What am I doing wrong

I have been playing a summon necro for a while now wearing full trangs set. The set worked really well. Lately, all this talk about UT got me excited, and I have been slowly trying to get him ready to maybe do the ubers one day, but I am completely new with this except for what I read in these forums.

So yesterday I was doing some MF, boom, the screen shook, diablo walks the earth. That was the first time ever in all my years of playing diablo. I got so excited, forgot to even pre-buff with BO (just got CTA yesterday, haven't even assigned hot keys yet). It took a while, my merc died twice during the process, and had to come out and re-build my army once, but finally took him down. So here are some of my questions:

1. Uber Tristrom, how does that compare with diablo clone? Much harder I would think since I will deal all three at once.

2. Should I be using life tap instead of decrepify to keep my merc alive? He is wearing good gear, kiras (66 resist all), eth duress, and bonehew socketed with two amns. Have been trying to get him eth obedience CA.

3. Can I wear my torch when go to UT? I had to mule away my anni before I could pick another one up.

Thanks for your advice.|||Not having done UT myself (also preparing, wanted to do it last weekend, lost my keys sadly) I think that dclone is quite a bit easier than the UT thingies. A nice idea is prebuffing your merc with the treachery runeword. Did you take urdars to dclone? The only thing that dies there are my mages, and they're quite squishy indeed.

You can wear your torch, but you can't pick up a second one. Ymmv, but I'm gonna carry mine and then get in my 2nd char to pick up the new torch.|||Quote:








Not having done UT myself (also preparing, wanted to do it last weekend, lost my keys sadly) I think that dclone is quite a bit easier than the UT thingies. A nice idea is prebuffing your merc with the treachery runeword. Did you take urdars to dclone? The only thing that dies there are my mages, and they're quite squishy indeed.

You can wear your torch, but you can't pick up a second one. Ymmv, but I'm gonna carry mine and then get in my 2nd char to pick up the new torch.




I will be wearing mine too then. Could use all the help that I can get. No, I did not bring any Uders. I have found that revives got lost quite easily. If I walk just a litter faster, they are gone before I even realized it.

Treachery? I will check that out.

Thanks.|||Yes, revives without teleport are a problem. But get teleport, a Naj's Puzzler on switch will suffice, and is cheap to get. If all else fails, I sell a spellsteel, it's even cheaper. Urdars are awesome for those things (they have CB). Also, you don't need to walk, once you have the urdars, portal, then use the waypoint, then only some meters into the ut porta, and there you are.|||Ubers themselves are slightly harder than DClone (especially Meph...), but it's essentially the same type of fight. Note that you should also be taking them one by one, not all 3 at once either :P

There are a few posts related to UT as a summoner you can search for, which mainly illustrate how to use Revives with CB + Tele, but IMO it's quite the engagement regardless. I've only ever done it with a Zmiter, and a Jabberzon (which failed in the end--but I'm going back for more lol)...|||Ok, that is encouraging. The fight was hard, but also very exciting, a nice diversion from the endless mf runs. I think that I'm addicted now. I'm always worried that if I go in UT the wrong way, I may accidentally engage more than one of them at once.|||Uber meph is harder, UT diablo is harder, and uber baal is maybe a little easier.

Good thread with decent advice for UT summoner. I'm partial to my posts but that's just me:

http://diablo.incgamers.com/forums/s...d.php?t=730947|||That is some good information indeed. Should I socket the Kira's with um for all resists or an ort for more lightening resist? And between decrepify and life tap, which one is better for keeping the merc alive?

Thanks.|||I never socket an Um into any type of headgear. You can get jewels with +15% resist all (which is what you'd get from an Um anyway), and if you are lucky, you may even have one with a second affix.|||If your merc still needs resists against uber meph after obedience and kira then you should really keep leveling.

Decrepify is the only curse you should use against Ubers. For the minions I prefer terror and dim vision. Life tap may seem like a good idea but you're better off stocking some fat purples and sticking with decrep.