So I have the lightning spear build and it’s clearing about pit 95 just fine. Damage or overall survival are not the problem, it could go probably 15-20 levels higher but the thing is the completely random insta-kills that pop up out of nowhere like those explosions, soul burner projectiles, desecrator axe hits etc destroy any possibility of finishing the bosses.
Same goes for infernal. EZ 6, EZ 7 in terms of damage and survival but the insta kill just bluntly ends it.
So I wanna ask for advice, how do you guys deal with it? What’s the strategy?
- Be more detail oriented, play with your eyes locked on those possible mechanics?
- Stay the HELL (pun intended) away from Desecrators and the like?
- Keep flame shield up as soon as possible - ignore the mana part?
- Just get better gear?
Defense: I have 9.9k armor and 70% all resists. Max life is 15k.
Offense: 46 crit chance, %1700 crit dmg.
For me what’s important is lots of crowd control:
- Immobilize
- Stun
- Slow
- Freeze
What usually gets me is when the mob dies and as soon as I pickup stuff, there’s on the ground. It’s much harder to see if you are running Fire and burning the whole ground.
You don’t need any armor above the cap, 9230 or something close anything over that is wasted. Switch the armor for life, Dodge, or LH to stun/freeze.
What aspects are you running on your helm, pants, and chest?
Are you running any defensive glyphs such as reinforced?
Personally I love move speed. It has bailed me out many times.
In my LP/FO build I use 1 mythic unique (Andariel) in combination with the Temerity pants and Fists of Fate.
This setup gives around 80% attack speed without potions, 110% lucky hit and a permanent barrier so you can not die easy at all.
Fists of fate do wonder for your survival since it applies random CC. Give it a try if you can give up on one offensive/deffensive aspect
With the helm and pants I descibed it works perfectly.
Even the random crowd control works great because the total lucky hit is over 100%.
That with the 500 health on hit and the high attack speed (80%) from Andariel helm works perfectly with the Temerity pants that gives a very solid barrier if you overheal.
Did not even come close to dying so far but I have not tried to push Pit yet above 120.
So that is my main defense and apart from armor and resistance cap that should be okay, everything else is pure offensive in my build.
If you have 3 aspects and or affixes on 3 pieces of gear that have DR and you are getting the paragon nodes that have DR, you should be able to avoid the one-shots. I am pit 123 and am semi immune.
Note that im not pushing pit because there isnt enough reward to make pit worthwhile. Only hoard is worth it now for materials.