Advice for fishy v's Dclone?

so I had a terrible time with Dclone tonight, and want to make the experience a bit more enjoyable should he walk the earth again.

any advice for me?

Urdar revives, skill shrine for pre-buff, as many poison mage's as can be maintained ( I managed 4, I can only keep 5 on switch) prevent monster heal and good leech on merc (didn't have these), decrep and clay golem anything else I'm missing?

my level31 RS+31RSM was not enough to solo him, even with a few urdar's and mages, my entire army went poof in minutes, and I couldnt raise enough revives/mages and keep them long enough to get back to Dclone, I didn't have teleport (I'll fix that soon) I had to get a sorc into help (she couldnt solo either).

sorc rounded up revives and corpses for me, summoned army then straight back to town, then sorc goes in portal first, opens TP right ontop of clone, I go in and army is nicely stacked, decrep and static, it was over in under a minute. Next time I would like to solo him, without resorting to leveling a smiter/hammerdin|||Does your merc have any crushing blow?

Not sure if it helps, but when I teleport my army right on top of him I have no issues.|||I would advise to find a teleport ammy/Enigma/Najs puzzler just for this occasion.

Guillames Face (35% CB) socket with 15 IAS jewel

Eth Obedience Thresher (40 CB)

Treachery (45 IAS) or Fortitude

This Set up will give a 6 frame attack (Fort) or 5 Frame(Treachery) with 75% Crushing blow which should rip apart Diablo Clone by himself. If you wield a Beast double axe you can with make the merc hit at 4 Frames which would absolutely thrash him.|||Failing that the tp trick is viable if you can take a hit or two, run right up to him and open it then drop back through.

Obv merc with crushing blow is a VERY useful addition, speeds things up rather immensely..

If you have the prevent monster heal then there's no need for the poison mages...not many at least, I'd prefer a good mix, poison to stop regen, cold to slow him, even a little and fire/lightning for the (relatively) decent damage.

Merc is by far the most important one really, if you have crushing blow then it's a cinch. I've only got dclone once (thank you cheaters...everytime I get kicked due to lag spikes when they make him appear )

CB is the key for them.|||Do you guys have trouble keeping your merc alive? Or do you spend lots of rejuves on him?

How about skellies? I notice that skellies can't seem to take more than a few hits from dclone. And my RS,SM is 32 or 33. Mages die in 1 hit..

@WNxZerker: We kicked his butt didn't we? |||My merc rapes DC without breaking a sweat even without life leech.... I could switch to CoH but he doesn't really get hit with my army in the way.|||yeah my gear needs some upgrades.

I'm now sitting on lvl34 RS and 34 RSM, that's 36 with a shrine, still want at least + 2 all more before I try again, I can get that with a better wand or a +skills armor for pre-buff

I'm looking at merc gear suggested and I think an Obedience is within my reach, but he would still need life leech, and I guess his G angel armor is a bit of overkill on the resistances :P I could try a Treachery on him, but not 100% convinced. merc still gets owned by OK's when amp'd, and it's going to be awhile till I have an engima and can tele him out of trouble. I'm not too worried by kill speed with Dclone, I am worried about having an entire setup stashed away just for him, and I need my army to survive just long enough for the damage they are able to do to get the job done.


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@WNxZerker: We kicked his butt didn't we?




we sure did, if I could manage that kind of kill solo, I'd be happy to think about ubers :P|||Eth Obedience Thresher Hel + Ko + Thul + Eth + Fal

Eth Duress Archon Sheal Um Thul

Tals mask

This is a cheap and effective set up and your merc shouldn't have problems anywhere in hell|||When I teleport my merc and army on top of him, I survive and kill him.

My merc didn't die when I killed him. He was using a cheap insight, gface and some throwaway armor.|||Round 2 with Dclone this morning. went much more smoothly.

had sorc come in again, we have the tag team worked out well.

sold the unid anni, and a few other items.

now I have enigma, Arm of King Leoric, merc has non eth thresher obedience, tals helm and a boneweave treachery. baal goes down in a flash compared to the time it used to take, and I'm looking forward to round 3 with Dclone, I'm now summoning lvl38raise skeleton and lvl438 mastery skellies, I'll have about10-15 udars, and stack them on Dclone's head. if I can get a skill shrine things should get nasty for diablo.