Earlier today I attempted to solo the uber three with my ww barb. Didn't turn out too well. Took quite a while, but I was finally able to do it with the help of a lifetap necromancer. My barb was just a mediocre BvC beast/ebotdz barb. Granted, I did not have the best of equipment or proper planning, but these are just my observations.
Anyway, here's my thoughts on the uber three:
Mephisto
Mephisto hits hard and furious, but he's actually the weakest of the three. I attempted him with a barb and did not have to use life tap at all. Just open the portal next to malah and lure mephisto over to it. Constantly whirlwind around him. Eventually his minions should be dying off and as long as you're engaged in combat with mephisto he doesn't spawn more. Just whirl him a few times and pop back into town for a quick heal if he's doing too much damage to you.
Baal
Baal is particularly nasty. He doesn't really have the damage to kill you, but he is nigh impossible to kill alone. His minions are all physical immune, so you can't leech off of them. He's not afraid to use his cold property knockback wedge on you, pushing you to the far edges of the screen while he regenerates. To make matters worse, he spams the mana burn attack on you, negating your ability to stay in whirlwind mode. The physical immune minions consist of act three vampire type monsters and ghosts. The vampires aren't a problem, but the ghosts tend to stack on top of baal, making you hit them more often then you actually hit baal when you're whirling. What I ended up doing is I brought in my enchantress to enchant me (for extra AR and the ability to kill minions while whirling). With life tap on, I spammed ww like there was no tomorrow. Used up a lot of mana potions to counteract the mana burn. Killed off all the minions and just whirlwinded around baal. With enchant I was able to kill each minion as it popped out, and life tap kept me alive
Diablo
Diablo himself is not too bad. He seems to be the same old Diablo clone, so his fire damage hurts if your resists are not up to par. However his minions come in the dozen and its very difficult to separate diablo from them. He also spawns them quite frequently. Diablo regenerates the fastest of the three, so unless you're extremely good about staying on top of diablo, it will be difficult to consitantly deal damage to him. You NEED to be constantly hitting him to stop him from regenerating, and whirlwinding was out of the option for me. Because the Pit Lords were so fat I hit them more than Diablo, giving him time to regenerate. What I ended up doing was just stand there and conc him to death. You can't do this alone though, you need an extra person to be casting life tap for you.
Additional notes:
- Life tap charges are useless if you're a ww barb. Chances are your conc won't be fast enough for dracs to activate, and the lifetap from the wand doesn't last long enough.
- The real Baal likes to teleport on top of you if you try to run away. If you ever get confused about which Baal is the real one, just walk away a bit, but keep them both on your screen. The one who keeps teleporting on you is the real one.
- You can separate Baal from his copy by abusing his teleport AI. Provided that you yourself have teleport, just walk up to a building and teleport inside. The real Baal will teleport inside with you, leaving the copy stranded outside.
- Open wounds saved the day. Without this mod (and life tap) I could not have done it. Open wounds stopped their crazy regeneration rate, allowing me time to take quick trips back to town without having all my work undone.
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