attempting ubers soon - how are my odds?

Ladder, softcore.
This will be my first time ever trying the keys. Javazon (

Lightning Fury 1-2320 /

Charged Strike 1-5202), lvl 87.
Core is decent:

Titan's Revenge, -20/10

Griffon's Eye, Enigma, Spirit

Monarch, anni, ama torch. All together I'm at +15 to skills.
I'm using

Laying of Hands for IAS and +350% damage to demons,

Trang-Oul's Girth for cannot be frozen, then boots / rings / amulet are all +resist rares with a little mf and nothing else relevant. I could swap in a

Raven Frost but don't have a better

Belt except maybe

String of Ears for %phys reduction.
A2 might merc with Insight, Duress and either

Andariel's Visage or

Tal Rasha's Horadric Crest as appropriate.

Am I just overthinking things or would it be a good idea to ask for standby help in case I can't solo

Lilith/

Duriel/

Izual?

I'd suggest

Dracul's Grasp to have

Life Tap in place instead of LoH. survivability is more important IMO rather than kill speed. Once u've gotten hang of downing ubers, u can certainly experiment for faster kill speed

ohptsh wrote: 1 month ago

I'd suggest

Dracul's Grasp to have

Life Tap in place instead of LoH. survivability is more important IMO rather than kill speed. Once u've gotten hang of downing ubers, u can certainly experiment for faster kill speed

Hey I ran into a bug right now that an Uber diablo spawned in my hell run.......... Can someone help me? Like it is there right now.

babyobaby123 wrote: 1 month ago

ohptsh wrote: 1 month ago

I'd suggest

Dracul's Grasp to have

Life Tap in place instead of LoH. survivability is more important IMO rather than kill speed. Once u've gotten hang of downing ubers, u can certainly experiment for faster kill speed

Hey I ran into a bug right now that an Uber diablo spawned in my hell run.......... Can someone help me? Like it is there right now.

Hey! That's DClone. Add me on bnet (humanbeing#11708) and I'll help.

DeimosDeletes wrote: 1 month ago

Ladder, softcore.
This will be my first time ever trying the keys. Javazon (

Lightning Fury 1-2320 /

Charged Strike 1-5202), lvl 87.
Core is decent:

Titan's Revenge, -20/10

Griffon's Eye, Enigma, Spirit

Monarch, anni, ama torch. All together I'm at +15 to skills.
I'm using

Laying of Hands for IAS and +350% damage to demons,

Trang-Oul's Girth for cannot be frozen, then boots / rings / amulet are all +resist rares with a little mf and nothing else relevant. I could swap in a

Raven Frost but don't have a better

Belt except maybe

String of Ears for %phys reduction.
A2 might merc with Insight, Duress and either

Andariel's Visage or

Tal Rasha's Horadric Crest as appropriate.

Am I just overthinking things or would it be a good idea to ask for standby help in case I can't solo

Lilith/

Duriel/

Izual?

A few pieces of advice:

1. Create a lobby game with a password in case you die, so you can S&E and get your corpse back/join with another character.
2. Check that your resistances are at around 300 total to overcome
   Mephisto's
   Conviction Aura.
3. It's typically a good idea to use
   Thundergod's Vigor at least until you kill
   Mephisto to help with his lightning damage.

You probably won't have much of an issue with the mini ubers, but

Uber Tristram can be tricky at first. Post here if you need help!

Based on how the mini ubers went I'm pretty sure I can't solo

Uber Tristram yet, but the minis all went down.

Duriel was easy.

Izual just took patience and thawing potions, but he did kill me once.

Lilith hits like a truck and also managed to kill me once, but antidotes in one

Belt slot saved me enough rejuves to get through her.
I burned through around 50 full rejuvenation potions, two deaths, and probably seven or eight merc respawns even with

Decoy and

Valkyrie.
Think I'll farm another set of keys, gear up, gain a few more levels in t-zones and try again. If that attempt goes smoothly then I'll give

Tristram a shot.

DeimosDeletes wrote: 1 month ago

Based on how the mini ubers went I'm pretty sure I can't solo

Uber Tristram yet, but the minis all went down.

Duriel was easy.

Izual just took patience and thawing potions, but he did kill me once.

Lilith hits like a truck and also managed to kill me once, but antidotes in one

Belt slot saved me enough rejuves to get through her.
I burned through around 50 full rejuvenation potions, two deaths, and probably seven or eight merc respawns even with

Decoy and

Valkyrie.
Think I'll farm another set of keys, gear up, gain a few more levels in t-zones and try again. If that attempt goes smoothly then I'll give

Tristram a shot.

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Sounds like a plan Do you have a Call To Arms? If not, I highly recommend to get one, too.
But imho,

Life Tap is crucial for doing The (Mini) Ubers. If you do not have it on your gear then I suggest shopping for a

Wand.

On top of the good advice already given:

Consider to pre-buff your resistances with a

Fade proc from Treachery.

Your A2 merc won't live in

Tristram. Best practice to just go solo and to not bother shooting him potions or reviving. Otherwise, you could try to make him tanky as hell. E.g. use the same Treachery pre-buff, then swap to

Guardian Angel. Combine with

Kira's Guardian and

The Reaper's Toll. Ideally, all of them ethereal and socketed. He then might survive long enough to provide some

Decrepify procs that can actually help a lot. But that's already some heavy investment and he still might die quite quickly. There apparently are merc setups that can solo Ubers but I never tried any of these.

