LF Advice Uber Tristram Amazon

Hello!
Looking for some advice from some wise sage like players here.

So far ladder season two I've been having fun with my first ever

Lightning Fury /

Charged Strike amazon.
I wanted to see if it was possible to turn my Amazon in to a very tough uber killing machine.

Has anyone ironed out a decent "cheap or budget" build / gear set up that allows amazon to easily survive and murder Ubers?

The only uber that's a concern is

Über Mephisto. Dealing with him requires a near-complete gear swap. For me, he took 45 seconds to take down and I made some major mistakes that slowed down my time, like forgetting to swap out my merc's Infinity for Pride, forgetting to use the

Life Tap wand, not noticing that I was attacking with

Charged Strike for a good 15 seconds before switching to

Jab, and having my back face a few skeleton mages instead of using a

Tristram building wall to block their line of sight.

The key differences from the typical lightning javazon gearset are:

Pre-proc

Fade from Treachery
Ethereal Upgraded

Titan's Revenge (this is actually my main weapon, but maybe not everyone else's)

Guillaume's Face +

Um

Stormshield + Jewel of Fervor

Gore Rider

Thundergod's Vigor

Laying of Hands

Wand of

Life Tap
Every resistance charm you can throw in your inventory

In theory, I can take down

Über Mephisto in under 15 seconds, but I haven't done another uber run since that last one a month and a half ago.

You fight the other two ubers with your standard gear as they're not really all that different from their normal forms other than being tankier.

To add to Snakecharmed's valuable tips:

If you go with

Jab*, you could use a Duress armor (after pre-procing

Fade as suggested) e.g. in an

Archon Plate. In addition, you can use the Lvl 23

Enchant from

Demon Limb to significantly boost your AR before the fight.
Also, since you have 33% Open Wounds from Duress, you might wanna go for

Goblin Toe for more CB than

Gore Rider but I haven't tried it yet with the latter so not sure what's best.

Dracul's Grasp might also be an alternative pair of gloves (and I'd say a must-have if you don't use a

Life Tap

Wand).


* which I guess is the only real budget option as otherwise you'd need quite some - % lightning res which is not too cheap to come by after breaking Meph's immunity with I suppose a Sunder Charm or Plague lower res proc from your merc. I could be totally wrong though.

You can use the charges on marrowalk

Boots for lifetap and the boneprison to help isolate the ubers from their minions. They are super cheap.

I don't know how I completely overlooked that this is on ladder. I was still operating under the principle of a non-Paladin unbreakable lightning immunity.

That being said, a

Jab-based, physical damage approach is still the cheapest option in terms of gear against

Über Mephisto and you don't need a skill/stat respec for it to be effective. Although now, I'm sure a sunder charm with regular javazon gear and

Charged Strike will be fine offensively as long as you have

Thunderstroke and

Griffon's Eye. The

Life Tap returns might be underwhelming though and you'd be down an extra 75+% lightning resists.

I like the

Demon Limb mention as well for additional AR. I always kept one for DClone and ubers in LoD, still keep one in my shared stash today, and forgot to mention it here because I use so many things for pre-buffing or utility on weapon switch that I have to carry additional weapon switch weapons in the cube and don't always remember all of them anymore.

I never tried it with an Amazon but I think the advice for Ubers is the same regardless of which class you use, or at least the same for all melee builds. You need: AR, Crushing Blow,

Life Tap, stacked resists (especially for

Mephisto).

For that reason, there are various pieces of gear that are almost always good to use:

Demon Limb for

Enchant, Treachery for the

Fade proc,

Dracul's Grasp for the

Life Tap (or a

Wand on swap, if you prefer),

Goblin Toe or

Gore Rider

Boots for the CB,

Guillaume's Face for the CB, Duress for the CB and resists. You don't need all of those things but they certainly help and there's nothing expensive in there.