killing baal with hdin?

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papyrus

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killing baal with hdin?

I must be a newbie here.....

It takes me forever and countless pots (hammerdin) to kill baal (my merc died).
Funny things are I dont have any problem with chaos, diablo, meph, throne..... just baal. He seems not affected at all by my hammer.

Any suggestion?
 
By not affected do you mean he seems to take no damage? There are certain places monsters can be and not be affected by the hammers, because of the way they spiral. If baal is next to you on your right/east side, or if he is directly south of you, as in right next to you, i believe he'll be outside the spiral of the hammers....
 
Option 1. Assuming you are using an ACT II merc, give him a Kelpie Snare. The 'slows target by 75%' means that once he pokes Baal with it a few times, he'll be unable to launch attacks, summon his clone and appendages, teleport, or pretty much anything. Then it's just a matter of aiming the hammers. I do this by getting just below and slightly to the left of Baal, so that the hammers hit him as soon as they come out.

Option 2. Don't use hammers. Instead, load up on crushing blow equipment and use Smite. You only need one point in it, and it will always hit. Guillaume's Face and Goblin Toe or Gore Riders are popular choices for crushing blow.

- Noodle
 
I load up my hammerdin's mercenary with crushing blow, so that he takes down Baal's life very quickly, and my hammers just finish him off.
 
I just wanted to mf on him. I have tried many positions to hammer him, but I guess his position was not correct. I will experiment again today to find the best spot to hammer him and I will give some CB for my merc.

His health got reduce around 1 mm in about 1 minute? and sometimes it did not move at all, thats why it took so long to kill him. My hdin damage is around 9K and he can tele too.
 
My hammer does around 11k dmg, and I also have problems with baal, I can kill him without to much trouble, it just takes VERY long. Baal @ P1 takes just as long as Diablo @ P8.. Don't know for sure, but I think baal has pretty high magic resistance.
 
The effectiveness of my hammers depends on where I am standing in relation to baal. I am usually constantly teleing to make sure my hammers aren't missing him. I don't use merc's with my hdin's, so I usually end up using a pot or two on him.
 
I run him on /players 3 wit my hammerdin, and go through one mana potion. He goes down within a minute or so.

- Noodle
 
Just namelock+tele on him and hammer.
Thats what I always do and maybe use 1 pot.
If your merc is on low life then tele away from baal and let him leech on the tenticles.
Rinse and repeat until dead.

Treat baal as a PvP char, namelock+tele FTW.
 
lots of crushing blow on your merc is the easiest way to go.

but if you're soloing baal p8 you should have gear switch so you can smite him and then hammer.
 
well there is a great difference in killing act 1 - act 4 bosses compared to Baal for me. my hdin does 14k damage.
the life bar of baal goes down much much slower. thats for 1 player map.

with 8 players, the life bar slighty twitched.
 
depends in what kind of game youre trying to kill him in

he is touph in 8 player games even with correct positioning and good damage

Usually, when I run baals in pubs, I dont bother killing him because it takes so long(125 fcr, 14k hammers).
 
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9k hammers is plenty enough damage to take down Baal.

My hammers do 13k and he dies in about 10 seconds.

It shouldn't take long. You must be missing w/ hammers.
 
Baal has a LOT more life than any other act boss AFAIK.
But with Blessed Hammer he should go down prettty fast. Are you sure you are hitting him with your hammer?

Try the Smite+crushing blow option. Increases you speed alot.
 
I always found killing baal with an hdin was bit slow. I prefer to use a lightning sorceress with a merc that holds infinity and works the fastest for me.
 
either tele derectly ontop of him and hammer away (make sure you name lock him), or theres a sweet spot, just to the right and slightly down of him, you'll notice the difference when you find it. the first hammer should hit him but keep spinning and hit him the second time. thats how I do it. takes me mere seconds with 10K hammers.

and I could be wrong on this but, wether your single player/ or bnet makes a difference. Everyone seems to have less life on bnet. Atleast that's how it seems to me.
 
Baal has more than four times as many hit points as Diablo so taking him down without using Static Field/Crushing Blow/Charged Strike is going to take a while.
 
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