Hello,
Today Uber Diablo spawns in Chaos Senctuary ( double Diablo ohh yes) and I am farming it with my FoH Paladin.
I try to kill him with Holy Bolt, but no damage at all. Uber Diablo is also a Demon (it has a tag under his name “Demon” as well) like regular, but still no damage. I can kill him with my FoH, just because it has some lightning damage also, but that was a long fight.
I think Uber Diablo is just getting forget to set him as Demon, and with the 2.4 changes in place, FoH paladins can clearly tear him apart like the regular one.
Uber-Bosses have huge life regeneration. To counter this you either need to stop regen (like poison damage or bleeding) and / or apply considerable damage like Crushing Blow.
Watch this maybe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5iSXOUUMOA
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Thanks, I am aware of that, but the problem is not that ,can not do damage with holy bolt.
he’s set as a demon. foh does more damage cuz it can shotgun with the holy bolts. foh is just holy bolt x (nearby targets+1) + some lightning dmg. was he regening? you probably werent outdamaging his regen. he regens 8k hp/s
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FoH not always shotgun it, especially if it is the only monster near, because there is no holy bolts to spawn.
Regen can not be a problem because Holy bolt dmg : 5258-5962 vs FoH Dmg: light. dmg: 3876-3996 + Holy dmg: 3336-3376.
So yes technically FoH do more dmg, but in practice it is not, because bosses have lightning resist and there is no monster in the game who has “Holy” resist. It is not magica dmg, not elemental, nor physical it is a damage of its own, no resist and the immun is simply do not be a demon or undead.
The Holy bolt simply do not do damage at all for him, when the FoH does, but not much because it is just the lightning damage, I can do more damage when I was closer because of the Conviction aura which is logical because he get damage only from the lightning damage.
In theory the FoH is better for boss killing, but it is not, it has cooldown where the holy bolt not, with a high casting you just melt all the bosses (and also heal your mercenary if your position is good), I did this build after the 2.4 update and playing it often because it is a very fun build.
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“holy” damage is just magic damage that ignores magic resistance on undead. “holy” damage does not ignore magic resistance on demons. he has 50 magic resistance. i gave myself 30k holy bolt and hit dclone with it, he took a decent chunk of dmg. you just dont do enough magic dmg to outdamage his regen
edit: i set him to 99 magic resistance and could no longer kill him with 30k holy bolt (sliver and then regen), so holy bolt definitely doesnt ignore magic resistance on demons.
edit2: mroe math. assuming 125 fcr and 5.55k average holy bolt, you do 7.7k dps to dclone, he regens 8k a second. just smite him once with your cta and then use holy bolt
If the “holy” damage is magic damage, how can I kill Pleague Bearer in Act 2 - Lost City - Ancient tunnels? It is magic immun and can kill with just holy bolt easily.
So that is why I assume it is a different type of damage.
did you read what i said? “holy” dmg is magic damage that ignores immunity on undead monsters. plague bearer is an undead monster. diablo is not an undead monster.