This exact situation happened with my buddy and I the other day. All the other guys (mostly) wanted to do was try and push him off. After a while with Atheon, I finally bitched and said let's just try killing him, you know, considering we get these crazy damage multipliers and we've gotten good and staying alive. 3-4 deaths later, we had it beat. Everyone was impressed with how easy that was, just killing him...... sigh. Most people seemed to be more interested in beating games these days, instead of playing them.