Uber Ancients builds (post 3.3)

ganseng wrote: 13 hours ago

can you post your full gear and post-cta life on the strafezon pls? merc and valk probably die too fast to matter don't they?

Hypertarg wrote: 1 day ago

My most reliable uber ancient killer is my Strafe zon (it's my favorite build and I wanted to figure how to clear everything in game). I run CoH, Verdungo's, and prebuff Fade to live and the rest is offense. I hold down Strafe and lifesteal to live. It doesn't need pots and has just enough life to not get one shot, but Korlic always dies first, which is annoying for a physical build.

I then gave my Tesladin Exile and tried a non respec Smite build. It worked fine on the first attempt easily killing everything. After that, I would sometimes have a hard time. It really seemed to boil down to killing Talic before he started moving too much. Once he did ww, there were too many adds to reliably click on him and kill him before he healed. I eventually learned to just reset and try again. With Life Tap on Exile living wasn't an issue. I think it just boiled down to if CB proced enough early to get him low. I prebuffed Fade and geared him to live with as much CB as I could muster. With some tinkering it mostly works, but is not very exciting.

Faith in a GMB with a +2/14 roll. Horazon's Hold, Chains of Honor, Gface (with a Protector's Stone, once I got one), Verdungo's cord, Gore Rider, Atma's Scarab (to kill faster), Raven Frost, and a rare dual leach ring. Level 94, with some points in vit, but most in dex. I haven't made cta, so my life was just over 1200. For charms I have enough resistance to get 275% with Fade prebuffed from Treachery. The rest are +damage charms, a physical sunder with -resistance, a good anni, and a pretty good torch.

Pre-patch my valk would distract Taric for quite a while, now she is gone immediately. I stand between pillars south of the alter to be slightly less surrounded. My merc usually lives for 30 seconds or so, but is A1 and doesn't have any important gear. I hold down Strafe and hope to live until the first ancient goes down. I will get dangerously low on life for a moment, but leech it back. Once the first one is down, then I can actually move around safely and target the next one to kill. I died a few times while initially getting it to work, but once I added verdungo's and the Protector's Stone and removed dracul's, I was able to consistently live.

Life Tap turned out to be unnecessary. I think it comes down to there are contently Arrows hitting targets and having 16% leech is enough that one arrow is a full heal. As long as I don't get hit by all the elemental effects at the exact same time, I can live. The fight only lasts a couple of minutes and if it were to go longer than the Fade buff, I would be toast. Dodge and avoid are around 40%, so I imagine that also helps. It's a bit harrowing, but I do enjoy trying to make off-meta things work.

Hypertarg wrote: 1 hour ago

I haven't made cta, so my life was just over 1200

Thats the craziest part of it all. Great stuff.