As much as I like seeing all this green the past couple days, 1-2% daily moves on the indexes in either direction is just not sustainable. I'm going to continue to sit in indexes until it all settles down.
Haligtree is optional and higher level than Farum. You can do Haligtree anytime where as Farum will move the story forward and lock out certain parts of the game
Phase 2 is easier if you ride around behind him and wack on his foot. He'll roll away instead of attacking, rinse repeat. Just have to juke a little bit away if he can get in a swing before you get back behind him.