How to deal with vengeful lyricist?

[TheFishyOne]

Alright, I stopped playing about 30min ago, took a chill pill, and now feel I have de-raged enough to post on this. =)

As a newbie barb Shammy (lvl 2) how do you avoid getting constantly creamed by the vengeful lyricist? I'm level 2, and lost count of how many corpse runs I did after 4, but all of them were the result of this dude jamming on me, usually while fighting something else. It would seem to me that the powers that be would not put something this dangerous to newbies in a newbie zone, and have him frequently path in front of the only way in or out of town. I fully understand and appreciate that this is Classic EQ, but it doesn't seem logical to me that a game developer would put a no-win scenario in a gamer's path right when he's literally coming out of the gate. =P

The way I figure, there IS a solution, and I just haven't caught onto it yet. So, if any veteran barb shammies could give me some advice on how to deal with this dude, it would be much appreciated.