Back to bowazon run!
So we did our first attempt a while ago and after very slow organ gathering uber tristram had a surprise for us..
http://www.twitch.tv/peconomusman/c/4630219
What the hell did just happen here, peco enters the portal and suddenly every boss gets aggroed for some reason.. I'm not even talking about hundred skeletons that meph spawned, I've never seen something like this.
On my screen I saw like only 1/8 of the skeletons and I assumed that Meph was in the corner and later ran right through him..
Well my only explanation would be that the game bugged somehow.
Anyway, that was not the way I planned to approach this, so I will give it one more try.

I love this idea and it sure beats the im awesome cause my smiter can kill the ubers in under a minute videos that are all over youtube.

Why not try with a wind druid a few ideas for equipment.

Jalals or a nado pelt
crafted fcr amu
fcr ring
ravenfrost
aldurs boots
arach
trang gloves
viper (um'd)
lidless
wizardspike

Finally two weapons that you will definitely need- gavel of pain for amp dmg charges and moonfall for the lvl 13 meteor charges

This set up will lack damage reduction and fhr for sure but i think might be doable if you can find a dudu torch, anni, and a stash full of ele skillers but it surely will be a challenge especially Lilith

Hello, first of all, thank you for your response, I appreciate it
Sadly, I just can't even attempt to do a run, when I don't believe that it is possible to do it under the conditions I am 'forcing' myself to play..
I have to admit that I've never had an elemental druid and might be underestimating him, but I am sure I am not..
However, before coming up with this conclusion I've been thinking about the possibilities and even found two videos on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r68wdIWe3Ps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlmjzJieaSM
I think that the first player is not legit and doing it on a private server, or with hacked items, or what ever stuff. He even has a video of doing uber trist with singer barb.. Even IF it was legit, it still is 100% softcore and my goal is doing ubers with no deaths..
The second guy also did it in softcore and admitted dying a few times, he has a guide about it, so you might want to check it out.
Then again, filling inventory with skillers and all this stuff in a way defeats the purpose of my builds as well.

However, why won't you try it out your self and let me know how did it go? I would be super interested in it
Obviously you could use all the 'best' gear, the gear you did suggest in my opinion wouldn't be enough

Mavinuh - M'avina's Battle Hymn Guided Arrow/Strafe Bowazon



The set is terrible, I'm not going to lie. It's the worst set from all the class specific sets in my opinion.
And not only it is bad, but it also looks horribly. That being said, this has to be done anyway! Ohh, and did I mention that my actual physical damage is something like 400-700?

THE BUILD:

I maxed guided arrow as my main attack against ubers (since it always hits)
Maxed strafe for dealing with multiple monsters.
Maxed Valkyrie and Decoy for tanking/distraction.
1 point in all passives and the rest into penetrate.

THE GEAR:
Mavinas bow with ber rune - need crushing blow
Mavinas armor and diadem with um rune - need to survive Mephisto
Mavinas belt and gloves -f**ing useless
ravenfrost, 15all res/7dex ring, Atmas Scarab for Amplify damage and Metalgrid for resistances.
marrowalk boots for pro bone prison strats, goblin toes for crushing bow, goreriders for open wounds.
Switch: Terror charges wand for crowd control and Moser's shield.
Inventory: 1 passive skiller for the important level 27 valk, a lot of resistance and life charms

THE MERCENARY:
Amplisa - the Amplify damage and Open Wounds Rogue
I actually chose it before considering anything just for the cool 3 amazon party and possibly more challenge, but now I think this is probably the best option anyway:
She is wearing Upped Witchwild String bow to max out resistance and chance to cast amplify damage (2x shael)
Upped Crow Caw armor for open wounds (I love this armor)
Guillaume's face (switching to Face of Horror for the actual tristram for more crowd control and to make sure she hits the 'right' thing)

Final product - 1391 life, deceiving 579-1461 damage (physical is only 400-700), only 6k attack rating, 20-45% crushing blow (my only hope), reliance on the mercenary for Lilith's and Mephisto's regen stopping, HUGE repair costs for marrowalks which have only 13 charges as well.
Looks absolutely terrible right? So I needed a plan..

THE IDEA:
Duriel - Valkyrie tanks him while crushing blow slowly but surely does the job..
Izual - should be even easier - if 20point valk can do hell ancients (i did it) I'm pretty sure 40 point valk can tank izual for a while
Lilith - little more complicated, but still doable, bone prison will be used to trap her while merc does OW to stop the regen and I do the crushing blow
Mephisto - I had the least idea what to do about him, same bone prison stats, reliance on mercenary for OW or switching to goreriders myself, using the top side of tristram to abuse his AI somehow/make the skeletons stuck behind the walls was my idea
Baal - assuming mephisto is dead, there should be a lot of room for the battle and with the help of terror charges this might be doable
Diablo - so from my personal experience, Diablo stops summoning the pit lords after some time when the 'max' amount of them is reached, splitting those venom lords to the corners with the help of terror should make and easy 1v1 with Diablo.(LOL)
Sorry for very long posts

So I did the run and here are the results:

