I might as well shove in some information and tips on Uber Duriel. Take it or leave it ...

Uber Duriel (Demon)

• Level: 110
• Hit Points: 650 000-660 000 (base value; monster life is scaled by (X+1)/2 when X players are in the game)
• Melee Attack #1: Damage (Melee Attack #1): 468-494
• Attack Rating: 7185
• Damage (Melee Attack #2): 149-214
• Attack Rating: 9798
• Defense: 2520
• to Block: 50%
• Damage Resist: 50 %
• Magic Resist: 75 %
• Elemental Resist: 75/75/75
• Poison Resist: 75
• Drain Effectiveness: 100 %
• Chill Effectiveness: 20 %

Drain and Chill Effectiveness are the amounts of your leech and chill (cold length) that apply (100 % is full, 0 is none).

Uber Duriel regenerates hit points at twice the normal rate.
To give you an idea, the standard monster regen rate is 1.2 % HP/s, with higher values for bosses.

The above information was taken from the DiabloWiki.

It is due to his massive amount of HP (the regen is a % of HP) that some mêlée characters have trouble finishing him off.

Counters

• Open Wounds (i.e. negative regeneration): Dracul's (25 %), Gore Rider (10 %), Duress (33 %) ...
• High damage output: Grief ('EthTirLoMalRal'), Astreon's Iron Ward (Caduceus), Stormlash (Scourge) ...

Last Wish works well to bring down the HP of Uber bosses, but after that, it is degraded to one lousy finishing weapon.
And LW lacks speed which may prove annoying against Uber Duriel in particular ...

Uber Duriel possesses his usual Holy Freeze Aura, (H): slvl 8 (46 % slow).

Google TitanSeal's Attack Speed Calculator and use it. Do not forget the HF aura !

This post was edited by Faelwen on Feb 3 2009 07:17am

Just got my smiters gear finished and got him leveled a bit, what level should I start trying to kill ubers? He is level 78 right now.

Gear wise:
65 Kira's w/ 15ias Jewel (I realize now that I have too much IAS and some is wasted so I will be replacing this with an um)
20 Mara's
Grief PB
CoH
Upped HoZ w/ P Diamond
Tgods
Dracs
Dwarf Star
Carrion Wind
2x Upped Goblin Toe

Level 6 Life Tap Wand
Pally Spirit

No anni/torch/20 life scs

My only worry is that I only have 25%cb... will that be enough?

Great guide anyway, helped me alot!

Help is much appreciated!

This post was edited by sgc_spartan on Feb 4 2009 05:21pm

I started doing ubers once I was done uber lvling around level 80.

25% seems a bit low, but try it a couple of time, if it's not enough you'll probably have to use another weapon than grief.

Think I could get away with using a Heaven's Light and then swapping to Grief once they are low?

Just stick with Grief PB, equip Guillaume's with 15 % IAS Jewel and Highlord's. With either Gore Rider or Goblin Toe, you reach 50 % or 60 % CB.

Run Salvation while smiting Mephisto. You are still at max Smite speed with the above equipment, no matter the WIAS from Grief PB.

Once he is down, run Fanaticism vs. the rest.

This approach is safer.

And you better put on at least one Raven Frost instead of that Carrion Wind.

This post was edited by Faelwen on Feb 4 2009 07:06pm

This could be an option too.

Yea I figured if I removed my Kira's I'd be needing a Raven for sure.

I'll keep those suggestions in mind, thanks.

I tried my first set of keys tonight - ended up getting a portal to Izual.

I didn't realize you had to fight regular mobs to get to them lol and let me tell you IM was quite the unpleasant surprise... I died 3 times on the way to him but killing Izzy was a piece of cake. I defanitely need to get a cta for this guy lol...

But all's well, my first mini uber is dead!

Well got 2 more key sets and opened the portals, I ended up with a 2nd Izual and a Duriel... Izzy was easier the 2nd time and Duriel was retarded easy.

Traded my 2nd brain for the horn and transmuted them...

Boy was mephi a bitch, diablo and baal were cake but mephi killed me like 5 times.

Got em killed though and my first self found torch: 20/16 druid ;o)

Too bad it wasn't Pally lol.

Just use 3 keysets (3 x 3 keys) in the same game and that problem will not occur.

Decent Druid torch.

This post was edited by Faelwen on Feb 6 2009 09:44am

Use salvation against meph if you have any resistance problems. Otherwise, a cta or a boer is always nice to have

This post was edited by TheUndyingGod on Feb 6 2009 10:01am