I don’t know if mephisto’s harder-to-dodge lightning bolts or diablo’s more predictable firestorms hurt more. I never done an uber so I have no idea. Maybe even resist cold would be good for meph’s frost nova and random ice ball.
Resist lightning definitely usable against meph, but resist cold wont do much. Just try so stack resistances.
Btw mephisto cold skull orb is half Physical damage.
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should i use 2 wisps?
I am not sure, it might be over kill, i would use raven frost and dwarf, thundergods visor and stack resistances from charms and shield.
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nah. use one raven for cbf.
i used to put on resist lightning when fighting meph, then swap back to fana but now i just stack 10 lite resist charms and keep fana up.
in general, resist lightning and then resist cold if you pvp are the best auras. its easy to increase max fire resist with boots.
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Get yourself a life tap wand (if you don’t have Dracs or Exile) and that will solve your Diablo problem.
Your problem with Meph is that he can one-shot you unless you overstack or remove his Conviction Aura.
One way is to put as much as you can into Resist Lightning.
The other way to do it is to have at least 21 points in Conviction which will nullify his own.
A few days ago I ran a successful Uber trip with my 1 point smiter, with black runeword, Guardian angel, raven dwarf and Tgod. I used a life tap wand as I didn’t have other life tap sources. For Meph I just turned on salvation aura.
I had to use several purple potions mainly because of life tap issue. Black wasn’t fast enough to finish them (the last bit of life) and I had to switch to life tap wand while fighting, which again led to longer time. If I had equipped with Dracul or Exile it would be much easier. Black works fine.
Back to your question, if you wear guardian angle (with Um so that it is easier to switch armor and maintain resistances), wear the 3 absorption gears and put ONE point in salvation, you don’t have to worry about his conviction aura.
I know this has been argued many times, but I don’t want to waste multiple points in Max resistances as I’m only running PvM. For PvM, It makes no sense to increase max resistance by 1% for every two precious skill points. If I am worried about gloams, I’ll just use Guardian angle, or Enigma / Vipermagi + TGod.