Best merc set up for Smiter Uber Ancient

Pitach wrote: 3 days ago

BigD wrote: 3 days ago

Pitach wrote: 3 days ago

you need 20 ias on those gloves and 10 crushing blow
everything else is optional
also change your gore riders with upgraded goblin toes, for even more crushing blow

Smiter does not need IAS on the gloves if you're running Highlord's.

If you have any

Phase Blade base and => level 20

Fanaticism, 10% IAS is all you need to hit the max 6FPA breakpoint. This is why Dracul's are ideal.

Don't change the

Gore Rider for

Goblin Toe.

Gore Rider >

Goblin Toe.
Especially when you're suggesting for him to swap out Dracul's for

Blood Gloves already - doing that and swapping in

Goblin Toe would leave him with no Open Wounds anywhere on his gear, which is no bueno. OW is mandatory for Uber content.

If you already have Exile and Dracul's, you can swap Last Wish for Grief for more damage. Grief will cut down their health bars much quicker towards the end, especially because CB is based off remaining life, not total life.

Dual leech on the ring is useless for

Smite,

Smite doesn't apply life & mana leech except for Life-tapped targets.

Dwarf Star for fire absorb would be much better - plus the Magic Damage Reduction and +Life.

CoH is ok, I'd use

Guardian Angel instead for lots more damage reduction against the fire whirlwinds and blizzard + cold

Fissure attacks, which have been buffed to do alot more damage recently. Or Fortitude if you don't have

Guardian Angel, because the 300% enhanced damage on Fortitude applies to

Smite and will boost your damage significantly.

I never said im running highlords myself
I have a maras
now all things considered, I am very curious how fast your smiter kills ubers and if you have done these tests yourself, because I have
Grief as main weapon is nothing compared to Last Wish, even tho in the end your statement is right, CB does that damage, Grief damage to ubers until ubers go down to 5% of hp is very low.
my smiter kills

Mephisto 5-6 seconds on the clock,

Baal and diablo between 9-12 seconds each, a complete run from the moment ive logged my character until I log off takes 1 minute and 30 seconds roughly, including opening portals looting torch and all, oh and I also have no rejuvenation.

BigD wrote: 3 days ago

Pitach wrote: 3 days ago

Lyrix wrote: 3 days ago

Yes, my current build is
Last Wish
Exile
CoH
Highlord
CoA with 2 bers
Dracs

Raven Frost
Dual leech ring

Gore Rider
Verdungo

For

Blood Gloves, what prio stats should I be looking at?

you need 20 ias on those gloves and 10 crushing blow
everything else is optional
also change your gore riders with upgraded goblin toes, for even more crushing blow

Smiter does not need IAS on the gloves if you're running Highlord's.

If you have any

Phase Blade base and => level 20

Fanaticism, 10% IAS is all you need to hit the max 6FPA breakpoint. This is why Dracul's are ideal.

Don't change the

Gore Rider for

Goblin Toe.

Gore Rider >

Goblin Toe.
Especially when you're suggesting for him to swap out Dracul's for

Blood Gloves already - doing that and swapping in

Goblin Toe would leave him with no Open Wounds anywhere on his gear, which is no bueno. OW is mandatory for Uber content.

If you already have Exile and Dracul's, you can swap Last Wish for Grief for more damage. Grief will cut down their health bars much quicker towards the end, especially because CB is based off remaining life, not total life.

Dual leech on the ring is useless for

Smite,

Smite doesn't apply life & mana leech except for Life-tapped targets.

Dwarf Star for fire absorb would be much better - plus the Magic Damage Reduction and +Life.

CoH is ok, I'd use

Guardian Angel instead for lots more damage reduction against the fire whirlwinds and blizzard + cold

Fissure attacks, which have been buffed to do alot more damage recently. Or Fortitude if you don't have

Guardian Angel, because the 300% enhanced damage on Fortitude applies to

Smite and will boost your damage significantly.

Lyrix wrote: 3 days ago

BigD wrote: 3 days ago

Pitach wrote: 3 days ago

you need 20 ias on those gloves and 10 crushing blow
everything else is optional
also change your gore riders with upgraded goblin toes, for even more crushing blow

Smiter does not need IAS on the gloves if you're running Highlord's.

If you have any

Phase Blade base and => level 20

Fanaticism, 10% IAS is all you need to hit the max 6FPA breakpoint. This is why Dracul's are ideal.

Don't change the

Gore Rider for

Goblin Toe.

Gore Rider >

Goblin Toe.
Especially when you're suggesting for him to swap out Dracul's for

Blood Gloves already - doing that and swapping in

Goblin Toe would leave him with no Open Wounds anywhere on his gear, which is no bueno. OW is mandatory for Uber content.

