Now, I do want to do the eagle boss trash in the legitimate way, but I've been stealing the knowledge from some other guilds with a few runs as my hunter Efalindrahn and a few as Alphatrion, and I've seen the evil ways that players use to get around the wicked gauntlet as well as how it's properly done.

It's all about mob control, each time I've seen it done properly there was a protection warrior, a feral druid, and a protection paladin leading the way. The warrior and druid each taunt every troll they suspect is loose, and the paladin grabs all the birds along with ...whatever troll he sees is loose. The protectors are sort of a pain, as their dps is sort of high. The thing that makes it hard is that birds keep on spawning until the tempest at the end of the gauntlet is slain. So you want to reach the tempest as quickly as possible to stop all the madness.

Below the stairs and the eagle gauntlet area itself is a small lake that's out of harm's way. It is here that the trick can be done. You take the raid to the shore of this lake and get a hunter to target the tempest. The hunter then sends his pet in and aggros the tempest. If done amazingly the tempest will come alone. If done ok'ishly the tempest will come with two other troll guards (I think one time 3 came, making the fight four in total). 

If done this way, you march up through the eagle gauntlet killing two npcs at a time easily, then you kill the eagle boss himself who is essentially simple as long as everyone's quick to react to the fight's FlameWreathish trait.