Uber Bosses Advice

Thank you for the advice.

I went with a +15% all resist & +15 max damage jewel instead of the

Um rune to get the resists and some extra damage.

The third person joining us will be a bowazon for crowd control, so I think the minions should not be a problem.

Thank you for answering my question about life/mana leach against these bosses. Yes, we'll have a necro using

Life Tap on the bosses and

Decrepify against minions, while also buffing us with CTA.

I don't have some of these items (

Verdungo's Hearty Cord,

Thundergod's Vigor,

Demon Limb). I'll probably still go once the three of us are all ready. My

String of Ears does give me 12% physical resistance, and the amazon has an act 3 fire merc that casts

Enchant. However, if I happen to come across some of these mentioned items before we start I would consider using them.

hitechhobo wrote: 1 day ago

I went with a +15% all resist & +15 max damage jewel instead of the

Um rune to get the resists and some extra damage.

If I'm not wrong, 15 max damages or pieces of armor are ignored because of an old bug.
You better had to go for a 15 all res 15 IAS.

hitechhobo wrote: 1 day ago

I don't have some of these items (

Verdungo's Hearty Cord,

Thundergod's Vigor,

Demon Limb)

You can get

Demon Limb for free here : search.php?keywords=Demon%20Limb&terms= ... mit=Search

Tornado_OLO wrote: 1 day ago

If I'm not wrong, 15 max damages or pieces of armor are ignored because of an old bug.

That's only if the jewel has both ED% and max damage (or if you socket an item that already has max/min damage, whether innately or via a jewel, with an ED% jewel).
As explained here: post3267256.html#p3267256

my Fury druid have this setup:
Metamorphosis (+3fury), highlords,

Gore Rider,

Eth

Decapitator Death,

Raven Frost,

Laying of Hands,

String of Ears, some +str + life leech + all res ring and Hustle
some allres / fhr / life / max dmg / ar charms +

Annihilus + druid

Hellfire Torch

prebuff with

Fade +

Enchant, running with

Heart of Wolverine, also often use

Feral Rage

merc is

Frenzy barb with Treachery, Cure , Lawbringer (

Decrepify) and Hustle (lvl 1 fanatism)

ar after buff is around 19k,

Uber Mephisto is not a problem due fast leeching, only

Uber Baal with his minions are a bit trouble if

Baal is not alone

Hi Everyone,

We just finished our first

Uber Tristram quest run as a group and I thought I'd post how it went.

First of all, thank you to everyone for your helpful suggestions.

We crushed it. No one died---or even got close to dying.

We had a party of 4: Fury

Werewolf (me), Bone necro, bowazon, and a paladin.

The paladin ran salvaion aura while we fought

Mephisto first. The

Conviction aura was almost completely nullified from his aura. No one in the party had 300% bonus to any resist, so we did fine there.

After killing

Mephisto, I accidentally agroed

Baal and Diablo at the same time. However, there was no problem. We killed both of them with ease. Necro kept boses life tapped and minions decrepified. Bowazon effortlessly cleared the minions. The paladin switched to

Fanaticism after

Mephisto was dead, and his merc provided a

Conviction aura which reduced their defense, so no

Enchant was necessary. My merc had over 50% crushing blow. No ones' mercenary died. And we killed both pretty quickly.

The result: +16 attributes, +18 all resists Barbarian torch.

Thanks again for your help towards some newer players!

hitechhobo wrote: 1 day ago

Hi Everyone,

We just finished our first

Uber Tristram quest run as a group and I thought I'd post how it went.

First of all, thank you to everyone for your helpful suggestions.

We crushed it. No one died---or even got close to dying.

We had a party of 4: Fury

Werewolf (me), Bone necro, bowazon, and a paladin.

The paladin ran salvaion aura while we fought

Mephisto first. The

Conviction aura was almost completely nullified from his aura. No one in the party had 300% bonus to any resist, so we did fine there.

After killing

Mephisto, I accidentally agroed

Baal and Diablo at the same time. However, there was no problem. We killed both of them with ease. Necro kept boses life tapped and minions decrepified. Bowazon effortlessly cleared the minions. The paladin switched to

Fanaticism after

Mephisto was dead, and his merc provided a

Conviction aura which reduced their defense, so no

Enchant was necessary. My merc had over 50% crushing blow. No ones' mercenary died. And we killed both pretty quickly.

The result: +16 attributes, +18 all resists Barbarian torch.

Thanks again for your help towards some newer players!

Congratulations, I'm glad that everything worked out.

ShadowHeart wrote: 1 day ago

That's only if the jewel has both ED% and max damage (or if you socket an item that already has max/min damage, whether innately or via a jewel, with an ED% jewel).
As explained here: post3267256.html#p3267256

Thank you. I can never remember this.

Great!
And a very nicely rolled Torch on top of that, congratz!

hitechhobo wrote: 2 days 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.

Laying of Hands is probably the better choice for you. You should already have at least 50% crushing blow elsewhere on your gear anyways, 10% more or less shouldn't make or break the difference here.

Blood Gloves or Dracul's are generally superior for a Smiter paladin because the +350% Enhance Dmg to demons does not apply to

Smite and because the IAS is almost totally unnecessary if you have level 20

Fanaticism and a

Phase Blade base.

I don't know what druid breakpoints are, but the 350% ED to demons would probably benefit you more than the 10% CB. In my experience running Ubers many times, 50% CB is really all you need - more is nice, but don't compromise other defensive and offensive measures and go out of your way for more CB if you have at least that much.

CB also loses alot of effectiveness once your target's health bar gets very low (especially Uber bosses due to their regeneration), because it's based on their REMAINING life, not their base total life. This is why if you've ever done Uber runs with Grief vs Last Wish on a smiter you'll notice that Grief chops down their life bar much quicker once it gets below a certain point.