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Patch 3.3

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mikelessar `779`

8 hours ago (pre-Resurrected)

starskyj wrote: 10 hours ago

In patch 3.2 they drastically buffed colosal ancients their the hardest content in the game now literally 5x harder than ubers. The ancients damage was drastically buffed along with their survivabiity, they can easily kill a lvl99 bound demon, that was bound with a lvl 50 Bind Demon skill. So after the nerfs and the massive damage nerf of basically a 66 percent damage nerf to bound demon in patch 3.3

It appears so that the new Uber Ancients are harder than Uber Tristram. But it is really just a matter of the right gear and skills to confront them.

With the Uber Ancients, you really have to prioritise defense.

Get at least 85% better 95% fire, cold and lightning resistances. Guardian Angel is the Key item here. Exile and/or Dracul's Grasp are great, too, like in Uber Tristram. Get 285 or 295 fire, cold and lightning resistances in total because each Uber Ancient has a " Conviction" aura of -100% to his element. And hell difficulty also has a -100 "debuff". Poison res does not matter at all. The paladin's Salvation aura is great and much better here than Fanaticism.

Flat elemental damage reduction or absorb is also a good idea (fire: Dwarf Star, cold: Raven Frost, lightning: Thundergod's Vigor or Wisp Projector).

With this defensive setup and a CTA, the Uber Ancients' damage is "managable." Then you "just" have to find a way to deal damage. Smiter with Grief and Crushing Blow items ( Guillaume's Face and Goblin Toe) is still king here. For amulet I use The Cat's Eye to hit the fastest attack speed breakpoint but there are many other options, too.

Bertram The Cursed `35`

2 hours ago (pre-Resurrected)

vued wrote: 9 hours ago

starskyj wrote: 11 hours ago
[...] Now players with mid-teir gear will have no chance at doing any end game content [...]
Read this out aloud and you might understand why this change was necessary.

A change was necessary. If this ends up that nobody put more than 1 skillpoint into Bind Demon cause its not worth, than the changes are super bad.

Schnorki `5570`Moderator

41 minutes ago (pre-Resurrected)

Bertram The Cursed wrote: 2 hours ago

vued wrote: 9 hours ago

starskyj wrote: 11 hours ago
[...] Now players with mid-teir gear will have no chance at doing any end game content [...]
Read this out aloud and you might understand why this change was necessary.
A change was necessary. If this ends up that nobody put more than 1 skillpoint into Bind Demon cause its not worth, than the changes are super bad.

It doesn't.
Bind Demon is still crazy good. Especially in a proper demon build.
I honestly don't get people complaining about that nerf/fix/whatever. It was absolutely overdue and really didn't go too far by any means. Then again, people always go "OMG BROKEN AND UNUSABLE NOW" whenever something gets nerfed, no matter how justified or small of a nerf it may have been so..mweh.