When to face Diablo?

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Well, the problem here is that most of Diablo's attacks are either weak, or easy to dodge.

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For me Diablo is the toughest boss, I have no difficulty in handling other act bosses, except sometimes Duriel in normal, but there you can self-rush yourself :rolleyes:

There is a reason people go on about Meph- and Baalruns, but not about Diabloruns! It's to dangerous if you play HC :ph34r:

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Yes, Diablo is hard. But unless you're horrifically underleveled (under about 23, maybe), and have no resistances, then he's still not too hard to handle.

Personally, Mephisto's the hardest for me. Well, with ranged characters at least. This is because I find it extremely difficult to dodge his cold orb. It's kind of fast, you know. But, Diablo's attacks are much slower and easier to handle. If he does the lightning breath, then you just have to catch the animation he does beforehand, and start running circles around him; it'll pass just behind you. And with the heavy-damage firsestorm, you just get out of the way. It's not like it's hard to see it coming.

The only attack of consequence that leaves is his cold touch, and that's only dangerous because it makes it harder to dodge his other attacks. Even with this one, you can just run like hell, and hide somewhere until it wears off. And that's only in the extreme circumstance that you can't just deal with the cold in-battle until it stops.

Yes, Diablo is hard, but like I said, he's one of the easiest of the bosses to survive, once you get his attack patterns down, and you know when to run where to minimize your damage.

Though, I had a bit of trouble with him just yesterday. It was a blaze/meteor sorceress. :) I couldn't tell where his firestorm was, because most of the screen was covered in flames. I still pulled it off without a death.

Well, sounds like I'll be ok, but I think I will level to 30 for venom and my shadow master. Luckily, my lightning resis is ok now. Question : His red lightning, how much is fire damage, and how much is lightning damage?

Yeah, they really made meph harder, likely because people were running him. He used to be a pushover. To deal with his cold attack, you could always get half freeze duration, or the set belt (arctic binding I think it is) that has cannot be frozen, or another such item. I was fortunate enough to find this belt, and found it really helped in Travincal in act 3. The only bad thing about this belt is that you only get 3 rows of potions, not 4, but no biggie, you can always go to town and refill.

Yeah, once I get used to the animations of his attacks and how to avoid them, I should be ok. Where do you hide in the chaos sanctuary without getting cornered? Oh, and how do you find his drops to be since 1.10, better than before? Do you get many sets/uniques?