Act 2 - Duriel

[gbullit]

What is the best tactic for a Sorceress, lightning and cold, to deal with Duriel? My first Sorceress got killed inside that tome. So I started a new one :grin:

[FrostBurn]

Static Field.

[MageChick]

yep, unless your CM is high, stay away from cold attacks too. If I remember right (and I usually don't it seems like) he's 95% resistant to cold attacks (in hell). Try to build up your merc to tank him and keep him chilled for a while. Your merc doesn't even have to damage him, just so he stays alive long enough for you to kill him.

[sirpoopsalot]

Yep, Static Field is your friend.

For a can't fail method, load your belt with 2 rows of heal potions, 1 row of thawing potions and 1 row of normal rejuv's. Feed these to the merc to keep him alive - all the while casting Static. Duriel's health will drop in no time. If you're in normal difficulty, cast static until Duriel's life is about 1/10th, then switch to lightning and finish him/her/it off.

In NM and Hell difficulty Static Field is capped, so you'll have to switch to Lightning earlier.


... uhhh, assuming you have an act2 merc.

[gbullit]

Thanks for all the info, my mercenary is Act 2 lvl 24 and I got Static Shield lvl 2 and lots of Greater Healing Potions and also lots of rejuvenation potions, was thinking of using 3 x 3 rejuvenation potions and 3 Greater Healing potions, hope I stay alive this time :smiley:
By the way, those thawing potions, what do they do?

[Eilo Rytyj]

they cure the 'chilled' status (when you're hit by a cold attack and are blue colour), and grant you +50% cold resist and +10% max cold resist for a short period of time.

you will still get slowed by Duriel's Holy Freeze aura regardless, but the casting rate of your spells wont be slowed by it, only your walking speed and your attack speed with weapons.

just keep out of his way, teleport away if necessary, and use static field until he has almost no life left, then blast away with your other spells.

[melianor]

If you ask me, there is one very easy way to deal with Duriel in Act2/NOrmal if you are Cold/Lightning:

Purchase a 2 socket "GREY"!!! staff, with +1 Firewall. Get TIR+RAL and make a Leaf staff. You can get those Runes from a few countess runs. Then you make the "Leaf" Runeword and now you will have a +4 Firewall, with +3 Fire Mastery. Together with Merc, Static Field and Firewall, Duriel will be dead in no time.

Otherwise, see above.

[gbullit]

Hi melianor, with help from the Leaf staff and FW also Static Field, it wasn't that much of a problem. :)

[melianor]

Hi melianor, with help from the Leaf staff and FW also Static Field, it wasn't that much of a problem. :)

great to read :)