Post patch ancients

I did uber ancients 3x yesterday with my smiter, and then I realised that after the patch they were way stronger than before. I managed to successfully kill them first two times and but during the last one, I got too scared by how fast I lost my hp, so I had to leave the game. Yes, I play HC. Might try again with more res and with a merc.

OK, I made it. I put

Um to my

Guillaume's Face for more res and buffed myself with

Fade so I got all the resists above 300%.

Korlic and

Madawc were fast and easy to kill but

Talic killed me and I couldnt get my corpse back (I´ve been killed again and again). I was quite desperate but then I managed to pick up the corpse and left through the portal (I though this will

Revive the rest of the ancients as it is with normal ones, haha). Then I buffed myself again and killed

Talic. It´s really tough but doable with smiter. Thanks for all the advice here.

Today I did my first Colossal Ancients post patch run with my Fury hardcore druid. Two times I did this before the patch and it was relatively easy even without BiS gear. In these two attempts I ran to the ancient at the top and smacked him down quickly,

Korlic I killed last (since I wanted a protectors Stone jewel). The zoo made it possible to keep the ancients seperated.

This time I kinda had BiS gear (Death, CoH, Meta). But, things did not go as planned. I went through the portal and spawned the ancients. Then I thought: "Hey wait a minute, my zoo is lagging behind." After this second of hesitation they all jumped on me in the middle. It was Chaos and it was difficult to seprate the three ancients.

I headed back to town five times to resummon the zoo and get the job finally done. Overall, I did not have a real close call but in one situation I thought: "Damn, this might be the end right here right now..." On one of my escapes I missed the portal and got stuck and surrounded behind it.

On top of all I got a cold jewel. A relatively good one, but not the one I wanted. Well, the good thing is I get to live another day.

In the next few days I will test it again and I will see if things go better if you get the first ancient down much quicker seperated from the others.