Ubers Help(again)

mindjames wrote: 6 months ago

Life Tap wands are OP, use them and you will not die.

Maf wrote: 6 months ago

wvgcswiglett wrote: 6 months ago

A few months ago i made a forum post about using a

Frenzy barb to clear ubers.

I've been playing for 4-5 months now and basically all i did in this game(after my first two character's playthrough) was to build as many chars i could to do ubers.

I've built the:

Ranked by best overall efficiency/longevity(how hard was it to die)

Smite paladin
Mosaic

Phoenix Strike assassin
Fury druid
Dual Dreamdin

Frenzy barb

Fireball/

Meteor Sorceress
Physical Zealadin
Dual Dream Sorc

Out of all these characters.... None were able to clear ubers with a consistency ive been hoping for.

My

Fireball sorc failed because the merc couldn't stay alive(even with

Life Tap

Wand + BOs) and my fireballs couldn't do enough damage to put meph into hit recovery therefore I needed to spend half an hour each time to

Revive my merc to kill the bosses.

My physical builds always suffered because of AR issues(mainly the

Frenzy barb, zealadin, dreamdin) and cuoldn't hit the bosses. The ones with higher ar(around 12k) hit the bosses but were demolished by

Baal's mana draining and physical immune monsters.

Laster, my

Phoenix Strike assassin and smiter paladin were able to kill the ubers... 80% of the time.

The Mosaic sin was lacking against

Mephisto and

Baal, which he couldn't drain(due to their extremely low drain effectiveness).

The smiter was the most well rounded and he was fine against all of the uber bosses except

Mephisto, and he sometimes died because of low res(around 25% lightning and 30% cold res after meph's

Conviction aura).


I've done around 30+ uber runs. Someone, PLEASE help me figure this out, i don't want to keep dying for the same reason :/

I am surprised to hear about Fury Druid. He is my safest Uber Killer (not fastest, but I don´t need merc and I don´t think I have ever died trying). And he is nothing extra special on gear-

String of Ears, Gore Raiders, Dracs, Highlords,

Raven, some yellow useless ring (it has literally nothing, not sure why I am even wearing that), Chains in Hellforge and BotD in

Eth Giant Tresher. Only Item I would say is really sweet is Meta´s with +3 Fury.

BigD wrote: 6 months ago

My

Frenzy Barb clears ubers reliably and quickly (not nearly as quickly as my Smiter Pally but he gets it done without much difficulty nonetheless) and his setup consists of:

Gface with IAS+AR jewel
Chains of Honor + Thundergod's (sometimes I'll swap to Duress + Blood crafted

Belt after Uber Meph is killed, which is also an option if you can't afford CoH or Tgods or need more CB+OW)
Grief + Kingslayer

Laying of Hands

Angelic Wings & Halo
Ravenfrost
Gore Riders

Bunch of FHR / +dmg/+AR charms which are

Key to this build.
And then quite a few

Sapphire/Amber charms of Vita/FHR.

Think his AR is around 15-17k after

Demon Limb buff and cold and lightning res are at 240ish before

Fade proc.

Smiter Pally uses:

Gface socketed w/IAS + lightning res jewel

Um'd

Guardian Angel

Kingslayer or Grief (kind of prefer the former for Ubers on this build)

Um'd and upgraded HoZ

Tgods

Gore Riders

Blood crafted gloves (i was able to roll a pair of with 20% IAS and 10% CB finally just recently) , haven't been able to find Drac's as of yet. Doesn't seem like a huge issue to find them as my Smiter rips through Ubers in like 5 min or less but I wouldn't complain if they fell into my lap.

mindjames wrote: 6 months ago

You don't really need to get fancy with

Mephisto IMO.

You just need to make sure:
1. He can't 1-shot you (Tgods + Highlord's will often do the trick, and maybe a

Fade proc from fighting mini-ubers)
2. You precast

Life Tap on him

Then as long as you keep smiting you literally cannot die. Do not attempt to fight any minion, just hack at Meph ASAP. Don't need

Conviction, don't need

Salvation. Just good old

Fanaticism.

Diablo is a piece of cake. If you're struggling, you can switch highlord's for

The Rising Sun, and Tgods for a verdungo.

Baal is also pretty easy as long as you watch your mana.

Honestly, the hardest part of doing Ubers as a smiter is finding

Lilith without dying to her minions.

Life Tap wands are OP, use them and you will not die.

wvgcswiglett wrote: 6 months ago

I am using Chains of Honor,

Thundergod's Vigor, and

Highlord's Wrath for the resists. Honestly i don't know why. i think i should just start stacking res small charms...

Spectie wrote: 6 months ago

on my Mosaic sin i just use assassin

Fade at pretty high level and I have like 230ish light res with some light res sc. No tgods.
meph usually dies before i have to drink the 2nd or 3rd rejuv pot, and

Baal/diablo don't require any pots especially if you can split them.

What is your Mosaic sin gear like? Are you using griffons?

Spectie wrote: 6 months ago

i'm just curious how your sin dies. It should be near invincible after

Mephisto. and Meph should die fast enough that only 1-2 rejuvs are needed.

ShadowHeart wrote: 6 months ago

Uber Baal casts level 37

Chilling Armor, which produces ice bolts doing 114-134 cold damage in retaliation against ranged attacks (it is triggered by

Phoenix Strike chain lightning,

Claws of Thunder charged bolts, and much more, but notably not by

Phoenix Strike meteors). If you have low cold resistance this can completely shred your HP, considering each collision from an applicable projectile cause a retaliatory ice bolts missile.

* actually I think

Baal’s

Chilling Armor might do more damage than the sorc version (the number above is based on a sorc level 37 CA) - it seems it might be 3x the sorc version in damage per ice bolt

wvgcswiglett wrote: 6 months ago

Wow. okay yeah 100 damage is a lot especially since i kick him 5 times and multiple of my charges will cause this.... And it is even harder to deal with in p3(me, my friend and a mule that is there in case we need to exit and save our corpses)