Watch a video regarding the spawn positions in

Tristram and how to easily isolate the three. Especially make sure to not have crowds near the portal.

my first atempt was my smitter getting farmed by

Lilith, my damage was shit and could not even kill the witches, had to run aroun naked trying to pick my corpse, once the minimap was ridled with corpses, had to go slow and let my mercenary kill everything little by little, after he recovered my body, was able to finish her off alone.
it was a shitshow, now that I got Grief/Exile/Enigma, ubers is a joke. only spend like 2 purple pots in the whole event. and my mercenary survives easy since I'm the one tanking. he uses

Eth insigh/Treachery/andy.

as javazon you should be using

Thundergod's Vigor

Belt.

Here is a nice an entertaining one from one of Schmuck`s livestreams (SC Pally but with absolute low life and low lvl gear)



EDIT: Link

Conversion seems to be broken "https://www.youtube.com" + "/live/BpOWj1ajynE?si=ly_-a9zmgJwoEf9E&t=7019"

That's an old topic but still valid: pathfinding, important knowledge (having a source of open wounds +

Life Tap, 300 light res...).

forums/i-think-i-m-ready-for-my-first-u ... 11646.html

sTonedmason wrote: 1 month ago

On top of the good advice already given:

Consider to pre-buff your resistances with a

Fade proc from Treachery.

Your A2 merc won't live in

Tristram. Best practice to just go solo and to not bother shooting him potions or reviving. Otherwise, you could try to make him tanky as hell. E.g. use the same Treachery pre-buff, then swap to

Guardian Angel. Combine with

Kira's Guardian and

The Reaper's Toll. Ideally, all of them ethereal and socketed. He then might survive long enough to provide some

Decrepify procs that can actually help a lot. But that's already some heavy investment and he still might die quite quickly. There apparently are merc setups that can solo Ubers but I never tried any of these.

Watch a video regarding the spawn positions in

Tristram and how to easily isolate the three. Especially make sure to not have crowds near the portal.

As mentioned, your merc won't be relevant. My advice, if you want a relevant mercenary, is to use an Act I merc with Delirium and Faith (the Manic Pixie Dreamgirl). That's what I use and she's awesome. She tends to live through the whole thing (maybe dying once), and both the

Fanaticism aura and

Confuse proc are useful.

Yeah, looks like I need to hit up some trades and get a few critical pieces sorted out before I try again. I'll keep grinding out

Terror zones in the meantime to build up some value.

My torch was free from rushing random people, the sunder was a very good deal, and the rest is ssf. That's clearly not going to cut it for this any time soon, so time to get to trading.

Thanks everyone for the advice.

ohptsh wrote: 1 month ago

I'd suggest

Dracul's Grasp to have

Life Tap in place instead of LoH. survivability is more important IMO rather than kill speed. Once u've gotten hang of downing ubers, u can certainly experiment for faster kill speed

I've tried

Dracul's Grasp gloves with my level 88

Lightning Fury amazon against

Baal. The fight was for about a minute including the time for reviving once the merc, and

Life Tap never kicked in. For my

Frenzy barb, Fury druid or smiter paladin it normally kicks in within just a few seconds of a fight with a lasting opponent.

From my experience,

Thunderstroke is more effective than Titan. Moreover Call To Arms is a huge buff, which could give you 2500+ life. This is probably the best way to avoid being one-shot killed by uber bosses. Do you also have

Crack of the Heavens?

bigbikefan wrote: 1 month ago

ohptsh wrote: 1 month ago

I'd suggest

Dracul's Grasp to have

Life Tap in place instead of LoH. survivability is more important IMO rather than kill speed. Once u've gotten hang of downing ubers, u can certainly experiment for faster kill speed

I've tried

Dracul's Grasp gloves with my level 88

Lightning Fury amazon against

Baal. The fight was for about a minute including the time for reviving once the merc, and

Life Tap never kicked in. For my

Frenzy barb, Fury druid or smiter paladin it normally kicks in within just a few seconds of a fight with a lasting opponent.

This is weird.... With your fast attack speed,

Life Tap should have proc...
I've not played Amazon before. Any chance ur attack is not physical?

ohptsh wrote: 1 month ago

This is weird.... With your fast attack speed,

Life Tap should have proc...
I've not played Amazon before. Any chance ur attack is not physical?

By definition, it's a

Lightning Fury amazon, so the main attack is the

Lightning Fury skill using an ethereal

Titan's Revenge as the main weapon.

bigbikefan wrote: 1 month ago

ohptsh wrote: 1 month ago

This is weird.... With your fast attack speed,

Life Tap should have proc...
I've not played Amazon before. Any chance ur attack is not physical?

By definition, it's a

Lightning Fury amazon, so the main attack is the

Lightning Fury skill using an ethereal

Titan's Revenge as the main weapon.

Are you using

Charged Strike as main skill against

Baal?

Minies + UT on my java:

https://rumble.com/v715ziu-java-full-uber-run.html

Haven't changed anything on my regular build ( https://maxroll.gg/d2/d2planner/z84o30am ), just removed

Gheed and filled the rest of the inv with a 17+37 lifer and some random life charms. Used a 20/20 plain

Monarch for UT.

So:

Thunderstroke,

Dracul's Grasp,

Thundergod's Vigor, a facet for

Griffon's Eye and a respec later...
Bumped my

Charged Strike damage by about 45% (now 1-7522 and 10 bolts), took minus enemy lightning res from -20 to -40. Just got done with a surprise dclone, and the difference is staggering.
Last two dclones (on my sorc) I ground down largely through A2 merc crushing blow / open wounds and a lot of rejuvs. This one I just stood there and stabbed him in the face until he died. Very satisfying. Burned three health pots total, merc lived, and I still forgot to use lower resistance on my weapon swap.
Time to farm up some keys to use myself instead of trading for gear, because this is feeling way more viable.
Trying to figure out some more +res but every available slot has as much as I can get already.