Hello. I started up a single player empire recently and Im ready to get some torches. My sorc is 92 farming p8 terror zones and I have a buncha keys and gear farmed. I am trying to figure out what char to make for ubers out of paly, barb, druid.

I have the following bases for weapons.

Eth bases
13 ed highland blade
highland blade
6 ed silver edge axe

Non eth bases
5 os scourge
5 os ettin axe
6 os champion axe
3 os scourge
4 os phase
5 os phase
6 os phase

I was thinking about either a Frenzy barb with dual eth oath highlands or a fury druid with e death silver edge axe. I dont have a good 1 hander for a paly aside from crescent moon. I do have a 2/71/72 alma negra and clean non eth 28 res all sacred targe

I have acces to runes for 2 oath or death. I also have access to 4/4 cta, highlords, ravens, goblin toe, loh, gface, hustle, demon limb, eth ribcracker(no zod), shako, arachnids, war travs, every sunder

-- NO grief, dracs, gores, enigma, infinity, reapers, fort, exile, anni, string, tgods

Kinda leaning towards frenzy barb but i know druid with edeath is 20k fury.

I have NEVER farmed and gotten a torch before solo or otherwise itll be my first time

This post was edited by respeconize8 on Jul 30 2025 06:43am

Smiter
You can use that 3os scourge to make black
Treachery or smoke
Random 4os resist shield with 4pdia
Shop a life tap wand
Etc

Smiter is the easiest and best char for ubers. Also most budget friendly with the items described above.

Yeah but its better than a frenzy barb or wolf with eth elite weapons?

Everyone says smiter even tho i have good frenzy and wolf weps. I found an eth decap and also an eth balrog now too

Since you did not state "Organs" that means you still need to get them before doing Uber Tristram correct?

So that means you will be opening 3 portals in one game in Hell Act5 to ensure you collect the 3 specific organs.

This means you will have to use one character (unless you have other ways to keep game open if you need to switch to another character) so that the game does not drop on you.

Am I correct so far?

Yes

Hybrid Hammerdin / Smiter would be optimal, but the gear is specific.

Uber Durial has a ton of Immune Physical monsters around. (area is similar to Act2 last waypoint open desert)
Uber Lillith has a ton of Snakes and Archers around and Spearazons. (area is similar to Towers)
Uber Izual has a ton of (forgot really, think snakes dolls and souls) ... area is similar to Archeron Pit ... Act 5 where you see a gate with a red portal.

Uber Tristram has Baal (summon ghosts immune phys), Andarial (summons Skellies and has conviction aura) and Diablo (summons Berserker minion... basically Minotaur looking).

Been awhile since I played, and only play LoD, so there may have been changes in D2:r ... hope someone can rectify this. Hence Hammerdin / Smite build suggestion.

I heard i can zerk immunes down then stick on the boss as frenzy

This post was edited by respeconize8 on Jul 30 2025 08:19pm

That is correct, I am a Berserk barb fan, not too much Frenzy, however, when doing Ubers, you concentrate on the Uber Boss using Life Tap wand and deal with the immunes later. All melee characters doing Ubers will have a Life Tap wand.

Basics are to cast life tap on the Uber Boss and tele stomp him ignoring the others... as a Frenzy barb, you could also Howl the lesser monsters away.

Again a frenzy barb can do it, thus gear is needed, and I would not use Oath... but then you have to build around what you need:

For Ubers: Melee

Life Tap, IAS bp, life leech, frw, cbf, max or stacked res, open wounds would be good, crushing blow and tele... FRW would be good, and of course decent damage and a way to recast Life Tap while in combat.

Above is just my generalization of what is needed.

The low budget Black smiter works, CB is optimized as well.

So I am guessing you will need an Enigma of some kind, the gloves that has a % ctc Life Tap (also has Life Leech I believe), Highlords or Maras? Highlords would be optimum for the IAS ... Griefpb would be my choice based on easy to get IAS BP.

Not sure on Frenzy, but I am sure you can check it out, or someone more experienced can help you.

Now I have forgotten everything that I use on my Hammerdin Smite build, it only uses 1 base point Smite (I add to this when other skills are optimized).

On Switch for Smite:

Griefpb + Exile.

Enigma
Shako or Ral'd Andys... sounds strange right ... well Andy's for IAS / Life Leech and Strength, as for Shako, just for MF with Hammerdin.
War Trav boots, mf and some added damage.
Gloves with % ctc Life Tap
2x Raven frost
Maras
Spirit ST
Hotos or Spirit Sword for FCR & Res.

Inventory, basics and res to max or overcap.

Yeah, basic crap, but I use this on LoD SP8 with Plugy, all self found gear.