First Draft: Guide To Best Results From Uber Trist - Topic

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Oct 27 2009 06:42pm

Guide to obtaining amazing results from 2 spot box ubers.

I have used this technique for 20+ games successfully, no drops or screw ups.

You should be able to do 1-90 for a person with a 10% exp anni within 1 hour.

About 75ish minutes for a person with a lower anni.
(of course this depends on how fast you clean up, how good your waller is etc)

Before i begin i would like to express how important it is to make sure you do your pricing 1 of 2 ways, these will produce your best results.

First and my recommended way it only do ubers by the hour
dont take a person in for 1-85 and then another person in for an hour and someone else in for 88-90, just do the fucking hour! mixing is horrible, it makes the people who paid for an hour not get their full experience if they have 3 people leave in the time, not to mention its bad for you as the organizer to have to minimize D2 in order to get more leechers.

Second way you COULD do it is do it BY the COMMON level
For example offer 1-85 or 1-90 for a set price and ONLY take in people who need those ranges; obviously you can change this up a bit, offer 1-85 and let someone at x level in until the 1-85s are done and tell them they have to be happy with whatever levels they get
its just really important to try to keep everyone in the game, happy until the time is up, then get a new batch of leechers.

Now I will explain to you the teleport path, the spin locations and the buff location;

You can do this with any hammerdin set up you choose, but, 2 spot ubers is a lot more taxing then rock ubers and it is very hard for a random hammerdin to survive

So, I will also offer some build set-ups to help your ubers run more smoothly.

The BEST way to make sure that your tank paladin is target is to make him join game LAST, and party in town, but whatever works best for you is what you should do.

*Take note, some people think who the target is doesnt matter as long as it is one of the paladins, this is pretty wrong

it does in fact matter, most of the units will be targeting the target paladin, they dont just spawn around him, they also attack him first.

THE MOST IMPORTANT THING ABOUT THESE UBERS IT TO KEEP TALKING TO A MINIMUM.

Make sure the leechers understand to not talk at all, and to cast NO spells; also if they have a merc they should kill him before you start the ubers.

Paladins should wait in the start location until everyone else is in their spot.

The next pictures shows good spots to spin and buff.

Personally i have never had any problems with these special locations, if your leechers are behaving, you shouldnt either.

The Buff location allows for faster teleporting between the spin areas.

It also puts you on the same screen as the leechers, so you can make sure nothing funny is going on.

Now for the last bit, the recommended teleportation path,

these special locations were developed by me in order to cut out as much teleport time as you can.

In reality the time saved between teleporting to the tree and teleporting all the way back up to the corner may only be like 3-6 seconds.

But 4x walls at 24 seconds each is 96 seconds, so around 105 seconds for all the walls plus clean up;

so in a perfect world with no teleport time at all you can get about 34 sets in an hour.

The extra 3-6ish seconds, 34 times is an extra 1-2 sets which is A LOT of experience.

A level 20 BO lasts like 225 seconds, so math shows you only really need to bo every other set.

(even if you have a 17-20ish BO, if your paladin is built correctly you should be able to survive the last little bit of the set without BO)

As you can see on the teleport path i have made you go from spot 1 directly to spot 2, then to go to buff zone

It is best to do it this way because the buff zone is a bit farther away from spot 2 then it is spot 1

it cuts down on lag, which is really needed for this technique,

also you save another 3-6 seconds only stopping to BO once, which again is A LOT of experience.

The Builds
For the support paladin the best set up is 125 fcr / 48 fhr
Your support paladin will be getting hit LESS then the target / tank paladin, and so you need less fhr
if you wish you can go for 86 but it it really not needed
a basic / cheap support paladin set up would look as follows

Helm: Shako (socket pretty optional)
Ammy: Maras
Weapons: Hoto or wiz spike / 6 bo or highest bo cta you can get on switch
Armor: MP or Dusk enigma
Shield: Spirit ST (35 fcr) / bo spirit on switch
Gloves: Trangs pr Mage fists
Rings: Soj + Soj(wiz) or Soj + FCR(hoto)
Belt: Spider
Boots: Water walks

Inventory
Best anni / torch you can get with the money you want to spend
9x Offensive gcs
10x18-20 life scs

Stash
Last wish PB (optional)

with a stashed lw pb a single point in fanatacism will turn your hammerdin into a paladin who can easily set up your ubers

Skill set up
20 B. Hammer
20 Concentration
20 Vigor
20 Blessed Aim
1 Fanatacism(optional)
rest in holy shield

For your 'target' or 'tank' paladin you will want 125 fcr / 86 fhr
You will be the main focus of most of the monsters attacks and more fhr will let you recover faster to cast more
The more monsters you kill, the more life enigma gives you
ALSO the faster the monsters die the faster more pop up
I have seen a few people with 75/86 builds, using Exile for the defiance aura
personally i dislike this idea because the aura just adds a state for the game to keep track of and lags it more then it needs to lag
but you can use it if you wish

My tank paladin set up looked like this

Helm: Shako
Ammy: Maras OR Metal Grid (i used the latter)
Weapon: Wiz spike (7fhr/other stat jewel) / hoto or 4 skill Astreons
(if you want to get really fancy you can look for a 2/3HS or 3 combat / 3 HS scepter for switch HS)
Armor: AP enigma
Shield: Spirit ST (35fcr) / Herald of Zakarum on switch
Gloves: Trangs or Mage Fists
Rings: 2xSojs
Belt: Spider
Boots: Sand Treks

Inventory
Again... best anni / torch you can get with the money you want to spend
9x combat gcs
10x18-20 life scs / 9x 18-20 life scs + 1x 5fhr sc

For shako socket, if you dont have a fhr/ dex or fhr / whatever jewel to stick in your wiz spike, sheal it
if you can scrounge up 2xfhr / dex jewels then put 1 in your shako and 1 in wiz spike
if you only have 1 then put a pruby in your shako and get a 5fhr sc

your specialized tank paladin does not need BO so your switch it designed to buff your holy shield

Skill set up
20 Bhammer
20 Vigor
20 Blessed aim
20 Holy shield
20 Defiance
1 meditation (allows you unlimited mana without needing a merc, this will be the aura you use on your tank paladin)

Your paladin will depend on another for conc so you have a bunch of skills free to use
PERSONALLY i thought it would be good to add them to prayer, you can get up to like 50-60 life every 2 seconds from prayer
this may not seem nessecary, but it adds good survivability, plus it adds a crap load of heal to your holy bolt, allowing you to heal your support paladin fast after a wave if he needs it.

Waller:
Of course the best waller to get would be a bot, but we arent allowed to talk about that on jsp so i will say this

your waller doesnt really need anything, no insight for unlimited mana(it just makes lag)

my waller when i did it was a level 27 naked necro stat'd pure mana

this gave him enough mana with his natural regen to wall for an unlimited time, remember you only really need 17 mana every 24 seconds.

do sets of 4 walls, the necro can say '2 / 3 / lw' if you wish or just 'lw'

up to you, but thats all he needs to say