Originally Posted by seminarca

Wow, that's cool. You're in quite a unique position having successfully tanked 2 so called impossible fights, I wish to leech info from you. Please indulge me. Before we begin, bear in mind I've only done the Kael encounter once for about 90 minutes of learning (up to Ph3 only), and haven't seen RoS or Illidan at all.

k, from my understanding of the Kael fight, you need a Warrior wearing the legendary shield to absorb the first of 3 pyroblasts he casts. He casts a magical shield on himself which must be burned down asap (80k hp?). He can't be interrupted while the magical shield is active.

So what a Warrior does is: click his legendary shield, absorbing the first pyroblast, by the time the 2nd is due, Kael's magical shield has been burned through, and then the next 2 pyroblasts are interrupted through standard interrupt mechanisms. Is this accurate?

And so what you're describing for a Druid is: Barkskin when he starts casting, and eat the first pyroblast outright, reduced to 20k from the normal 25k, then when Kael's shield is burned through, the next 2 pyroblasts are interrupted as normal. Is this accurate?

If so, the Druid is taking a 20k pyroblast, whilst the Warrior is absorbing it via the shield, taking no damage (I presume). Does the shield absorb the entire spell? Isn't that basically an extra 20k damage the Druid is taking? Help me understand what I'm missing here >< (re: the less damage part).

For RoS, Warriors need to Spell Reflect Deaden, which makes RoS take double damage. So if I understand you right, if you don't reflect it, then it must be interrupted (or else you'll take double damage, is that accurate?). So if the raid is successfully able to interrupt all the other spells, plus the Deaden, then the only drawback to using a Druid is not having Deaden on RoS for the extra damage. Is that the case? Is it a fatal blow to raid dps by not having Deaden reflected, any enrage timer or something that won't be met?

Thanks =D