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@CrazyMage-215274

I did the Ubers with my kicksin in PTR 2.4 . Uberbaal seems to be bugged, I hardly hit him with max speed and 16k attack rating. I think he is really hard with a kicksin, easy with a smiter and almost impossible with other chars. I don’t know whether it is a bug. It would be nice if we did Uber runs together for confirmation. If the bug is real, you can’t do ubers with ama. She’ll be stuck at Baal.

Not sure what you encountered there, but I ran UBERs with my Bowa several times to sell torches for the initial portion of D2r release. If you didn’t see the video already, here it is: D2r Elite Bowa End-Game Setup - 8 Player & UBER Demo.mp4 - Twitch She wasn’t even baller strong yet when I was doing this runs. UBER kills begin about midway through the video, Baal is the last one. No special setup is even used. It’s just base lv 1 Jab, T-God swap, Dwarf swap, Dracul swap, and Treach & Demonlimb prebuffs. Baal actually goes down easier than Duriel tbh. Duriel is the hardest one for Bowa due to the freeze aura.

As far as WF transcending Faith GMB pvm clear speeds, it just ends up not panning out that way. We’ve gone over this in this thread already: Faith Merc sucks on Physical Bowazon - Amazon - Diablo 2 Resurrected Forums (blizzard.com) Check the calculations for yourself. Not only does Faith GMB end up being more raw damage than WF not even counting IAS, but Faith GMB also just fires faster and doesn’t miss hits. GMB Faith surprisingly ends up being significantly more DPS output than any WF setup. Also with the idea of Amp damage, realistically Atma’s is simply not needed in the strong end-game. With a good Faith GMB setup, monsters get mowed down so quickly in 8 player even, that the 5% Amp proc doesn’t really have time to proc, and when the Zon approaches that level of raw kill speed without Amp, the 30%frw on Cat’s Eye becomes more important than anything for clear times to be able to actually move through areas quickly. Also keep in mind that although WF raw damage is amplified a bit more by LOH, the Faith Bow also has +% damage to Undead.

However, there is one method in which you could make a WF better than a Faith GMB, but it would be ultra ballsy to do and an expensive blunder if things went wrong. If you were to use Metalgrid and make an Iron Golem out of Beast + a2 merc with Might/Conc, you could make a WF setup that definitely easily transcended Faith GMB damage output. But I would not suggest doing this unless you had a 2nd joining games with you and prebuffing that IG before each run with straight high level Barb BO, otherwise he’s gonna run into the wrong mob and die eventually.

@Juni-1635

I’m using shadow bow faith 15/2
My inven is stacked with max dmg charm but still when I do the math max dmg jewel will yield the ed jewel…so if someone like me stacked on max dmg but still a max dmg jewel will outdo an ed dmg jewel, feels like most ppl will be better off on max jewel.

Btw Juni, you were right about the +15max jewel if it was applied to a DEX based build and when the merc auras are on. Scroll back up and start reading at post #137. Remember, this is in conjunction with pvm, not pvp. In pvp, the 45/120 is still going to be necessary on a Vita build.