Hmm I can try... will need to change my build a bit if I want to avoid TOC.

LOL @ underlined.

Impale doesn't spam damage as fast as cluster bombs. The limiting factor for me are the shadow clones. A lot of time is saved if you can prevent diablo from spawning more shadow clones. I've seen other videos where no clones are spawned after the first. I only managed to do it once, using stampede to stun diablo then spam damage. Need a lot of luck to pull it off with my gear.

Here's a new video using preparation-punishment instead of vault.

I'm trying all sorts of builds at the moment.

If I'm killing ubers I have smoke screen on my skill bar. It's more reliable to avoid attacks with SS and I can stand still and shoot. I will also have marked for death to help the team.

I'm looking at echoing spike trap to see if I can make a tanky build out of it. In MP6 I can facetank some of the trash monsters and elites. Bola shot with expanded radius has a really big radius and that helps.

I compiled this just for you

This is right. You need to kill the ubers by 8++ minutes or they'll give you a hard time. I found out the hard way yesterday

I 've been using bola (acid strike rune) since middle of 1.04. At the time I bought a budget DML with 11% ias and a small bola shot boost

Acid strike was pretty decent since it let you aim sloppily, but other runes are better now. I switched to volatile for key farming and imminent doom for ubers.

For LS I understand it increases proportionally to your total damage on screen. However, if you rely on shadow power for LS the delayed explosions can make timing SP tricky.

Your LS will also be delayed, a drawback which can be turned into a benefit. If I see trouble coming up like a arcane popping or if I'm not recovering enough HP, I'll smoke screen and get healed as I escape.

IMO survival comes primarily from understanding the boss mechanics, and then build+gear. Good survival gear is a buffer in case you make mistakes.

I'm very sure it procs LS (which is procced by any dmg on screen), and probably LOH too (at a reduced coefficient?).

I'll investigate later and make a video out of it.

Mythbusted

How quickly did you kill them? The bosses enrage at 8++ minutes, so your damage output determines whether you are helpful in a MP8 coop game.

Monsters in a 4-player MP8 game have (2.70 x 17.55 / 4.57) HP = 10.3x more HP than MP4 solo.

Changes to my coop uber build:

• Steady Aim - free 20% dps
• Archery - free 50% CD
• Perfectionist - free 33% EHP, handy to have when you're not careful. Cheaper to cast disc skills, which in my case is my entire 1-4 skill bar.
• Bola Shot: Imminent Doom Thunder Ball - it has less damage than imminent doom, but the stun interrupts ubers when they cast, which ends up being better for everyone.
• Spike Trap: Echoing Blast - it is a big hatred spender that has a really good hatred-per-damage ratio; 30 hatred for 825% weapon damage.
• Smoke Screen: Lingering Fog - avoid Maghda's bees, Kulle's rocks, deaggro off lashers etc.
• Shadow Power: Gloom - for life steal, dealing with reflect damage, facetanking trash.
• Marked For Death: Mortal Enemy - 10% damage bonus for team and regen hatred faster.
• Rain Of Vengeance: Beastly Bombs Caltrops: Bait The Trap - on paper beastly bombs does a lot of damage, but I have a feeling that most bombs miss. I also need to walk to the boss and back, which interrupts my stun balls. The extra 10% CC from the caltrops on the other hand gives me a huge dps boost as long as I stand still, which is most of the time (with SS and stun bola).
• Belt - depending on the situation, either a rare belt with lots of vit/AR/regen, or witching hour for dps.

The answer is Shadow Power - Gloom. It provides 15% LS and 35% damage reduction for 5 seconds. After damage reduction from his resists, armor, and gloom, there will be net life steal gain. In addition to that he has guardian sentries and numbing traps providing additional damage reduction.

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Added on October 22, 2012, 1:12 pmMP7 in a team.

During the siegebreaker fight, the barb yelled "I'm stuck". Wondering what happened, I walked towards him for a closer look. He was in siegebreaker's grip, and my stun bolas kept resetting the animation so siegebreaker couldn't let him down

Monster damage is getting nerfed

Here's my current build for solo MP7 key runs. Facetanking it like a boss because they don't hit as hard anymore

130k dps, 500-600 resists,, 4k armor, 40k hp, 1400 life regen, a few % reduced dmg from elites/melee. No LS/LOH.

Passives: Numbing traps, Perfectionist, Archery

Primary/secondary: Bola - volatile explosives, Spiked traps - echoing blast,

Others: SS - displacement, SP - gloom, M4D - grim reaper, Caltrops - bait the trap.

Yup

ABout 10++ minutes

Yeah probably, as you can't get 62.5% cc on those gear even with perfect rolls. Helm 6%, rings 6+6%, ammy 10%, nats bonus 7%, gloves 10%, bracers 6%, pants 1%, quiver 10% = 62%.

Yeah I'm a legacy nat user. Bait synergizes nicely in my build. They're cheap to cast and last a long time provided nothing steps over them (which is usually the case in uber matches). No casting animation too, so just lay one down any time. For key runs I use numbing traps passive, which is activated by bait caltrops. I have practically 100% bait uptime in uber, but for elites much less, depending how busy i am with the four disc spenders in my skill bar.

Ha ha, let's see how we fare on our journey in trying other builds. I just bought a SOJ to replace my nat's mark as an experiment. +5% poison dmg, 10 disc, 26% bonus vs elites, 7% bonus bola dmg. I didn't lose much dps against normal monsters (which demonstrates how pathetic my mark is), but I have a big gain against elites.


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