Uber Bosses Advice

Lay on Hands is def the better Gloves, but you def want crushing blow for them, they have so much health. Typical choices for CB are

Goblin Toe and Guiliaume's Face and there are some nice weapons for it too - The Death runeword isn't too expensive, neither are

Bonesnap or

Steeldriver (you'd want to up those from normal probably)... I've never played Fury and aren't sure what kinds of weapons you use though.

hitechhobo wrote: 7 hours ago

Hey Everyone,

I just started playing about a month ago and finally collected my first 3 x 3 full

Key set to do the uber bosses. I plan on running them tonight with a few trusted friends.

I'm playing a Fury druid. I have a gear question and am looking for advice.

Do you think, for the glove slot,

Laying of Hands would be better, or

Blood Gloves with 20% IAS & 10% crushing blow. I have both, but I am not sure which would be preferred. On the one hand,

Laying of Hands gives me fire resist and +350% damage to demons, but I also hear crushing blow is important for dealing with ubers.

Suggestions from people who've done the uber bosses with a melee character would be appreciated.

The better choice depends on your other gear. While it's important to have all your resistances in place, lightning resistances is the most important. In fact you should get your lighting resistance as close to 300% as possible or use a Treachery to proc

Fade if you want to survive Uber Meph's level 20

Conviction, and lightning attacks. As for gloves, if your fire resistance is low then you might want to consider

Laying of Hands, otherwise the one with crushing blow is the better choice. You will need a lot of crushing blow, and some open wounds to prevent the Ubers from regenerating. So if want more advice then list your gear and resistances.

An aside, consider having a Treachery armor on hand so that you can proc

Fade by standing in a fire, and then swapping back to your main gear, whatever that is. Level 15

Fade will give you 60% resist all and last for 4 minutes and 48 seconds which is long enough to take out Meph.

The hardest for melee isn't

Mephisto but

Baal.

What's your AR ?
You want 9-10k without

Enchant precast.

Death is very strong against ubers because high crushing blow.

Depends your IAS breakpoint, chose string over nosferatu.

Let me put it this way: The chances of Uber-Mephi one-hitting you is a chance, where you WOULD want to gamble your house and your life-savings on.

79% LightningResi becomes -46% because of his aura.
And his lightningattack can hit you for several thousand damage at once, which get adjusted according to your ressistance.
(Should your Ressis already be adjusted to his aura, it is a different thing of course)

just fill your inventory with lightning resistance charms and use drac gloves for

Life Tap.
my smitter under uber mepho aura still has 85 to lightning resitances 20 to fire/cold.

I would chose Duress instead of Fortitude . Death or

Ribcracker instead of BoaD . Draculs grasp also good because of

Life Tap and open wounds . And might be consider thundergods

Vigor as

Belt . Other pieces seems fine .

hitechhobo wrote: 5 hours ago

I think my big concern right now is my resistances.

As @mhlg mentioned in his post, pre-procing

Fade with Treachery will help with your resistances. Treachery comes with level 15

Fade which gives 60 All Res and 15% Physical Dmg Reduced.

hitechhobo wrote: 2 hours ago

Update, my uber run might not happen tonight. However, my brother (the necro who is joining) had a bunch of resistance charms he is loaning me. So now my fire, cold, and lightning resists are all above maxed in hell.

I'll post how the uber event goes on this thread once we do it.

Before you make a run here's a point for you to consider.

Uber Mephisto's

Conviction lowers your lightning resistance by about 125%, so you have be certain you have enough in reserve to nullify the effect of his Lightning/

Charged Bolt attacks or he will one shot you. So if for instance your resistances are showing 95% then his level 20

Conviction will drop it to -30%. Here is a screenshot I took of my resistances. The 95% is what is in play and the 300% is in reserve, and it's that Bonus reserve that will stop you from getting one shotted by

Mephisto. You can check your bonus resistance by using your mouse cursor.

hitechhobo wrote: 34 minutes ago

Ok! Thank you. I didn't know you could do that.

So far, then, with charms boosting I have 80% lightning resist with +210% total.

I could boost this by +12% by using my other ring specifically when fighting

Uber Mephisto, but then my other resists would go down by 5%. But it sounds like it's worth it.

Don't forget that you can use a Treachery runeword armor to boost your resistances by 60% for 4 minutes and 48 seconds. It usually only takes a minute or two to drop

Mephisto. Here's a map that shows Schnorki's recommended route.