Uber Ancients post 3.2

M1ck wrote: 4 weeks ago

Mosaic assuming non ladder.

Did you test it? Was considering that one, too.

I got my smiter pala with Last Wish as weapon, custom

Blood Gloves with crushing blow and 20 ias, goblin toes, COH,

Crown of Ages +

Ber, zakarum with ias jewel

ooof managed to do it on 2nd try. secret was

Infernostride on the zon and

Kira's Guardian on the rogue. had to go back to town once to

Revive the merc and refill the potions. still think the difficulty is a little overboard

felt like a 10 second event with my Mosaic assassin and she got a nice jewel upgrade for her griffons

Knusper1 wrote: 3 weeks ago

felt like a 10 second event with my Mosaic assassin and she got a nice jewel upgrade for her griffons

Mentioned this earlier on all summons get wiped instantly in the spam, never felt in any danger. In most cases Mosaic is the answer ;0


Not helpful for ladder though ofc.

There was "little" danger when they moved while I was in kick animation. life drops fast when you cannot leech...

Case this helps others, farming 3.2 ancients with a lvl 94 fohdin/smiter pally, using 0-1 rejuvs per fight.

Health doesn't drop below 75% (then instantly refills) once

Life Tap procs.

Targeting 300 fire and lighting resist, then proccing

Fade from a Treachery in highlands before swapping to Enigma and starting the fight. Probably unnecessary but prefer to be safe.

Strategy: Turn on walk,

Fanaticism, start fight,

Smite, done in around a minute. I find after the first ancient dies I have to

Smite a few adds dead to easily target the next ancient periodically, each add dying in about 1-3 smites. Act 2 merc dies after 1st ancient dies.

Grief
Upped

Herald Of Zakarum with

Um

Guillaume's Face with

Um
Enigma

Mara's Kaleidoscope (30 resists)

Dwarf Star

Wisp Projector (15% light absorb)

Dracul's Grasp for

Life Tap

Verdungo's Hearty Cord (15% physical dmg resist)

Horazon's Legacy

Swap: 3/6/1 Call To Arms and Spirit

Charms: 1 x 5 res sc, 3 x 13-15 all resist grand charms, then quite a few 10-11 lightning/fire res sc's mixed in with 2 skill gc's.

Annihilus,

Hellfire Torch of course. No sunder gc.

10 hard points in

Smite, 20 in

Holy Shield, 20 in

Fanaticism.
Base stats: 25 strength, 80 dexterity for max block, 440 vitality, 15 energy.

Did a run this morning on my 97

Frenzy barb.

dual Grief PB
Dwarf's Star

Raven Frost
Fortitude armor

Dracul's Grasp
Thundergod's Visor / Verdungo Cord (swapped after

Madawc's Death)
Goreriders
Rising Sun/

Metalgrid (Swap after

Talic's Death)



This time with dracul's and rising sun amulet. Was pretty cake. Started with

Life Tap

Wand as well just to have a buff on. Merc tanked

Talic for a few seconds before succumbing to a few hits.

Also was targetting

Madawc first as I was going for a

Protector's Stone. This probably made it a lot easier since he was easiest to take down and quickly. Seperating him at the beginning also helps. The spawns would almost die instantly and help proc the dracul's lifetap from the

Frenzy auto target.

Resist were all around 270% with

Fade from Treachery.

hmm what's the deal with the

Dwarf Star? is it just the 15% fire absorb?

because the ancients deal four-digit dmg, even with max resist normally >500
hence 15 points in mdr are negligible, and other stats are also unimpressive

Uber Ancients are a bitch, not complaining, just makes me rethink my gear. My Smiter dies if I don’t watch carefully. Talia smacks me like a bitch.

ganseng wrote: 3 weeks ago

hmm what's the deal with the

Dwarf Star? is it just the 15% fire absorb?

because the ancients deal four-digit dmg, even with max resist normally >500
hence 15 points in mdr are negligible, and other stats are also unimpressive

Correct me if im wrong, but absorb counts after resist% has been cut of from initial attack. The remaining dmg is lowered by 15% , and whatever that 15% is is also added as hp too the healthpool.

did a few runs.. self-wield Infinity zon certainly can handle them, once you get the hang of it. burned through a ton of potions and

Gold on repairs though

and on the last run, as I was about to complain that only trash ever drops, got this

what to do with it? guess will store next to two perfect fire facets in my sorc's stash