my experience with uber tristram and why attack rating sucks

I've done probably 30

Uber Tristram runs total - online and offline. Which isn't a ton but it's not 0.
I've done it on the following classes/builds

Phoenix Strike Mosaic sin

Dragon Tail Mosaic sin

Smite paladin

Frenzy barbarian

Whirlwind barbarian

Apocalypse warlock

Fireball sorc (with

Bone Prison)

IMO they really should do something with attack rating because it is SO much easier to do

Uber Tristram on Mosaic sin or

Smite than on barb. I did

Enchant + angelic combo on barb and have done multiple runs, it is just so much more time consuming because of

Baal's

Chilling Armor and missing a ton. It's super annoying feeling like you need 15-20k AR instead of martial arts finishers or

Smite or any spell cast that just automatically hits.

I don't know what the answer is, defense needs to matter but goodness attack rating is one of those things that just makes doing higher end stuff on melee so much more miserable most of the time.

bar is kind of weak in boss fight.

I build my bar with only 1 affix + accuracy and use it to fight regular monster and elite monsters.

trav,

Key, essence

it is weak point against uber boss, yes..

Spectie wrote: 1 hour ago

Frenzy barbarian

I don't know what the answer is, defense needs to matter but goodness attack rating is one of those things that just makes doing higher end stuff on melee so much more miserable most of the time.

I did a number of runs with a decently geared smiter. Then I went in with my

Frenzy barb and holy hells it was a whole different story. Way more difficult.