party gets rezzed at the shrine, Cynn's dead, so I have to go back into the outpost, abandon, and restart the quest all over again.

Any suggestions?

There are three quests at Yak's that all can be obtained at Captain Osric.
The primary you need to finish is: The Way is Blocked.
When you also have the quest The Road to Borlis Pass active, there will be more enemies around the area as far as I recall.

You should also check your armor (is it at least near the level the crafter in Yak's offers).

The quest can be done, but is somewhat hard compared to the earlier parts of the game.
I've failed it with more experienced players when I started the game because of my habbit of taking all quests at once.

Good luck finishing it.

Thanks, I'll try that.