I did it solo and i was proud that i did. I initially died 3 times i think. But it forced me to figure out a way to beat him. I did not want to wait to 60 like some suggested or such. And i beat him with my own Hanzo Sword too. Trick was since he usually took up my screen looking at Blazerunner it was a bit hard to sometime see when his aura was up, too much eye movement for me.

So what i did was if i can keep his shield constantly dispelled i could own him. And thats what i did. I faced him inside the cave with back to wall do no distance knock back and i constantly clicked to dispell his shield and i just unloaded everything i had on him including keeping consecration up while i hit him. I got him then, no problem. Or i should say I SOLO’d HIM even better. I hate asking for help if i can help it!

Also, in a way, the fact that fire, water, storm, arcane, and shadow elementals don’t do physical damage (thus are unblockable) actually means that people can tank them in raids. If the blow isn’t physical, it isn’t mitigated by armor and shouldn’t crush (there have been errors in programming that cause them to crush, but they get fixed later). If they did crush that would mean you couldn’t load up on the appropriate resist you need to survive on them, because you’d need the normal gamut of avoidance gear you need for physical damage.

This is one of the examples of places where paladins really won’t shine. Since a large percent of our threat is generated by reactive abilities to physical damage, that means on non-physical damage centric mobs, we get smacked around pretty hard, while at the same time generating unfortunately low threat. A potential way to fix this would be some sort of reflective spell. Like you chose a certain element and were able to reflect any type of damage of that type. But in the mean time, there is nothing like that, so we remain tanks for physical mobs, for the most part.