beat the UBERS, using full trangs!

[axdaddy]

This must be the proudest moment yet, i need to cool down.

The ubers were beaten, it took more than an hour, this was my gear:
Full Trangs
Summon ammy with resists
Boots with resist
Dual MF rings
Carin Shard
4 summon gcs


Nothing can beat the satisfaction of a triumphant underdog.

[Arkardo]

Hats of for you, dude! :thumbsup:

[sequoia]

haha, challenges like these always keep d2 fun

[Rawness]

Hehe... good going there :rolleyes:
Any specifics about how you did it?

[Zauzich]

How much of the game did you clear re-summoning?

I've never seen the ubers =/

[AnimeCraze]

How do you avoid luring all ubers out with full trangs? Teleportation ammy?

[axdaddy]

ok, i shall post how i did it. It definately wasnt easy, or pretty.

I was lvl 90 when i attempted this, with skill pts:
20 skellies
20 mages
20 mastery
20 corpse explosion
1 to clay golem, iron golem, summon resist and revive
1 to amp, terror, decrep and weaken
rest to golem mastery
(13 skellies, 13 mages, 14 revives)
(11 skellies, 11 mages, 9 revives with naj's switch)

With my gear (socketed trangs: armour/helm ptopaz, shield: pdiamond), i manage 1200+ life and max resists in hell. for teleport purposes i use naj's staff(60+ charges is massive and sometimes essential)
My might merc is very strong, with an eth obedience thresher, skin of the flayed(leech), and guillaumes face. he has max resist, 1800 life, dmg ouput 800-5000+ with might on.

Cleared and obtained eye horn and brain the old fashioned way, walking slowly with full army, cursing and corspe exploding.

I spawned a map with river of flame filled with urdars and durance filled with bundlebores(spelling?). Had 500k gold and some armours to sell (in case i die and run out of cash), ready for repairs and merc reviving. 12 full rejuvs.
All this proved insufficient.......

IDEAL game plan...:
Tele around seperating meph and isolating him on bottom left, diablo on bottom right and baal on top. Kill meph, diablo then baal, travelling back to get more urdars and replenish army after each kill.
Decrep and gumby stack for slow.
Terror whatever summons to make them go far far away...
Tele stack for urdars and merc to use crushing blow on ubers.
Mages will poison to prevent the high heal rate of ubers.
Urdars will also be the massive meat shields to protect merc and mages.
Merc with his high dmg output should finish the job.

First attempt, MEPH:
summoned whole army from cold plains and revived around 6 urdars on first attempt. He killed all my mages in 1 hit and took my merc. Managed to bring him down to 1/3 life but couldnt go below that due to his massive healing.

2nd attempt, MEPH: same story...

3rd, 4th 5th... attempt (starting to lose count), DIABLO:
at first i tried to isolate diablo without urdars (starting to run short of them), but merc dies easily from his large breath of red lightning, and mages die to ring of fire very easily.
I start to lose morale...

Next attempt, BAAL:
I succeeded in killing baal the first attempt using the above technique. He's relatively slow, doesnt seem to have high dmg spells and summons seems pretty weak.
Morale is high again.

Next many attempts, some for DIABLO:
Facing the same problems, Diablo is very fast and has pretty strong spells. It doesnt help he summons ALOT of pit lords. Pit lords are fast, strong and they dont seem to wanna go far far away when i terror them, mages die too easily to ring of fire.
Some for mephisto:
Mephisto is lightning enchanted, and that kills merc in one hit if ur merc is at when the charged bolts come out from. Same goes for mages. Same goes for u. I die twice.


Urdar supply diminishing, lack of gold, rejuvs finished.... I give up and start to call for help... i waited, clearing the map for gold, rejuvies and to mf... help didnt come...

Blessing in disguise, i tried again...

Successful Attempt, DIABLO:
I cornered diablo with a mix of urdars and revived pit lords (these were the remaining stray pit lords from last attempt). The pit lords proved good additional tanks against elemental dmg of diablo. Knowing the threat of pit lords, i spent most of my time "terroring" the pit lords, chasing them a short distance away, and terror them again.

Successful Attempt, MEPHISTO:
I tele-ed to a lucky angle, merc and mages didnt die. Same technique, focused on casting terror massively. He finally bit the dust, my army had around 20 members left... but there was the torch... the prize.

[Majaii]

Veeery nice, thats way tough to do, i gotta ask what kinda torch did you get?
Congrats!!

-Majaii