Recommended skills for uber-slayer?

[Psyk]

Recommended skills for uber-slayer?

Hi all,

I'm working on a kicker that I'll be using solely to take on the ubers. I'm currently level 62, and have the following skills:

Martial Arts:
-Dragon Talon: 20
-1 in Dragon Claw, Tail, and Flight

Shadow Disciplines:
-Venom: 20
-Fade: 5
-Burst of Speed: 5
-1 in everything else

Traps:
-1 in everything except Wake of Inferno and Blade Shield

My question is, what next? Assuming that I take on the ubers at level 80 or so, I can max one more skill (I haven't done any of the Hell skill quests yet). Can anyone give me a recommendation of what they've found most helpful in uber-Tristram? Shadow Master? Mind Blast? Or something else?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[mmmpld]

Max fade unless you will be using Last Wish.

I build my ubers-only kicksins something like:
20 dtalon
20 venom
1-20 shadow master
1 or 20 fade (1 with Last Wish due to ctc)
1 BoS
1 dflight
1 mb
1 CoS
any left overs in blade shield for looks/duration.

I actually have 2 points in fade/mb in the hopes SM will use them more.

 

[Psyk]

Thanks, mmmpld.

Are there any other thoughts about this? Does anyone invest in MB for a uber-focused kicker, or is fade/SM the way to go?

 

[stephan]

If you want to do ubers pretty much the only thing that really matters is getting DTalon. The rest is just gravy. You could get 20 in fade for the %DR, but you could also just make a general PvM build.

 

[themarquis]

I agree with stephan about DTalon.

I went with a pretty high SM and Fade. My SM can now stay alive through Uber Tristram which provides some distraction to make my life a bit easer. Fade is great for the DR it provides. I use Beast, so BoS isn't necessary for me to get to any breakpoints.

Last Uber run I did, I didn't even drink a single pot. Generally I only need to drink 2-3 (other than the mana pots thanks to Baal's stupid mana steal).

 

[deadbeater]

I agree about the fade. I definitely had to use Fade to off uber Mephisto after stubbornly trying to kill him with BOS and failing.