I need help from the Pack!

[lopec]

I need help from the Pack!

Hi.

I've been following the ribcracker vs. übers guide loosely, and tried my fury wolf against the übers for the first time last night...

I've done the 'miniübers' quite some times w-o any real reason to worry, Izual just takes some time getting to, but when I opened the final portal into tristram everything went from good to .... :shocked:

I did a loop around the map to try to get someone out in the bottom of the screen first, diablo came, and died pretty fast.
After that I got baal out from the towncenter, and also he went down, after some trouble with his shadows ^^

Mephisto then quickly rushed out from the center and... killed me within a heartbeat!
I tried him for a few hours, collected full rejuvs, and tried fighting him with alot of skellies to leech from, aswell as him an noone else, but couldn't get him down to less then around 10-15% each time, before everything was to hard to handle, or I was out of potions, or he got from 90% life to dead in one hit..

So I'm wondering, what shall I do now?
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My build from top-down:
170% Jalal w/ [email protected]
Metalgrid 429ar/[email protected]
Upd Ribcracker w/shael
CoH in Balrogskin
Dracul's Crasp
Raven 15/187
String of ears
[some rare ring that has to go][email protected]/16life/111AR
Gore Riders

5x S/S skillers
3x [email protected]

and a bunch of LC/SC with +life/+ar mods.
and ofc a Torch(16/20)
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Fighting-ready I have the following stats:

FeralRageDmg: 2089-3163
FuryDmg: 3441-5190
AR: 16862
Defence: 4276
Life: 2958
Resistance: [email protected] (calculated to somewhere around 102/102/111/113)
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Skills:

20pt. WereWolf
20pt. Lycan
20pt. Fury
16pt. Feral Rage
18pt. HoW
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Stats:
Str: 155
Dex: 45
Vita: 280
En: 20
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Basically, that's it.

Anyone has any ideas or suggestions? Will rebuild this char when I have the time, to lower strength and peraps get higher life... I hope.

When I don't hunt organs or übers.. I use it as a PvM to get those Key of Destruction, and to hunt with my trapper friend.

 

[yetidiah]

get a treachery armor and stand in one of the fires by the river of flame waypoint until fade activates, this should help out your resistances. I think they are your main problem because mephs conviction takes away 125% of your resistances.

 

[KellKheraptis]

Is it Mephisto himself who's killing you or his umpteen million minions spamming spells and crap at you? I totally agree with the Treachery idea, and am curious as to whether you're going pure Feral Rage against him or Fury to take out the insects he likes to summon. If the former, I would say either precast LT from a wand or Fury the lot of them until LT triggers, then move in to Feral as soon as possible. Combined with the res buff from Treachery, I would imagine that would give you enough staying power from the leech to survive till the next LT from Drac's (ad infinitum, until the dirty bugger drops). Hope that isn't too garbled...I is a sick puppy at the moment and well medicated :tongue:

~Kell, *sniffle sniffle ACHOO*

 

[lopec]

Made a treachery right after starting this thread, havn't tried it out yet though.

Caught a quick glance @ my res when effected by mephi, think it read something like -20/-20/-20/50 or something. should help with treachery then for how long does fade last?

Both meph and the minions kills me, and I've tried both pure feral rage against him, and fury to leech from the summons aswell... LifeTap/LifeLeech won't work on meph himself though, right?

 

[NotIIGood]

Lifetap does work, Normal life leech doenst work though iirc.

 

[lopec]

K. then I will have a chance... last game I held open for 12 hours, trying different approaches... oh well

any other possible flaws in the build?

 

[Bjam]

Actually, you look to be ready other the resists problem (which Treachery should fix). Treachery also adds 15% DR which can't hurt. The fade lasts a very long time (4+ minutes), so as long as you tackle Mephy first there should be no issues. You could have put some strength points into vitality, but you still have all you'll need (no need to rebuild).

 

[lopec]

Treachery also adds 15% DR which can't hurt.

Will this stay after I switch?

I thought I would get mephi first, but instead he came last. any safe way of getting him out first?
I've read about going counter-clockwise until you hit the 'south' wall and then try to lure mephi out. didn't work :/

 

[Bjam]

Yes the DR% benefit stays after switching for as long as fade is active.

I have never had a problem isolating Mephy by going straight up to the top, then straight left, then half way down, then right slowly until he shows his ugly face.

 

[lopec]

ah. going in from the righ... will try that next time

thanks for the help, and I guess I will be coming back if I don't succeed next time either ^^

edit ooooo.... 777th post ^^

 

[inanefedaykin]

[some rare ring that has to go][email protected]/16life/111AR
That's actually pretty nice...