Budget ubers

Seamus McNugget wrote: 2 years ago

I found a neat site that lets you fiddle with builds. I statted this out, do you think it would be enough? (I have most of this, but still need to buy the

Flail and the gloves)

https://d2.maxroll.gg/d2planner/dr01067g

That would end poorly. A few key issues you need to correct:

• 75% block is mandatary, throw Spirit away (or keep it on swap for prebuff).
  Stormshield is often recommended but you are already at 37% DR with
  Verdungo's Hearty Cord +
  Fade. Sanctuary and
  Moser's Blessed Circle socketed with 2
  Perfect Diamond are your best options. You'll need to invest points in dex, with your armor choice you should still have a comfortable life pool.

• Your attack rating is too low, you won't leech enough life if you miss too often. Getting more dex for 75% block will increase your AR a bit. You should end up with at least 10k AR, preferably 15k. The higher level you are, the less AR you need. AR charms are inexpensive and effective (a single 120 AR charm end up adding ~1k AR after
  Dragon Talon's multiplier).

• Über Mephisto has a lvl20
  Conviction aura, that's -125 all res. You need 200 uncapped lightning res, other res aren't as important. Simplest way to get there is to stack a bunch of lightning res charms.

• I'd recommend 20 points in
  Death Sentry, it'll make clearing trash before
  Izual/
  Duriel/
  Lilith a breeze.

Once these issues are resolved you are good to go (as long as you don't pull the 3 at the same time).

FWIW, if the torch is more important to you ("you" no one in particular, just people reading this) than proving you can beat ubers with your favorite build, it's frankly easiest to just roll a smiter. I have beaten them with my weapon accidentally set to my swap (

Life Tap

Wand). Smiter is the ultimate budget uber build. The only absolute requirement is a

Life Tap

Wand, max

Smite, max

Holy Shield, and a fair amount of patience.

Seamus McNugget wrote: 2 years ago

Hello all,

I recently took 3x3 keys and killed all those minibosses but am worried my summoner won't have the damage for the Ubers themselves. What is a budget build that could take ubers down? I want to be able to get my own torches

Cheapest and Best Option is a Smiter Pala.

Simply because

Smite always hits.

Just get a Resource for

Life Tap.
LT

Wand or Draculs are fine for that.

Grab a Black Runeword for Crushing blow.

Raven Frost Ring for Cannot be Frozen.

Rest of the Gear is Just Massive Life and Resist stacking.
Light and Fire especially.

Cast or Procc Lifetap and that's it.

Use Fanatisicm Aura and GG

Farmed all my Torches without Problems with that setup.

And don't forget Open Wounds!

OK let's correct my Post and add Gorerider

Boots

Zelym wrote: 2 years ago

Seamus McNugget wrote: 2 years ago

I found a neat site that lets you fiddle with builds. I statted this out, do you think it would be enough? (I have most of this, but still need to buy the

Flail and the gloves)

https://d2.maxroll.gg/d2planner/dr01067g

That would end poorly. A few key issues you need to correct:

• 75% block is mandatary, throw Spirit away (or keep it on swap for prebuff).
  Stormshield is often recommended but you are already at 37% DR with
  Verdungo's Hearty Cord +
  Fade. Sanctuary and
  Moser's Blessed Circle socketed with 2
  Perfect Diamond are your best options. You'll need to invest points in dex, with your armor choice you should still have a comfortable life pool.

• Your attack rating is too low, you won't leech enough life if you miss too often. Getting more dex for 75% block will increase your AR a bit. You should end up with at least 10k AR, preferably 15k. The higher level you are, the less AR you need. AR charms are inexpensive and effective (a single 120 AR charm end up adding ~1k AR after
  Dragon Talon's multiplier).

• Über Mephisto has a lvl20
  Conviction aura, that's -125 all res. You need 200 uncapped lightning res, other res aren't as important. Simplest way to get there is to stack a bunch of lightning res charms.

• I'd recommend 20 points in
  Death Sentry, it'll make clearing trash before
  Izual/
  Duriel/
  Lilith a breeze.

Once these issues are resolved you are good to go (as long as you don't pull the 3 at the same time).

I was assuming i would have to fill it out with some other charms, i just populated a few i good ones i knew i had. I also happen to have a mosers (I habitually horde anything i think looks decent) i retooled the skill a bit as well.

https://d2.maxroll.gg/d2planner/580106tn

So looking at

Stormlash, it is pretty expensive and there aren't very many on the market right now. so i am thinking of shifting gears to a Black in a three socket

Scourge. I noticed this on the database page. How can i cube it to lower its Ilevel to 1 so i can gurantee 3 sockets at

Larzuk?

You can get a 3 socket

Flail to acti II normal

Fara vendor. just use wp to leave town and come back until she sells one.

Looks good! Once the last lightning res charms are added (can also socket

Ort/

Um in

Guillaume's Face if you have a

Larzuk quest available) you can fill your inventory with the life and attack rating charms you have.
Your setup is better than the one I had first time I did ubers on my assassin.

For Black you can use a

Flail, weapon damage doesn't matter and the base speed is the same.

Final update if anyone is interested. I am rounding the mid 70s and have all my gear and charms in place. Here is the most updated build. Thanks everyone for your advice

https://d2.maxroll.gg/d2planner/dr01067g

Might want to grab a Tgods

Belt instead of dungo's. Helps keep from being 1 shot by meph.
Also might want to pickup a cheap CTA

Black

Flail
Guillaumes
Goblin Toes

Life Tap

Wand
1 point in res lightning/

Salvation.

All you need to uber as a budget smiter. 100% cb with a lifetap

Wand, slap res lightning on for when dealing with Meph.

At level 82, my kicksin Sneakyfeet has officially cleared ubers! This is my first uber clear ever, and i got a 17/10 druid torch. the one class i didn't need a torch for right now lol

Congrats

Did a smiter similar to advice above, made it through everything but

Baal. He seems impossible because the number of adds from his summons make it hard to target

Baal, and the mana drain means I am constantly unable to

Smite. Any advice on these? I've died 3 or 4 times fighting

Baal don't want to have to give up.

Also add he seems to heal up, maybe he is casting life drain?

zephyr1256 wrote: 2 years ago

Did a smiter similar to advice above, made it through everything but

Baal. He seems impossible because the number of adds from his summons make it hard to target

Baal, and the mana drain means I am constantly unable to

Smite. Any advice on these? I've died 3 or 4 times fighting

Baal don't want to have to give up.

Use mana pots for

Baal. Full rejuvs aren't effective since you'll instantly lose all mana again, but mana pots will be regenerating over time to keep you going. Another option is to have an item that grants damage taken as mana (

Ith in

Helm, for example).

Finally won on

Baal, probably 4th or 5th try. I used my sorceress to clear some of the adds. It didn't seem like he resummoned them all after this. Whew! what a fight!

I also did like you said and took half mana half health in my

Belt instead of 3 health and 1 mana rows. That helped too