Post patch ancients

I did uber ancients x3 yesterday with my smiter, and then I realised that after the patch they were way stronger than before. I managed to successfully kill them on my first two attempts and but on the 3rd run, 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.

So I now did two additional runs with my hardcore Fury druid. Both times it worked out quite well since I was able to kill

Talic quickly. The zoo kept the others busy. My Merc has

Kelpie Snare, Kira's and Treachery. As a resullt he has maxed fire and cold resistances (in case you use thawing potions) even before the

Fade proc. He will not survive the whole fight but if he lands a hit with the

Kelpie Snare the slowing effect is certainly very helpful.

The sad thing is I now have a total of 4 cold jewels out of 5 runs Damn, looks like I need to collect more statues...

Is it easier to kill them with Mosaic

Phoenix Strike assassin?

PinacaTheGreat wrote: 8 hours ago

Is it easier to kill them with Mosaic

Phoenix Strike assassin?

It is for sure. Buff with

Fade to get 280+ res and use

Dragon Claw.

Flyhorse wrote: 8 hours ago

PinacaTheGreat wrote: 8 hours ago

Is it easier to kill them with Mosaic

Phoenix Strike assassin?

It is for sure. Buff with

Fade to get 280+ res and use

Dragon Claw.

Great, maybe i try it with Assassin 1st, never try it before, haha

I did my first Uber ancients and

Uber Tristram using a smiter and the

Guardian Angel tip. I did not upgrade

Guardian Angel but I did socket an

Um. I also prebuffed

Fade. It was all super easy.

i kill them regularly with my zon, but rogue merc normally doesn't survive despite kira's, coh, Faith... the only thing one could improve is socket kira's .. with what?
or use

Crown of Ages.. and socket it with what??
res are all overstacked, and mdr / pdr bonuses are laughable compared to ancients' dmg values