M'avina's Bowazon Uber Trist Run (solo)
http://www.twitch.tv/agguh/c/4678090 (part1)
http://www.twitch.tv/agguh/c/4678116 (part2)
http://www.twitch.tv/agguh/c/4678151 (part3)

Sorry that the video got split into 3 parts.. Had some terrible internet issues during the run.
Started from Lilith, keeping merc in a good position/alive was quite tough but worked out pretty well. Had a super close call against her, she hit me once - down to 148 hp, juved, second hit - down to 240 hp, crazy, and on my screen I wasn't even close to her.. Bone prison strats worked perfectly.
Second was Duriel, spawned in his usual spot, so supposed to be easy, but then 2-3k lag spikes began... Multiple close calls when decoy, valkyrie won't spawn because of lag, huge game freezes - can't believe that I didn't die to him with all the lag..
Izzy was Eazy.
And then the Tristram.. Mephisto would 1 shot bone prison, that was unexpected actually, this also gives me some doubts about some future run I had planned...
Getting him stuck behind the walls didn't work either, his skeletons were too much to deal with, so I pulled baal in a corner and decided to try diablo..
While my bone prison didn't work as expected - Diablos bone prison worked perfectly, just as I thought I cleaned the place up for the fight, he would trap me and start spawning pit lords right on top of me.. Multiple close calls, had to save and exit once, but I did it only when I had no potions what so ever and only 200hp left..
I left the baal untouched, because I didn't have enough free space to fight him.
I did fight for good 40 minutes and not only I didn't make any real progress, but I also had tristram full of their minions...
After clearing out Tristram with my barb I did count the number of pit lords - 31! Looks like my theory about max number of summons was an illusion. I'm not sure what makes them stop summoning minions though..
I am against save and exiting and I don't mind loosing this character, but I saved just so I could have a possibility to give one more try for her.

My final verdict:
With so much people excited about my bowazon run I might have left a lot of you disappointed, but in my opinion, soloing uber tristram with M'avina's bowazon is impossible.
Simply because minions are too hard to handle, and her low physical damage doesn't let to power through the summons as faith/windforce bowazons can do..
If you see any ways my run can be improved, any gear or strategy changes, please let me know and I might give it one more try! I don't think that I did very bad job handling the tristram though.
In theory I still think that the run is possible, however there's no 'perfect luck' in diablo, so that's why it is impossible in reality.
Anyway, I know only two people (including myself) who believed that this was possible, so this might have been expected for most of you.

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Liked the thread.

gg

A lot more challenges are coming soon!

Hey, it's time for some more Uber challenges!

My next character is Vendetuh - Griswold's Vengeace Paladin!



Not using smite of course, for a challenge, not using zeal even, which would be better in my opinion.
I haven't been able to find a single UT run of vengeance paladin, so it is going to be very interesting.
There are a few interesting points when it comes to vengeance build:
While I will be using conviction to counter Mephistos' conviction casting life tap will be very scary, since I will have to loose my conviction for a second which means I will have negative res.
Also vengeance has very low physical damage and slow attack speed, so leeching life even with life tap will be a problem.
High mana cost of vengeance is also something to consider, especially when fighting Baal.

Here's my build:
I am level 85, 20 points into vengeance, 20 points conviction, 20 points resist lightning and fire ( for synergy and max res), 1pt in useful skills like vigor, holy shield.
Enough str for gear, dex for max block, everything else into vitality.

My gear:
Full Griswold's set obviously
Weapon (shael ber ohm ber)
Armor (max dmg jewels with some random secondary mods)
Helm (ber ber)
Shield (um um -req jewel)
Crescent moon amulet - I've found a use for this terrible amulet, since vengeace costs so much mana, the mana leech is very useful
Dracul's grasp gloves - for ow and life tap
Verdungo's belt
Gore riders boots
Bk ring and Ravenfrost
Life tap wand and Mosers on switch, Demonlimb in stash.

Now here are some gear switches depending on situation:
Highlords amulet when fighting bosses
Wisp ring and Thundergods belt for Mephisto - this pushes my lit res up to 95!
Angelic's combo for Baal
Teleport amulet in inventory in case I get surrounded and rest of the inventory is life charms pretty much.

To make it even more fun - here's my mercenary:
Flux - act 3 cold mage, wearing super stylish gear!:
Azurewrath sword
Eth Shako
Eth upped vipermagi
Eth upped Lidless wall

Did my run, here is the video!

Griswold's Vengeance Paladin Uber Trist Run (solo):
http://www.twitch.tv/agguh/c/5508061

Managed to get a pretty decent run, I'm very happy about how it went.
During my practice run I had huge problems killing Baal, but this time it was pretty good.
As expected I've had some problems leeching life back, but that just cost me a couple of juvs.

Basically what I was scared of the most while doing this run was this (I'm hope Peco doesn't mind for linking his video): http://www.twitch.tv/peconomusman/c/4459678
So I thought, if I will use marrowalks to cast life tap, I won't cycle my conviction and thus I won't die like this, but I actually had no conviction at all for some time too!
How foolish of me, even after so much strategising I still made this brutal mistake, well I guess I got lucky that Meph didn't go as aggressive on me this time.
Anyway, ubers with terrible build for them, but a really good set - that was fun.