Wow that is all there is to holding the gaze. I was a titan so I was down in the pit with a PUG group dropping blinding weapons of light defender wards to provide more damage and help keep the thrall off us and the 2 guys we had doing the gaze kept dying and losing it all the time. Gave them credit for it being tough but damn I don't know what the problem was as they seriously failed to pass the gaze every second time.