Same problem here, US PVE server 2503, combat part of game is unplayable. Sure, I enjoy collecting iron all day as much as any other girl, but it would be awesome to survive a croc fight…
Apparently you have to “manually” fight them without locking. Which, again makes combat unplayable. I’m not sure how well aware they are. Apparently it’s caused by the debuffs. For some weird reason.