Is my gear ok for hell mf?

[UberB]

I have a level 81 blizzard sorc.

Skills:
20 blizz
20 ice blast
20 cold mastery
1 tele, TK, static field, warmth
rest into ice bolt

Gear:
Rare Circlet with +2 to cold skills, among other mods
Rare orb with +1 to sorc skills, among other mods
Vipermagi, +22 res
Visceratuant
Rare demonhide gloves with res
Tal's belt
2 x 21% Nagel's (can swap these with Dwarf Star and Manald Heal)
Rare boots with 23% Mf.

Resists in Hell:
Fire 16
Cold -52
Lightning -23
Poison 6

Merc
Act2 Might

Insight in Halberd
Shako (NOT harlequin's crest)
Haemosu's Adamant

Merc has 45 to all res.

I can do hell andy but there's a chance of my merc dying and I probably will need to TP out. I can do NM Baal no problem unless throne is really really ugly or dolls + lag.

I know my gear sucks so whom should I MF to maintain the best balance between safety and good drops?

I tried doing a few Hell Meph runs, all fail.

[CoolDarkDragon]

What server do you play on?

[UberB]

Heh...my internet is really unbelievably slow. I played on Asia but I was lagging so badly (it's aaaaall the way in Korea, so far away from China...>_<) so I'm playing on some Chinese server. I think I will switch back if I ever get better internet. Why?

[CoolDarkDragon]

If you were on my server, I have some extra equips layin around :D

[sangfagel]

Well... your gear is bad but it´s not a problem. You can easy buy much better equipement for some p-gems or - may be - a middle rune.

The really problem in Hell is your build. You have put 20 natural skillpoints in Cold Mastery - it is a waste imo. At the same time you have only one element at your disposal. It limits your effective actions to just fiew areas, and makes your life both hard and... boring. Well, you can still kill the Meph 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000 times using moat trick. In this case you need just some stuff for teleporting:

Wizardspike

Lidless Wall (if u need fcr) or Moser's Blessed Circle (if u need res/block). or Spirit (if u have enough str)

Than u need some cheap mf stuff - why not Occulus? It´s so cheap and easy to get!

... just watch vampires - they are cold immune :azn:

[DH Amazon]

Heh...my internet is really unbelievably slow. I played on Asia but I was lagging so badly (it's aaaaall the way in Korea, so far away from China...>_<) so I'm playing on some Chinese server. I think I will switch back if I ever get better internet. Why?

That merc is way too weak in hell. There are two good TC85 areas (treasure class 85=area where every item can drop) in Hell without cold immunes.

Ancient tunnel (hatch in lost city act2), need to tele there, so that might be problem with laggy connection.

Other is river area (not chaos part), Take river wp at act4 and clear area. There is one cold immune monster but its random. So if its there try new game.

If you run thoses two areas then change act3 cold merc, he survive and freezes those monsters for you, so its easy to kill.

You cant kill cold immune monsters with this setup, but bosses and those two areas are easy. Just avoid river part if there is that one cold immune.
Both areas are possible to run even full game, but try first at 1-2 player games.

Change back to act2 merc when you find good items for him.

[sangfagel]

Other is river area (not chaos part), Take river wp at act4 and clear area. There is one cold immune monster but its random. So if its there try new game.


It´s not really true. All flesh spowners here are cold immune. There are only two lvl 85 areas without cold immunes: Ancient Tunnels in act 2 (mentioned above) and Mausoleum in act 1.

If you run thoses two areas then change act3 cold merc, he survive and freezes those monsters for you, so its easy to kill.

Taking cold A2 merc is a nonsens for a character with only one point in warmth, desperate need of mana regeneration from Insight and cold attacks of her own. Teleporting and avoiding any physical confrontation is the only way to go.

[AnimeCraze]

It´s not really true. All flesh spowners here are cold immune. There are only two lvl 85 areas without cold immunes: Ancient Tunnels in act 2 (mentioned above) and Mausoleum in act 1.I think he means 1 cold immune type (which is as you mentioned, flesh spawners).

[UberB]

I've heard of the Meph moat trick, but I always run into those nasty council members which are cold immune. I rely on my merc for insight so I can't get him killed. Should I stick to ancient tunnels then?

[illestkhmai]

I've heard of the Meph moat trick, but I always run into those nasty council members which are cold immune. I rely on my merc for insight so I can't get him killed. Should I stick to ancient tunnels then?

Just teleport past them, they aren't usually cold immune, only one is the main one.