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Back on topic...

Which reminds me: What's his build? I'm curious, that's all. Eventually, we'll all figure out what weaknesses the DC has, but we might as well start gathering info on what seems to be extremely effective against him. Leech? Slow Target? Prevent Heal?

Thank you Orbert! His build is here:

http://www.lurkerlounge.com/forums/index.p...=184&hl=paladin

If I knew how to link to the individual post I would. Sorry.

The Sigon's have been swapped out for LoH and (at the time he met diablo) Water Walk. Boots are now Gore Rider, and Werebear is using Water Walk.

A few minutes before diablo found him, he had switched his amulet to Rising Sun. This was indeed fortunate, as it almost certainly saved his life. Switching to Rising Sun had nothing to do with diablo, and was only done because there were lots of annoying archers pelting us with fire arrows. He had carried Rising Sun for months and months in 1.09 and never used it.

His rogue, Aliza, it turns out was a better archer than the foes. She could easily take them out one by one all by herself, but we were impatient to go in and wack them.

The whole time of our brief conversation with the lord of terror we were standing in diablo's Armageddon, and the seventy something fire absorb from Rising Sun certainly did help. For whatever reason, I don't think diablo was connecting very often, as I never saw the meteor trigger from Rising Sun. Actually I thought at first that diablo's Armageddon *was* my meteor!

For offense I had the four frame Zeal (I think, as I am never quite sure about such things). Zeal is his only attack. He started with Fanaticism (what else would one expect from a fanatic zealot?) but switched to Conviction when diablo's life bar was at about two thirds.

I think my hero was hitting fairly well as his life ball was staying pretty full. This is a low mana build and he has no mana steal. From charms he does a respectable amount of lightning and poison damage. At the time he had no PMH or open wounds. With exception of the amulet, he was still set up for 1.09.

Most of his damage is fire damage. You may have read that his backup weapon is Todesfaelle Flamme, which grants a level 10 enchant. As it happens his sister sorceress was in the game and had kindly provided her level 34 enchant. This lasts for sixteen minutes and adds about 2000 average fire damage per hit.

Another thing I did not at first realize is that enchant grants a huge AR bonus in the patch. With Conviction his AR was unfortunately down to about 10,000 but his chance to hit according to the character screen was 74%. Zeal now, I understand, is also non-interruptible.

Too bad he had not yet put his 21 remaining skill points (19 anyway) into Sacrifice for the synergy. Zeal damage and hence life leech would have been much higher. It's a shame to have to waste perfectly good potions.

Another source of damage is the +668% damage to demons property. Again, I'm not clear exactly how this adds in. I think just on the physical. The displayed average damage on the character screen was about 3000.

As to future plans, I think I may add PMH to Aliza. Diablo killed her by the way. She was decked out in her roguish magic find. I do not know how PMH combines with poison in 1.10. From what I have read poison breaks PMH in 1.09. Has this been fixed, I wonder, in the patch?