07-06-2012, 07:37 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-06-2012, 07:39 PM by FireIceTalon.)
(07-06-2012, 10:47 AM)ViralSpiral Wrote: While we've got a HC thread here - how do you all manage Belial? Every difficulty except Normal he always kills me at least one. His fists hardly ever hit me, if at all. I can either corner squeeze or blow my damage mitigator against his breath. But when he fills the platform full of poison puddles, they tend to last over ten seconds and do insane damage. I had to eventually join a public game to kill him in Hell on a L57 Wizard with 245 poison resist and 34K hp and 63% or so DR. Those poison pools could drop me in five seconds flat through 15K of DSkin and the above stats. Kiting almost never works because he turns 90% of the platform into puddles, and I'm rarely anywhere near the safe 10% when he starts. No one else seems to find him the brick wall I do. Butcher's easy if you stay near the edges of panels so you can hop off if they light up, Azmodan is a joke at a distance, and Diablo's melee is so bad he'll back off to use his ranged attacks. Belial gets me every time though.
I had similar issues vs Belial on Inferno with my Wiz, and had to join a group to beat him. But I think the key vs Belial is to have a very offensive build, at least as a Wiz (I can't speak for the other classes): 4 offensive skills, 2 defensive ones. The puddles are indeed very much a pain in the arse, but the best way of dealing with them was to use DS with Crystal Shell rune, and stay near the outer edge of the platform and just run like a mad man, lol. The minute he stuck his arms in the ground, I knew what was coming and casted Crystal Shell immediately and just ran in a zig zag pattern to avoid as many of the explosions as possible. I was able to survive most of the time this way, and the hardest thing about bringing him down was that I was a bit short on DPS. To beat him, I actually ended up forgoing the use of teleport (insane, I know) in favor of another offensive skill. But this was only because we simply were not doing enough damage to him - we would get his health down to about 95% only to have him enrage and we all died in one hit. But when I switched out telly for Venom Hydra, he was a goner. That extra DPS over time really made all the difference.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)