08-03-2005, 04:52 AM
The final battle with uber Baal, Diablo, and Mephisto is indeed hard. I did an attempt with some random pubbie BNet gamers earlier tonight, using a Summoning Necro. The battle takes place in Tristram.
I had to bail out of the attempt due to lack of sufficient funds with which to resurrect my Mercenary. Every time I died (which was a lot), I had to go back to Cold Plains and summon another army. My Summoner has no way of directly killing, so it was up to my Mercenary to create the first corpse. I eventually ran out of cash and the pubbie gamers didn't seem to want to help me. Oh well.
We were able to dispose of uber Baal and Diablo, but Mephisto was the one that rendered me useless and poor. He had Conviction and used Blizzard, Thunderstorm, and a super version of Diablo's Firestorm. My Skeletons stood up quite well to Baal and Diablo, but Mephisto tore them to shreds in a just a few seconds. After my skeletons were dead, my party of pubbie players soon followed.
Some notes from a Summoning Necromancer:
Dim Vision works very well on all of the spawning undead (which means everything except for the big three). I was able to completely shut down every enemy with the exception of the ubers. Too bad that my pubbie party didn't seem to notice that and kept casting area of effect skills that counteracted Dim Vision and drove me nuts :(
Corpse Explosion is useless. Yeah, a lot of corpses appear but they always went into mainatining my skeleton army. The CEs that did go off were ineffectual against the ubers, at best.
Clay Golem and Decrepify worked just as well as they would against any other Boss. The ubers slowed to a CRAWL when I was able to concentrate on this instead of the hundred other things going on.
I might be a little biased based on my single experience at taking on the ubers, but I really think that a Necro is the way to make this battle into something beatable. Yes, I died a lot of times, but not nearly as many times as my party members did (and I was running around with less than 800 life). They were lucky to last 30 seconds while I was able to run around with my trusty army for up to 5 minutes at a time. Dim Vision, yeah!
I think that the key is to take them one at a time and shutting down the spawns. I'm imagining my Necro parked safely in a corner somewhere while a bunch of nasty Hammerdins, Blizzard Sorceresses, Zealers, Fury Druids, and Smiters take their frustrations out on a single uber boss while I spam slvl 30 Dim Vision at the edges of the screen. A healthy Clay Golem and a tiny AoE Decrepify will turn the uber's attack into a slow slideshow. Lure each uber one at a time and rinse and repeat.
I had to bail out of the attempt due to lack of sufficient funds with which to resurrect my Mercenary. Every time I died (which was a lot), I had to go back to Cold Plains and summon another army. My Summoner has no way of directly killing, so it was up to my Mercenary to create the first corpse. I eventually ran out of cash and the pubbie gamers didn't seem to want to help me. Oh well.
We were able to dispose of uber Baal and Diablo, but Mephisto was the one that rendered me useless and poor. He had Conviction and used Blizzard, Thunderstorm, and a super version of Diablo's Firestorm. My Skeletons stood up quite well to Baal and Diablo, but Mephisto tore them to shreds in a just a few seconds. After my skeletons were dead, my party of pubbie players soon followed.
Some notes from a Summoning Necromancer:
Dim Vision works very well on all of the spawning undead (which means everything except for the big three). I was able to completely shut down every enemy with the exception of the ubers. Too bad that my pubbie party didn't seem to notice that and kept casting area of effect skills that counteracted Dim Vision and drove me nuts :(
Corpse Explosion is useless. Yeah, a lot of corpses appear but they always went into mainatining my skeleton army. The CEs that did go off were ineffectual against the ubers, at best.
Clay Golem and Decrepify worked just as well as they would against any other Boss. The ubers slowed to a CRAWL when I was able to concentrate on this instead of the hundred other things going on.
I might be a little biased based on my single experience at taking on the ubers, but I really think that a Necro is the way to make this battle into something beatable. Yes, I died a lot of times, but not nearly as many times as my party members did (and I was running around with less than 800 life). They were lucky to last 30 seconds while I was able to run around with my trusty army for up to 5 minutes at a time. Dim Vision, yeah!
I think that the key is to take them one at a time and shutting down the spawns. I'm imagining my Necro parked safely in a corner somewhere while a bunch of nasty Hammerdins, Blizzard Sorceresses, Zealers, Fury Druids, and Smiters take their frustrations out on a single uber boss while I spam slvl 30 Dim Vision at the edges of the screen. A healthy Clay Golem and a tiny AoE Decrepify will turn the uber's attack into a slow slideshow. Lure each uber one at a time and rinse and repeat.