It's a solid plan. With 33 Defense, even a maxed out Star Burst will only hit for 52 (or 55 if you've got a Soften from Torrent).
Figured out what's delaying the Journal window updates. There's a "cooldown" variable in the plugin that purposely waits so many ticks before refreshing the window. I lowered that, as it was set to an excessively high value; you should be able to flip through your quests much faster now.
Pharoarchers don't have any special graphical effects that might cause some kind of graphics issue, but I'm not sure what would have caused it, aside from maybe lag on your system. I'll go ahead and release another minor fix in just a bit with the Journal and Winning Streak patched, but I'll also keep an eye out for any issues when tabbing.