If you already have Exile and Dracul's, you can swap Last Wish for Grief for more damage. Grief will cut down their health bars much quicker towards the end, especially because CB is based off remaining life, not total life.

Dual leech on the ring is useless for

Smite,

Smite doesn't apply life & mana leech except for Life-tapped targets.

Dwarf Star for fire absorb would be much better - plus the Magic Damage Reduction and +Life.

CoH is ok, I'd use

Guardian Angel instead for lots more damage reduction against the fire whirlwinds and blizzard + cold

Fissure attacks, which have been buffed to do alot more damage recently. Or Fortitude if you don't have

Guardian Angel, because the 300% enhanced damage on Fortitude applies to

Smite and will boost your damage significantly.

I am on single player offline, got to keep the next GA I find, cuz I have been throwing them away. What to socket in the GA?
I will swap out the dual leech ring for a

Dwarf Star and will try out with Fortitude.

For

Tristram Ancient, I would swap Dungos for Thundergod and the dual leech for Wisp, the rest I keep the same and I can handle them no issues of course, any optimization?

ganseng wrote: 2 days ago

I killed the ancients a few times with the self wield Infinity zon and rogue scout merc. I think i always gave the merc bis gear: Faith,

Kira's Guardian and ethereal Chains of Honor. she miraculously survived once, all the other times she was puffed away almost instantly together with the

Valkyrie

Lyrix wrote: 2 days ago

ganseng wrote: 2 days ago

I killed the ancients a few times with the self wield Infinity zon and rogue scout merc. I think i always gave the merc bis gear: Faith,

Kira's Guardian and ethereal Chains of Honor. she miraculously survived once, all the other times she was puffed away almost instantly together with the

Valkyrie

Are you getting all the aggro ?

ganseng wrote: 2 days ago

Lyrix wrote: 2 days ago

ganseng wrote: 2 days ago

I killed the ancients a few times with the self wield Infinity zon and rogue scout merc. I think i always gave the merc bis gear: Faith,

Kira's Guardian and ethereal Chains of Honor. she miraculously survived once, all the other times she was puffed away almost instantly together with the

Valkyrie

Are you getting all the aggro ?

not sure how do you mean? do the remaining become stronger after you kill the first ones? I think so. Do they target me primarily? I think everybody

I'm kinda busy right klicking them and pressing 1,2,3 and 4 when I do it

Pitach wrote: 3 days ago

BigD wrote: 3 days ago

Pitach wrote: 3 days ago

you need 20 ias on those gloves and 10 crushing blow
everything else is optional
also change your gore riders with upgraded goblin toes, for even more crushing blow

Smiter does not need IAS on the gloves if you're running Highlord's.

If you have any

Phase Blade base and => level 20

Fanaticism, 10% IAS is all you need to hit the max 6FPA breakpoint. This is why Dracul's are ideal.

Don't change the

Gore Rider for

Goblin Toe.

Gore Rider >

Goblin Toe.
Especially when you're suggesting for him to swap out Dracul's for

Blood Gloves already - doing that and swapping in

Goblin Toe would leave him with no Open Wounds anywhere on his gear, which is no bueno. OW is mandatory for Uber content.

If you already have Exile and Dracul's, you can swap Last Wish for Grief for more damage. Grief will cut down their health bars much quicker towards the end, especially because CB is based off remaining life, not total life.

Dual leech on the ring is useless for

Smite,

Smite doesn't apply life & mana leech except for Life-tapped targets.

Dwarf Star for fire absorb would be much better - plus the Magic Damage Reduction and +Life.

CoH is ok, I'd use

Guardian Angel instead for lots more damage reduction against the fire whirlwinds and blizzard + cold

Fissure attacks, which have been buffed to do alot more damage recently. Or Fortitude if you don't have

Guardian Angel, because the 300% enhanced damage on Fortitude applies to

Smite and will boost your damage significantly.

I never said im running highlords myself
I have a maras
now all things considered, I am very curious how fast your smiter kills ubers and if you have done these tests yourself, because I have
Grief as main weapon is nothing compared to Last Wish, even tho in the end your statement is right, CB does that damage, Grief damage to ubers until ubers go down to 5% of hp is very low.
my smiter kills

Mephisto 5-6 seconds on the clock,

Baal and diablo between 9-12 seconds each, a complete run from the moment ive logged my character until I log off takes 1 minute and 30 seconds roughly, including opening portals looting torch and all, oh and I also have no rejuvenation.

Tornado_OLO wrote: 1 hour ago

Death in ethereal BA on

Frenzy barb FTW.

BigD wrote: 38 minutes ago

BOTD + Death in dual

Eth Berserker Axes ideally, if u can get your hands on those bases and those runes.