Fastest Baal killer

I'm currently using a FOH/

Smite hybrid for clearing the waves and

Baal. It works and I don't have to worry about immunities, but I'm trying to min max and am wondering what others think is the fastest (not Mosaic) build for solo clearing all the waves and

Baal.

Mosaic > Javazone > Lightning Sorc in P8.

Nova sorc is the fastest in P1, faster than Mosaic in average.

Nova or Lightning sorceress probably? To her looking for

Baal throne room entrance and waiting during his "AHAHAHAHA" actually takes more time than killing things.

I figured

Nova sorc was up there, but I still haven't got a

Griffon's Eye.

Nova sorc actually doesn't kill

Baal that quickly. Minions yes. Not sure about lightning sorc. My Javazon probably kills him fastest with

Charged Strike. Or my smiter I guess but he's slow on the minions ofc.

Fire sorc with maxed

Inferno as a

Meteor synergie is also quite fast (infy merc, as much -enemy fire res and skills as possible, stack meteors in the spawn zone, use firebaal vs single targets).

justinman114 wrote: 2 weeks ago

Nova sorc actually doesn't kill

Baal that quickly. Minions yes. Not sure about lightning sorc. My Javazon probably kills him fastest with

Charged Strike. Or my smiter I guess but he's slow on the minions ofc.

My hybrid FOH/

Smite uses the FOH and

Holy Bolt on the waves, then

Smite on

Baal. It's smooth but since I'm not optimized for either, it's not as fast as I would like. I recently picked up Titan's and TStroke, but I haven't done an Amazon since 1.10 days and even then I was a bowazon so it will be a while before I have a lightning Javazon ready.

RackAnewShoe wrote: 2 weeks ago

justinman114 wrote: 2 weeks ago

Nova sorc actually doesn't kill

Baal that quickly. Minions yes. Not sure about lightning sorc. My Javazon probably kills him fastest with

Charged Strike. Or my smiter I guess but he's slow on the minions ofc.

My hybrid FOH/

Smite uses the FOH and

Holy Bolt on the waves, then

Smite on

Baal. It's smooth but since I'm not optimized for either, it's not as fast as I would like. I recently picked up Titan's and TStroke, but I haven't done an Amazon since 1.10 days and even then I was a bowazon so it will be a while before I have a lightning Javazon ready.

Javazon is super fun! For reference, my zon takes down Dclone in about 8 charged strikes, it's wild. My merc has Infinity though, which is what helps deal a ton of damage.

Fireball /

Meteor is the fastest sorceress build for doing

Baal and his Minions.

You can often skip wave 3 Hydras by spamming your own along with

Meteor and

Fireball.

It's also by far the best Sorceress boss killer build. Javazon is slightly faster but actually has to get down to the throne first...

I like lightning trapsin. Each wave takes 10 strikes or less of 4 lightning sentries and 1

Death Sentry.

Shadow Master is spawned inside a pack, so it grabs all the minions' attention, and is busy fighting without overriding sentries.

Baal takes up to two sets of

Lightning Sentry spawns for 20 strikes or less. Infinity equipped merc helps.
Edit: So I decided to clock the next run in terms of the number of strikes. Each wave but the last one was annihilated within 3-6 strikes. The last was 9, and Ball himself was 9-10, meaning the last 2 or 3 spawned sentries were still standing when he disappeared.

My fastest

Baal killer is my lightning Javazon.

Charged Strike will kill him in just a few seconds. If he hits with mana burn a quick rejuv will neutralize it.

It looks like there are a lot of votes for Javazon. Too bad the only Amazon I have is a clvl 1 mule right now.

RackAnewShoe wrote: 2 weeks ago

It looks like there are a lot of votes for Javazon. Too bad the only Amazon I have is a clvl 1 mule right now.

When I choose a mule character class, it's always with the thought I might decide to give it a go.

mhlg wrote: 2 weeks ago

RackAnewShoe wrote: 2 weeks ago

It looks like there are a lot of votes for Javazon. Too bad the only Amazon I have is a clvl 1 mule right now.

When I choose a mule character class, it's always with the thought I might decide to give it a go.

I've been through the whole cycle. I started out by having a bunch of characters that I would "get to play eventually." Then I ended up with a bunch of named characters and could never remember where my stuff was. Then I went to a stack of Assassin's and Druids with names like "sets" and "RareBootsTwo". Now that I'm on Bnet with a character limit I need to go back to characters that I will eventually play.

RackAnewShoe wrote: 2 weeks ago

mhlg wrote: 2 weeks ago

RackAnewShoe wrote: 2 weeks ago

It looks like there are a lot of votes for Javazon. Too bad the only Amazon I have is a clvl 1 mule right now.

When I choose a mule character class, it's always with the thought I might decide to give it a go.

I've been through the whole cycle. I started out by having a bunch of characters that I would "get to play eventually." Then I ended up with a bunch of named characters and could never remember where my stuff was. Then I went to a stack of Assassin's and Druids with names like "sets" and "RareBootsTwo". Now that I'm on Bnet with a character limit I need to go back to characters that I will eventually play.

Amazon's are in my opinion the most fun class to play. I posted a video of my Javazon farming D Keys. This is a Chaos run.

I was doing cows, Chaos, and Worldstone runs on ladder and a Javazon kept jumping in and wiping the screen. I've been wanting to make one for a while. It looks awesome.

RackAnewShoe wrote: 2 weeks ago

I was doing cows, Chaos, and Worldstone runs on ladder and a Javazon kept jumping in and wiping the screen. I've been wanting to make one for a while. It looks awesome.

Go for it, because you won't regret it.

justinman114 wrote: 2 weeks ago

Nova sorc actually doesn't kill

Baal that quickly. Minions yes. Not sure about lightning sorc. My Javazon probably kills him fastest with

Charged Strike. Or my smiter I guess but he's slow on the minions ofc.

Smiter/FoH hybrid FTW here

BigD wrote: 2 weeks ago

justinman114 wrote: 2 weeks ago

Nova sorc actually doesn't kill

Baal that quickly. Minions yes. Not sure about lightning sorc. My Javazon probably kills him fastest with

Charged Strike. Or my smiter I guess but he's slow on the minions ofc.

Smiter/FoH hybrid FTW here

That's what I'm thinking until I get that Javazon up. I just did a couple runs with my full

Tal's Lightning sorc and she was just too squishy. Actual kill time on each wave was about the same, but

Baal would just cast blood mana curse then mana Rift and I spent most of the fights chugging and running. I actually got killed by the appendages once or twice since my health was so low. My FoH/Smiter just tanked it all so total time was quicker. Now I just need a

Lo for Grief.

Alt-F4 (PC) kills

Baal quite quickly