Beginner Friendly Builds for Ubers and/or Colossal Ancients?

Have gotten to a point with my Blizz Sorc that I feel satisfied with their build & ability to do traditional MF runs. Am getting a bit bored with it though, and burn out is always how I would end up losing so many sets of toons to the 90 day quota!

Really would appreciate your input on what is the easiest/cheapest build to make for Ubers/Colossal Ancients after finishing your MF Sorc?

Thanks! I haven't ever really gotten past the point of my initial Sorc build in my previous stints on LOD before burn out & the quota would strike, so am pretty clueless on Ubers/Colossal Ancients. I do have faint memories of attempting to do Ubers on a Sorc long long ago that was not the smoothest of events lmao

Smiters tend to be the go-to as they can handle ubers and such fairly easily, even in more budget gear.

Nowadays (at least until next patch), the same is true for warlocks. Though they at least have a somewhat harder time over-stacking res to avoid getting overly punished by ancients.

Mosaic sins equally make for easy and fairly safe kills but those are now limited to non-ladder and you do need at least the 2 Mosaic to even get started there.

Not the only options but probably the easiest atm.

smiter is the obvious answer on a budget but i'm partial to necro personally i ran ubers this ladder with super cheap gear besides Duress and the Call To Arms, but i traded for a super low one for

Ist

i can't speak on ancients tho, i haven't done them yet :p but i've heard that it's easier

i wrote the same in another thread. skillers & torch in the video etc are not necessary, the core of the build is really just some source of tp charges + Obedience,

Guillaume's Face, Duress on merc

kerph wrote: 10 hours ago

Necro is my absolute fav for ubers. Even with cheap gear i find it to be safer & more reliable than with a comparably priced smiter. & U can actually run other things (cows, Chaos, any high-density areas with

Corpse Explosion) which is what i always disliked about pure smiter

U can make it go a lot faster with urdar revives as well but i never liked the gameplay of depending on other monsters and having to reset the map to scout for them, bleh. So I make do just fine with skeletons & my merc, i made a video on the build I'm using currently Obviously massively improved with self-wield Beast & Enigma & sojs etc

kerph wrote: 2 hours ago

smiter is the obvious answer on a budget but i'm partial to necro personally i ran ubers this ladder with super cheap gear besides Duress and the Call To Arms, but i traded for a super low one for

Ist

i can't speak on ancients tho, i haven't done them yet :p but i've heard that it's easier

i wrote the same in another thread. skillers & torch in the video etc are not necessary, the core of the build is really just some source of tp charges + Obedience,

Guillaume's Face, Duress on merc

kerph wrote: 10 hours ago

Necro is my absolute fav for ubers. Even with cheap gear i find it to be safer & more reliable than with a comparably priced smiter. & U can actually run other things (cows, Chaos, any high-density areas with

Corpse Explosion) which is what i always disliked about pure smiter

U can make it go a lot faster with urdar revives as well but i never liked the gameplay of depending on other monsters and having to reset the map to scout for them, bleh. So I make do just fine with skeletons & my merc, i made a video on the build I'm using currently Obviously massively improved with self-wield Beast & Enigma & sojs etc

So summoner necromancer can do ubers without CB Urdars and merc can survive this encounter?