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: 1 day 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: 22 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: 19 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: 17 hours 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.

Just put a

Um rune in your

Helm. You don't care much about ed jewel because crushing blow will do the main job (you don't have enought crushing blow).

You really have to think about

Guillaume's Face with a

Um rune because your crushing blow %.

Your main problem will come from

Baal and high physical damage immune minions.
I don't know how your druid will manage them.
As a barb, you have

Howl to keep them away.

hitechhobo wrote: 13 hours ago

We will have a necromancer in the party.

Decrepify lowers physical resistance by 50%, which can break physical immunity, but if I combine it with a

Bone Break charm, it sets their physical resistance to 45%. I've done this before; very effective at killing them (as they typically have lower HP anyway.)

You better have to use

Terror on them so they run away and you don't waste Time at killing them.
You want to focus all your hits for

Baal.

Edit : don't forget

Demon Limb to precast

Enchant on you.

Marrowwalk

Boots can provide a safer endeavour with 10 charges of level 12

Life Tap, that totals 424 seconds of duration. Restoring charges may prove to be quite expensive, but who cares about in-game

Gold when a

Hellfire Torch is at stake.

I have not read everything, but here are my major points:

• Try to get your lightning resistances to +300 or at least close to this value
• For the
  Belt use
  Verdungo's Hearty Cord or
  Thundergod's Vigor
• If you have a Necromancer with you make sure
  Life Tap is always on the Boss you are fighting because you cannot leech on them - therefore
  Nosferatu's Coil and
  String of Ears are not much help in this situation.
• Try to get as much AR as possible by
  Enchant from e.g.
  Demon Limb. My Zealer gets
  Baal only efficiently down with
  Smite because
  Baal's defense really is a bummer

You can also let us know when you go in so maybe someone can stand by to hop in if you get in trouble.