Diablo III - Official Discussion Thread - Who will beat Inferno first?

[lestatdark]

Mummelmann said:

lestatdark said:

sethnintendo said:
I'm moving along decently with my newly created Necro. The only problem with summoner necros is when you get in tight places. Your army becomes pretty much worthless. Makes me almost want to go to bone spear spell or whatever it is called. I suppose I'll stick with summoner for now but I did see that you can finally reset your skills. They didn't have that option for awhile. Must have been added in one of the last few patches.

Just wait until you get to the fight with Diablo, you'll then see just how bad it can get with a Necro  

He instantly wipes the floor with my skellies and golem, even though they went through all of his seal guardians and previous bosses with no issues at all. Why? Because of his frigging red lightning wave attack >_>. Had to do a painfully long strategy of goading him with a golem while my Merc took potshots at him.

And yes, the Reset skills option was added on the latest patch, 1.13

I beat Diablo last night on "players 8" difficulty. My frost mage was wiped out by the first magic/elemental attack. This is the only consistent attack in all of Diablo II that I could never manage to not get severly hurt by, Diablo's other attacks are pitiful, his circle of fire, flame river and melee attacks are a joke compared to that damn magic beam.

I basically just rushed him and hacked away, his melee was barely enough to overcome my paltry 4% life steal but then I had to run away every time he used his magic attack, it basically ate 95% of my HP in a couple of seconds, rendering me vulnerable to his otherwise poor melee and flames. Took me about 8-10 minutes to beat him (including runs into town to buy potions), this appears to be a Blizzard thing, the make enemies with relatively low damage but with truckloads of HP! Izual is the perfect example, he doesn't have enough damage to injure me at all but it took three minutes and 20 durability on my weapon to kill him...

Izual went down rather quickly to me, mostly because of Amplify Damage and 6 skeletons doing almost 90 damage each. But Diablo did take me 8 - 10 minutes too, because the bow I had on my Merc was rather shitty in the damage department (thankfully he dropped a Rare Cedar bow with 2 sockets, so now my Merc does 100 - 120 damage ).

At least Baal doesn't have a magic beam thingy that can almost instant kill anyone, though his Minions of Destruction are going to be a pain for my summo necro.