hewhodiesalot
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is dragonscale zakuram shield a good shield for this build also?
The 1pt smiter guide to Uber Tristram v 1.0.
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kingdryland1
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Dragonscale has nice defense,fire absorb and base smite damage. It has poor block and lacks protection from cold and lightning. If you decide to use it you'll need resists from elsewhere, but without getting anything in return,really.
hewhodiesalot
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i could always socket it with a pdiamond or um, but that wont help againsnt mephs mighty conviction, i mine always get it since this guy is selling for cheap.
kingdryland1
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I have one in my mules left,and I will plan a build that will actually can use it effectively.
hewhodiesalot
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kingdryland said:
o cool like a fireball pally? neways i got my hands on griswolds shield, i know its in the middle class and poor class, but i am worried about the defense (mine is 319.) isnt that kinda low? my gear is as follows:
guilames face
duress
ik belt
heavens light (x2 shael)
gris shield(102 res)
gores
dracs
manald ring
ravenfrost ring
ammy? ( should i get metalgrid even with the huge res bonus from gris?)
ya idk if im going to survive ubers.. can u help me?
hewhodiesalot said:
The first time everybody fights the ubers, they're gaurentied to have a bad time. Either you'll 1) rush in there too quick and meph + one or two other ubers gangbang you, or 2) run from them at first sight and get spammed by more baddies than you can handle.
It would have helped me out my first time if I knew exactly how much to overstack my resists. A good way to know if you have enough resists is to take off +100 all resist, if you still have max resists, you'll be safe enough to kill meph with your gear. But on your first time, I'd do this test with +115-120 resist all. Meph throws out all sorts of mages with all sorts of elemental damage, don't be confident with just lightning/cold resist. If you think I'm being paranoid, take on an extra fast/extra strong/special hit/lightning enhanced monster pack with zero resists. That's a good simulation of how dangerous uber meph gets if you don't stack 80+ all resists.
HoboGod said:
What do you think Sanctuary aura might be work against uber minions? (nice knockback in 1-1.5 sec)
Or Holy freeze is more safe?
(maybe with lifetap on the monsters + sanctuary merc can stay alive (with 90 or 95 poison resist)... But i know its very hard but it will be a dream...
and maybe at the last part of Mefikill switch to fana or concentration for more damage.
And:
Mefi's minions do physical and poison damage don't it?
And Mefi does cold/lightning.
Or?
And on the end: Dracul's 5% is enough for replenish lifetap??
Yes we can use lvl5 life tap wand at the begining of fight but during hunting it might be not too lucky.
My great problem is about that is i lose +20 IAS and huge Demon bonuses (Laying of hands)... But more damage is not a matter when i die
Skinhead On The MBTA
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The runeword with lvl 16-18 Sanctuary Aura is Lawbringer - AmnLemKo in three socket swords/hammers/scepters. Also gives CTC Decrepify, Life Leech (doesn't matter for ubers), fire and cold damage, -50% target defense, and Slain Monsters R.I.P., which I would think is pretty useful for Uber Trist - I've not done it yet, but I've heard about monsters getting ressurected as soon as they die.
I don't reccomend lawbringer considering decrepify on striking would cancel out life tap. If you want to use sanctuary in uber battle, azurewrath is the only option, otherwise forget about it.
Holy Freeze I have found to work VERY well, but low damage played a big role as suspected. Without being able to tap large amounts of life per hit, mephisto's critical can become an issue. To counter this, you'll have to get some combat skill charms to raise smite damage or put physical points in smite (which will have an affect on what zeal's damage could be.) And don't forget to max smiting speed! If that means you have a 6 shael phase blade on swap, then so be it.
Meph sometimes spawns skeliton archers with lightning damage and some physical damage, but most of the time, just mages. Mephisto himself does lightning/cold/poison/physical.
6 fps smite hits roughly 4 times per seconds. 5% chance to cast life tap means the probablity is 1 in 20 hits. So therefor, life tap will probably be recast sometime every 5 seconds of smiting. Level 5 life tap lasts 6 seconds in hell, giving you just enough time to cast a new life tap with dracs (as long as you don't luck out.) And once you get the level 10 life tap from dracs, it will last about 10 seconds, more than enough time to replenish itself (as long as you don't really luck out.)
Holy Freeze I have found to work VERY well, but low damage played a big role as suspected. Without being able to tap large amounts of life per hit, mephisto's critical can become an issue. To counter this, you'll have to get some combat skill charms to raise smite damage or put physical points in smite (which will have an affect on what zeal's damage could be.) And don't forget to max smiting speed! If that means you have a 6 shael phase blade on swap, then so be it.
Horpeti said:And:
Mefi's minions do physical and poison damage don't it?
And Mefi does cold/lightning.
Or?
Meph sometimes spawns skeliton archers with lightning damage and some physical damage, but most of the time, just mages. Mephisto himself does lightning/cold/poison/physical.
Horpeti said:And on the end: Dracul's 5% is enough for replenish lifetap??
Yes we can use lvl5 life tap wand at the begining of fight but during hunting it might be not too lucky.
My great problem is about that is i lose +20 IAS and huge Demon bonuses (Laying of hands)... But more damage is not a matter when i die
6 fps smite hits roughly 4 times per seconds. 5% chance to cast life tap means the probablity is 1 in 20 hits. So therefor, life tap will probably be recast sometime every 5 seconds of smiting. Level 5 life tap lasts 6 seconds in hell, giving you just enough time to cast a new life tap with dracs (as long as you don't luck out.) And once you get the level 10 life tap from dracs, it will last about 10 seconds, more than enough time to replenish itself (as long as you don't really luck out.)
HoboGod said:
Yes, This is my opinion... With Sanctuary aura i can keep staying alive my Holy freeze merc
)If i give sanctuary its better than i give holy freeze ( he can kill skeles, make skeles to busy)
But its no way using sanct aura's blades... If my merc can wear...
I dont agree with you in life tap time. I had thought the same when i saw that life tap is not AI course, so it doesn't have 1/4 count... lvl 5 lifetap works for 2x seconds... i count it
) So lvl 10 is also great
))Lightsabre with 25% lightning absorb and great speed seems very good but i think i will have not enough smite damage...
I build an 1 point smite+1 point fana Hammerpally cause i dont like another pallys... So my only chance will be the work with grief. Cause my Holy shield lvl will be lvl 7 (hard points) on lvl 90 if i will use sanctuary aura.
(i also put fana, redemption, salvation, sanc , conviction(?))... He is a helper/hammerpally for the greatest teamwork...
I cost from my holy shield (about 8 skills if i will use sanctuary aura, but im thinking about that... sanctuary only need against ubermefis minions... But i think i can solve this problem in another way)
So Ubers will be very hard to me with this build but i dont want to do any smiter/zealer, so that is the gold middle way
)))Pls watch my another topic called: IAS question.
This is very important notice i think!!!
Becaouse i see some paradoxons...
thx
AnimeCraze
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You cannot stun ubers.
Uchiha Sasuke
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My pally had resists that were all under zero... without meph's damn conviction and I killed him just fine..... course I died a few times but it still only took 5-10 minutes
