Hephasto ain't your bro! Please stop trying catch him!

UPD1: It's worth mentioning, given the comments below, that this post is for those who enjoy an aggressive playstyle, soloing on 8ppl, for the fastest possible clear, not for Snaillocks. This build is also suitable for hardcore mode, but everything is much slower there due to the fear of dying. On softcore, you might suddenly jump into a crowd with a

Herald, or unsuccessfully

Teleport onto an evil

Bone Fetish, after which many start whining that they'll now have to spend hours catching a new demon.

This playstyle requires Enigma, if you don't have it, you should learn how to trade. Of course, after the nerf, something may change, but the living shield mechanic will remain viable. If you already have Enigma, but you play no faster than my dead grandfather, then you should think about why you need this toy. What's the point of sending a stupid merc into battle when Wlock is so powerful he can destroy everything like a Mosaic? A large demon can't be blocked in one spot; just step aside and he'll rush into battle. I also repeat, you can throw him into the crowd with

Death Mark, and your mercenary will stay by your side. Yes, sometimes it's worth pressing other buttons, and not just spamming with a

Blessed Hammer or

Nova.

Below is just a way to quickly and cheaply get a demon with a curse and aura, so you don't have to f*ck your brain and can just continue fighting while everyone else is fap and crying about their loss. If you can't do everything 5-10 times faster with Enigma than by walk, then we have nothing to talk about; this post is not for you.


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Hephasto the Armorer is a medium-sized monster, meaning he will constantly run away, when u teleporting. It's best to catch the big demon like a

Blunderbore,

Megademon and

Lister the Tormentor;

Why? What for? For what purpose?

This will make you completely invincible to ranged attacks!

READ AGAIN:

THIS WILL MAKE YOU COMPLETELY INVINCIBLE TO RANGED ATTACKS!

Every time I see a Warlock running from

Stygian Fury's,

Skeleton Archer's, or

Tainted's, I feel sad.

And every time I try to explain that Hephasto sucks, no one understands me, and everyone tries to hold on to their useless demon because they spent several hours looking for him.

This is an old mechanic that has always been used by the Necro Summoner with Enigma. While you have a living shield of monsters on you, you do not take damage. You just need to

Teleport once to gather everyone in presence:


To catch a cursed demon, you simply need to reroll the TZ-mod, any normal monster has this modifier. You don't even need to change your build; just get 20 points in the

Bind Demon skill using charms,

Mang Song's Lesson and the Spirit on swap.

Catch any normal

Blunderbore in the tombs, durance, or

River of Flame that is under

Terror. After that, look at the aura. I'm lazy and just reroll it to

Holy Freeze.

Fanaticism is a bit more complicated, in this case you need a unique lightning-enchanted demon, you'll have to search for him, because unique monsters don't get the TZ mod Then, when receiving damage, the demon will emit Charged

Bolts, which also curse enemies. You might even have to use

Death Mark sometimes to throw the demon into the crowd. Sometimes it's enough to take a step to the side for the demon to rush into the crowd of enemies, this works especially well with Lister.

When binding a demon, the number of players does not matter, this demon can withstand ranged attacks even from T5 heralds!
In addition, the big demon prevents the Death of your stupid mercenary, who is actually the carrier of the dmg-auras.



Now a few words about

Willowisp:

https://www.theamazonbasin.com/wiki/index.php/Lightning

Lightning

Bolts are size 2, which means that they can collide with more than one target simultaneously. Although Last Collide is enabled, since

Bolts are not destroyed upon collision a single bolt can collide alternately with two adjacent targets as it passes through them, potentially applying its lightning damage twice to each target before it is out of range.

If you raise your mercenary's resistances, you will live peacefully when confronted with souls. But if the souls have a

Conviction aura, it is a 100% Death. In this case, to increase survivability, you need to use

Metalgrid to create an

Iron Golem from the paladin shield. Shield must be 41AllRes + 4socPdia (76AllRes). But it's worth noting that this won't protect you from Diablo's lightning, as it deals physical damage in addition to lightnng damage.

Also, this trick with the demon will not save you from Blizzard,

Frost Nova,

Bone Fetish, although it will protect you from fire/poison breath and poison clouds. You are still susceptible to melee attacks, but if you keep your distance using

Echoing Strike or another build, you are always safe.


In short, bury your Hephasto once and for all, you just need Enigma and a big-size demon.

I wrote this post so I wouldn't have to explain everything every time, but rather just provide a link. It's up to you to figure out how to use this information.

Yeah idk man before I read all that I just wanna say my Heph minion (obtained through Hell P8 TZ) w/ Fana+Cursed+Stone Skin (hence PI) + Extra Strong + Extra Fast objectively does NOT suck.

He's kind of like Sonic the Hedgehog, if Sonic the hedgehog were a tank with a hammer that tear-asses all over the map cursing everything in sight. Physical immunes and most everything else in Hell difficulty gets obliterated thanks to his solid support.

Played all the way through hardcore hell on P8 (never once took it off P8), AND did Ubers, and throughout all that I think I saw his health bar maybe get to like 80-85% like once or twice.

Being big size demon (Lister,

Blunderbore, even

Tainted) is annoying for me as it get stuck after

Teleport.
I like Meph with his suicidal temperament that instantly engage enemies.
I had Lister and didn't like it so much. The knockback was even worse, I died once because of that. He moved a enemy that charged at me after that.
So, Heph it is for me.

Without reading the original post

Hephesto so far is doing more good than harm( in terms of being useless)

In fact, he runs so fast, he basicaly clear most mobs infront of me as i stroll down Chaos n other corridors to the point where my hazeem couldnt even get a hit in to activate his might aura…

I actually had the

Blunderbore once, he was also good, but too slow for me.

Maybe i will bind lister later assuming he has the affixes im looking for during that time

No mention of

Corrupt Rogue Spearwoman or

Vile Mother makes this an immediate write-off.

In any case, anything in this post will likely become obsolete once the new patch lands and we can see where they settle w/ Cursed.

09426725 wrote: 1 hour ago

No mention of

Corrupt Rogue Spearwoman or

Vile Mother makes this an immediate write-off.

In any case, anything in this post will likely become obsolete once the new patch lands and we can see where they settle w/ Cursed.

The post has been updated.