Ubers resists?

Yesterday I tried to run Ubers with my Foher (I didnt even swap gear to dmg - I was geared for MF) with my friend who was smiter (kinda under geared). It was a the most messy ubers I have ever done. I had to run

Conviction against

Mephisto and then swapping between might aura to boost his dmg and

Salvation to help with his resists. Basicly I was just healing him. And my

Smite with HoZ was unplayable due to slow IAS and not wearing Grief.

My expectations were I would do decent amount of dmg with

Holy Bolt (lvl 41 6,1-6,9k dmg) but reality was my dmg was really low - dunno if it was because of they had so much hp or they have resists. And they kept charging at me instead on my friend. I was teleporting like crazy.

My questions:
Are ubers resitant to

Holy Bolt dmg? Are they even considered as demons or undead?

Why did they targeted me? And not my friend who was smiting them? I was higher lvl (maybe that was the reason?)

Conclusion: MF Foher aint uberkiller

they are demons (so enhanced damage against demons applies) but they have huge life pool, so if you don t have decent crushing blow you don't scratch em, and no, foher ain't no uber killer, and they targeted you because they hate fohers and they like smiters, or at least that's what

Mephisto said to me yesterday

Grab a

Heaven's Light with two shaels and with 1 point

Smite and 1 point Fana and your Fohdin becomes a Uber Killer

They all have 75% Magic resist so you damage is divided by 4.
They have 15k life gene per sec.
Your 25% * 6k

Holy Bolt is not enough.

Besides you need open wounds or poison to stop their super life regen.

mockingbirdreal wrote: 2 years ago

They all have 75% Magic resist so you damage is divided by 4.
They have 15k life gene per sec.
Your 25% * 6k

Holy Bolt is not enough.

Holy

Bolts ignore any resistances.

Tetra wrote: 2 years ago

Holy

Bolts ignore any resistances.

Not to demons, tested myself

Steccothal wrote: 2 years ago

they targeted you because they hate fohers and they like smiters, or at least that's what

Mephisto said to me yesterday

well

Mephisto lied, he was the only one who was focusing my smiter friend

mockingbirdreal wrote: 2 years ago

Not to demons, tested myself

thx for info

k88lech wrote: 2 years ago

Grab a

Heaven's Light with two shaels and with 1 point

Smite and 1 point Fana and your Fohdin becomes a Uber Killer

that actually works? I have my dedicated uber killer with 300light res, Grief, draculs, Exile and other gear. I was just curious how foher would do.

Thx for tip. If I find it I will definitelly try it.

The Flash wrote: 2 years ago

Steccothal wrote: 2 years ago

they targeted you because they hate fohers and they like smiters, or at least that's what

Mephisto said to me yesterday

well

Mephisto lied, he was the only one who was focusing my smiter friend

what a world we live in if you can't even trust the lord of hatred anymore

Steccothal wrote: 2 years ago

The Flash wrote: 2 years ago

Steccothal wrote: 2 years ago

they targeted you because they hate fohers and they like smiters, or at least that's what

Mephisto said to me yesterday

well

Mephisto lied, he was the only one who was focusing my smiter friend

what a world we live in if you can't even trust the lord of hatred anymore

maybe his title is reason why

The Flash wrote: 2 years ago

k88lech wrote: 2 years ago

Grab a

Heaven's Light with two shaels and with 1 point

Smite and 1 point Fana and your Fohdin becomes a Uber Killer

that actually works? I have my dedicated uber killer with 300light res, Grief, draculs, Exile and other gear. I was just curious how foher would do.

Thx for tip. If I find it I will definitelly try it.

It does. Though

Heaven's Light isn't ideal for that imo (due to only hitting 8 frames base, even with 2x

Shael and a lack of OW).

You really don't need much actual smiter gear (or skills) to take down ubers/dclone. Hammerdins/FOHdins with a minimum of

Smite capability are perfectly capable of handling them by themselves.

What you really want/"need" is simply:
- Lifetap (so you don't need to pot..unless you like potting in which case lifetap is optional)
- Some sort of crushing blow as an easy source of massive dmg
- Open wounds to stop their regen
- Enough res to live through meph
- Ideally at least 7 frame base

Smite for crushing/tap procs

You can achieve all of that with a simple weapon swap to Kingslayer + Exile. That way, you can stay in literally full FoH gear without ever swapping anything and just shift over to 2-piece

Smite when needed. All you drop for it is CTA which - let's be honest - a pally really doesn't need. They're plenty tanky as is. Or just keep it as switch gear if you don't mind changing stuff along the way.
Add in

Gore Rider for extra crushing at no real stat loss on the FoH side to round it off. (Yes, yes,

Goblin Toe adds more but f that lack of run speed)

A Kingslayer phase gives you a 7-frame base

Smite which is plenty to handle meph with a measly 1 pt in

Smite. Add 1 pt in

Fanaticism to drop to 6fps against everything else (1pt in

Salvation for meph to cover your res needs) and you're set. As a FoH-din you should have plenty of skill points left to

Cap

Holy Shield on top of that, adding some dmg to your smiting besides the crushing.

(Some sort of anti-freeze would be nice though, if you don't already have a

Cham in your FoH head.

Raven on switch covers that)

Schnorki wrote: 2 years ago

The Flash wrote: 2 years ago

k88lech wrote: 2 years ago

Grab a

Heaven's Light with two shaels and with 1 point

Smite and 1 point Fana and your Fohdin becomes a Uber Killer

that actually works? I have my dedicated uber killer with 300light res, Grief, draculs, Exile and other gear. I was just curious how foher would do.

