Advice with Uber Meph

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In article <DMoJe.108$7K5.38958@news20.bellglobal.com>,
"Silverthorne" <dontspamme@nospam.com> wrote:

> Has anyone solo'd Uber Meph and won?! I think a Smitadin was able to take
> him out as reported a few days ago...but anyone else have similar luck?
>
> Both my son and I play and we couldn't scratch him.
>
> My javazon took out Uber Diablo and Uber Baal with little difficulty...but
> Uber Meph slaughtered us both. His conviction aura is deadly. We tried
> different combinations of chars but none were successful and after 2 hours
> we just gave up.
>
> What char class (or 2 classes combined) can take out this bugger? We (my
> son and I) are planning on building a couple of "Uber Killers" when the
> ladder resets...but we're stuck on how to handle Meph.
>
> Smitadin + barb (for BO/Shout)?
> Javazon + Pally (for Salvation)? (this didn't work well when we tried it!)
> Barb + Necro (bonewalls everywhere to keep minions off barb)?
>
> Sorcs appear to be useless as do Hammerdins.
>
> Any advice?


In the first ladder season, I had a martial arts assassin that could
solo the Diablo clone easily, as early as clvl 70. Charge up Tiger
Strike & Cobra Strike three each and then release..,,,she could just get
those seven attacks off before dying....(occassionally would have to
forgo one or two charges in order to do the release move to fill the
life ball). At least its something you don't sound like you've tried
yet.

Good luck!

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> Has anyone solo'd Uber Meph and won?! I think a Smitadin was able to take
> him out as reported a few days ago...but anyone else have similar luck?

Hi All,

I'm another long time lurker - first time poster (I think).

I've done the new Tristram 3 times now on SC non-ladder on USEast.

The first time I used a group game with up to 6 people at any given time.

Destroyed. All of us, countless times. Literally scores if not hundreds of
times each. I tried melee pallys, ww barbs, hammerdins. The others used
necros, sorcs, concentrate and berserk barbs, javas and bow zons and more
hammerdins ... whatever people had in their arsenal that could stand
elemental attacks.

Finally after a few hours people started drifting away. Ane after 7 hours in
total for me, myself (using a zealer), another pally and a fb sorc finally
won.

It took forever but I learned quite a bit.

The next time was just over an hour with a barb there for high BO - but he
couldn't survive melee, so eventually he left and I took the 3 out solo.
Just 7 deaths this time.

And today, I spawned them solo ..... 8 minutes to victory. And only 3 full
rejuvs. I don't really believe it myself ........ if I had more life I would
have avoided the one death, but with only 1400 life (without BO) I couldn't
avoid the one hit kill.

Details :

- the Zealer is lev90
- the first 2 battles I used Tmight for armour, the last one I gave up
900def and used CoH
- gear used all 3 times; CoA helm, ebotd zerker, exile, gore riders, tgod
belt (this zealer was made to take out souls), slippers ammy, dual leech
ring, bk ring, drac's gloves, +36 res all in charms, an anni, 1 combat gc,
one off gc, other charms for FHR, AR, Life, Poison, Cold etc.
- the last 2 battles I had my pally hellfire torch, and besides the stat
bonuses, the firestorm mod came in darn useful against the physical immunes
(didn't have to switch off zeal)

What I learned :

- obviously high leech is a must for melee characters
- way above max res to deal with Meph's aura
- you may die a lot, so drop your gold in town if you're playing in a
password game or you can trust the others there (I went through 5 million in
gold in pots and repairs first time around)
- most people say save Meph for last, I believe he/she/it should be taken
out first. Meph raises minions so fast and from such a distance, well, it's
a pain besides being potentially deadly for you.
- PREVENT MONSTER HEAL is a MUST. Nothing like leaving for pots or having to
rejoin game for your corpse only to find the ubers at full strength.
- I had minimal DR for a melee character (23%?) and just the CB on the Gore
Riders, so if you can manage more and still have great res and PMH it should
be all the easier.
- whenever possible, clear out those damn minions, they can clog the portal
and with Meph's conviction aura are quite deadly.

So yes, I definitely think a HC guy could do this. And let me just say a
belated thank you for all the helpful information in the past.

-Robert
'Zealophile'