I took out Don Barlone earlier, and the Canned Elemental is a very good strategy, but the only problem is that the Don is so powerful that he often annihilates the elemental without breaking a sweat. You have to make the Don easier to hit, because the Elementals may not be very accurate, but when they connect they hit VERY hard. Thats their strength. So to encourage hits, armor melt helps, however many people don't have Armormelt at this point, so another way to tilt the odds in your favor is blessing the elemental (cast bless when near it), enchanted blade, and most importantly, have the elemental attack Barlone's back. This makes him about three times easier to hit, and do more damage, too. How do you accomplish this? Get the Don to fight you in the doorway, and then release the canned elemental directly behind him. He will turn to fight the elemental and his back will be to you, so you can beat him up, OR he will try killing you, and the elemental will have his back.
Either way, you'll be doing a hell of alot more damage, and should be able to kill him before he does any serious harm.
He dropped the cane the first time I took him down, and I was very satisfied, that weapon simply rules. Oh, he had the Astral Dominae on him too =)
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