Does this actually work? I’ve been finding my Heph in solo games but will it actually be stronger if farmed in p8?

Show us your stats and skills. Were you using act 2 might merc? He increases your damage a lot.

no act 2 merc, it would have just died in ubers. Heph had might + amp, and p8 Heph has higher might level than my a2 merc did anyways.

Here are my stats:
1200 hp
75 fcr bp
Dmg with p8 might heph was 11k-26k
max res (but not much stacked beyond that, so meph's convic crushed my resists). didn't have a tretchery to pre-buff with yet because Lem rune has not dropped for me in my single player game yet.

Skills are:
Max ES + synergies
Max Blood Oath
Enough points in demon mastery for 10 pnts there (will go to 20 in late game with better gear and higher lvl char)
1 into Levitation Mastery, 1 into Signal Lethargy, 1 into bind demon, 1 into each hex

Where I messed up:
- I should have had a life tap wand on swap. My issue was taking too much dmg and ran out of full juvs before meph died. I had him down to half his life when he died. If I had cast life tap i would have been fine. I don't have this wand yet, so will shop it.
- Precasting fade from tretchery i think is key, so i will have to keep farming for Lem rune to drop.
- I went in with a defiler, which was dumb. It died anyways. I should have consumed a goatman instead.

So once I find Lem and a life tap wand I will try again and make the change of consuming goatman instead of having a defiler when I enter portal. Let me know if any other suggestions.

Other option would be to level a pally and build a budget smiter. Still need life tap tho, and don't have dracs or marrowwalks or a wand yet.

This post was edited by birdman5 on Mar 13 2026 08:26am

I would bring an act2 merc with might, put as much as resistances as you can in him. When he dies just buy him again. Your main task of your demon is to cast amplify damage. And to do that, its far better fire/light/cold aura and cursed. But if you take the lifetap route, then the demon must NOT have cursed or he will remove the lifetap. You could bind a fanaticism one to increase your damage output a bit more.

good point on the life tap and amp canceling each other out

the more I think of it, the more I just want a budget uber smiter. Would be way easier so i can just life tap, ow, cb everything. was planning to level a pally next anyways so might just start doing that. had a HOZ drop for my warlock so it has been tempting me. need more socket quests and something that won't die in durance of hate from hitting dolls anyways (will level them as hammerdin, and respect to smiter once I am ready to run a bunch of ubers with him, likely once i find dracs gloves).

This post was edited by birdman5 on Mar 13 2026 08:45am

you could use life tap vs meph on warlock but if you have enough braincells to position yourself correctly you dont need it at all

you leech plenty from amp with random life/mana leech on gear vs diablo and baal

i guess i was not smart enough on the positioning. felt like meph always had the upper hand on me.

i thought leach didnt work on the ubers, so i took mine off. does it work?

There is no other char that can easily do Ubers as the lock in the sense that you only need to make 1 char and it can mf as well as Uber all with budget gear while doing the damage of a fully geared hdin. I don't understand some of you skill pts decisions. Max echoing, max synergies, max levitation, 1pt lethargy, 1pt 1st hex, 1pt in everything to get bind demon & 1pt blood oat.

Lure meph away, then jump meph with your demon for amp, spam echoing strike and time your full rejuvs, meph melts. Then go for Baal and Diablo, jump them, they both melt faster than meph. I did that with:

CA insight, spirit Mon, Lore, Smoke, **Treachery pre buff**, Trang gloves, some rand crafted boots, crafted caster belt, 15 all res crafted blood amu, 2x crafted, blood rings. And it was super duper easy



This post was edited by UkrainianProtein on Mar 13 2026 01:06pm

I took off my leech cause i thought it didnt work on ubers

I didnt have trechery, so lower resist than you

And I was dumb and had defiler instead of consuming goatman, so had lower dmg, run, and hp as well.

Those 3 things likely caused my fail. correct those and think i am good?

Treachery is like a must, consuming goatman will help but not a make or break situation