Thx for tip. If I find it I will definitelly try it.

It does. Though

Heaven's Light isn't ideal for that imo (due to only hitting 8 frames base, even with 2x

Shael and a lack of OW).

...

Hmm, I did a quick d2planner setup (because I think the frames I reach with my setup are quite good) and with

Heaven's Light with two shaels + Fana lvl 16 (1 hard point) it shows 6 frames (https://maxroll.gg/d2/d2planner/kq0106ci). I am missing something?

I chose

Heaven's Light mainly because of +3 pala skills, fast attack speed and 33% CB and I actually didn't switch gear between my normal play and Ubers (except for

Magefist). Of course after some time I got Enigma and for the fast tele I added arachs + HoTo (but that is another topic). And my initial setup was quite cheap.

Schnorki wrote: 2 years ago

The Flash wrote: 2 years ago

k88lech wrote: 2 years ago

Grab a

Heaven's Light with two shaels and with 1 point

Smite and 1 point Fana and your Fohdin becomes a Uber Killer

that actually works? I have my dedicated uber killer with 300light res, Grief, draculs, Exile and other gear. I was just curious how foher would do.

Thx for tip. If I find it I will definitelly try it.

It does. Though

Heaven's Light isn't ideal for that imo (due to only hitting 8 frames base, even with 2x

Shael and a lack of OW).

You really don't need much actual smiter gear (or skills) to take down ubers/dclone. Hammerdins/FOHdins with a minimum of

Smite capability are perfectly capable of handling them by themselves.

What you really want/"need" is simply:
- Lifetap (so you don't need to pot..unless you like potting in which case lifetap is optional)
- Some sort of crushing blow as an easy source of massive dmg
- Open wounds to stop their regen
- Enough res to live through meph
- Ideally at least 7 frame base

Smite for crushing/tap procs

You can achieve all of that with a simple weapon swap to Kingslayer + Exile. That way, you can stay in literally full FoH gear without ever swapping anything and just shift over to 2-piece

Smite when needed. All you drop for it is CTA which - let's be honest - a pally really doesn't need. They're plenty tanky as is. Or just keep it as switch gear if you don't mind changing stuff along the way.
Add in

Gore Rider for extra crushing at no real stat loss on the FoH side to round it off. (Yes, yes,

Goblin Toe adds more but f that lack of run speed)

A Kingslayer phase gives you a 7-frame base

Smite which is plenty to handle meph with a measly 1 pt in

Smite. Add 1 pt in

Fanaticism to drop to 6fps against everything else (1pt in

Salvation for meph to cover your res needs) and you're set. As a FoH-din you should have plenty of skill points left to

Cap

Holy Shield on top of that, adding some dmg to your smiting besides the crushing.

(Some sort of anti-freeze would be nice though, if you don't already have a

Cham in your FoH head.

Raven on switch covers that)

when you explain it like this it sounds so simple

k88lech wrote: 2 years ago

Hmm, I did a quick d2planner setup (because I think the frames I reach with my setup are quite good) and with

Heaven's Light with two shaels + Fana lvl 16 (1 hard point) it shows 6 frames (https://maxroll.gg/d2/d2planner/kq0106ci). I am missing something?

Nope, you're not. I was talking about the base speed (i.e. without fana) so you don't have to specifically gear for even more res against meph. Being able to just go for 1pt

Salvation against him (or conv as a FoHdin) makes him a lot easier/means you don't need any extra res gear but dropping to 8 frames doing so certainly isn't ideal.

rikus wrote: 2 years ago

when you explain it like this it sounds so simple

Because it is.

Schnorki wrote: 2 years ago

Because it is.

i don't think you understand the value of experience... :p i estimate that if and when i actually get to ubers, i will probably get corpse guarded and have to find all 9 keys all over again

Schnorki wrote: 2 years ago

k88lech wrote: 2 years ago

Hmm, I did a quick d2planner setup (because I think the frames I reach with my setup are quite good) and with

Heaven's Light with two shaels + Fana lvl 16 (1 hard point) it shows 6 frames (https://maxroll.gg/d2/d2planner/kq0106ci). I am missing something?

Nope, you're not. I was talking about the base speed (i.e. without fana) so you don't have to specifically gear for even more res against meph. Being able to just go for 1pt

Salvation against him (or conv as a FoHdin) makes him a lot easier/means you don't need any extra res gear but dropping to 8 frames doing so certainly isn't ideal.

I got it I just don't mind adding some more charms I guess and back then I was seeking for a all in one solution for convenience. But anyway, plenty of options here

rikus wrote: 2 years ago

Schnorki wrote: 2 years ago

Because it is.

i don't think you understand the value of experience... :p i estimate that if and when i actually get to ubers, i will probably get corpse guarded and have to find all 9 keys all over again

Fair point.

You can always ask for help here, in case you do get smacked around by them. Or even beforehand as a contingency, to be safe. There's plenty of folks happy to help for free (myself included if I'm available at the time). No need to just lose the keys.

Schnorki wrote: 2 years ago

All you drop for it is CTA which - let's be honest - a pally really doesn't need. They're plenty tanky as is.

actually before I buffed my pala with charms and respect myself into more vitality (I dont have max block). With CtA I had around 2k hp. It was all OK until

Lilith one shot me - odds are low. But she did. One hit.