I'm farming machines atm, got 2, and I'm wondering how to know if my character is ready for ubers. Is there any comparison to know if you're strong enough for them?
http://d3up.com/b/1033709 Here's my character. I farm mp2 but it's a bit dangerous. Other than that I know I have to chance my life/sec sustain for LoH, but I'm having a hard time at it.
Posted Sep 28, 2013, 6:20 PM UTC
IMO it's too early for you.
Going with a team is obv the way to go, but in any case you should be able to handle it also almost solo mode. I don't like to be a leecher, I want to be an actual support to the team, so the first time I preferred to wait few more upgrades and then I did Ubers.
I'm telling this because is useless to do ubers MP0-2, you would like to do at least MP3+, otherwise you're wasting alot of effort collecting keys/organs for a too little reward.
Keep farming and improve your gears, collect keys meantime so you're preparing few ubers run for when you reach a good level.
My last advice: to build the same char you have in SC you just need a tenth of what you paid in HC. I built for 30m SC my 300m HC WD and tested my stats and my build in SC. As soon as I saw good results I tryed the Ubers with a good team. You share Infernal Machines and with all the keys you and your comrades collected while farming you're going to recover the time lost improving and get your Hellfire safely.
Your damage reduction looks good. That said I would not do ubers right now. Your dps is way too low to do them on a meaningful MP level (6+) which means it may wind up being a waste of machines for you.
Concentrate on getting your dps up (and eventually grabbing some life steal). I recommend you check out the HC monk wiki for gearing tips.
If you simply want a Hellfire ring ASAP once you have 3 machines I would find some people to help you and use the lobby method on MP7 or MP8. This kind of carry typically doesn't cost any money if you provide the machines.
Just wondering, what is the Lobby method?
When running someone who is not geared for the MP level you can do ubers this way:
It's the safest way to do ubers. You maintain your NV stacks while outside the game.
1-3 geared people lower elites and then kill them in a safe environment nearby so the person being carried can get NV stacks. This step can also be done normally if the person being carried can do regular farming but not ubers at that MP level.
I didnt even know you could simply join an uber encounter mid-fight. Huh. Thanks for the info!
Yeah, the trick is you can't enter the boss encounter until after the uber bosses are dead. If your'e fast though you can flag in before the key drop comes up and then you get the drop despite not having fought the battle. Typically the person doing this leaves the game to make the fight easier and then re-enters shortly before the drop.
I've seen this work and even used it in softcore when someone died and accidentally resurrected. Just had them spam my flag before Uber Siegebreaker died and then were back in and got the key drop.
Thank you all for the info :D
Yeah for Ubers I wouldn't waste your machines doing less than mp5. And if u can farm mp5 then u can prolly do Ubers at that same mp.
Best practice is to go in the first time with people way more geared than you. You provide machines, they kill the ubers, everyone wins. Once you get a feel for if you contributed at all, then you have an idea of what the encounters are like, and if you could have done it without help from the others.
Not a shame at all, but been a leecher removes all the enjoyment of the challenge.
It's obviusly only my opinion, but I would suggest to improve a bit his gears, find a good team same level as him, and then collect keys and share IM. When they got better they can run multiple times Ubers and get the HF anyway.
You feel more accomplished. You know, if you miss the journey then what you have left is only the destination...WHAT NAO!?
Obv just IMO...