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since Super Strong. Your minions will die faster than you can say the word "DIE", so you can count them out of the battle. Now, with Duriel's Holy Freeze Aura freezing you and slowing you down, he can quickly catch up with you easily with his six legged sprint that can chase you down quickly.

CORPSE EXPLOSION, your most useful spell, can't be used because, well, there aren't any corpses to explode! For once, you'll be hoping for the Boss to have minions to help you out.

Now, how to beat him. The instant you enter the area, open up a Town Portal. You'll need it for a quick escape back to town, and believe you me, you're gonna need it! A few swipes with his claw can kill you! So, it's good to run back into Town the instant you start to get beaten up to regroup and replenish your minion supply.

He has a Holy Freeze Aura, so having items to help you with COLD will be good right now. But, it won't be useful 'coz he'll just get close to you and you'll get frozen again! So, never mind getting those equipments to help you against the COLD.

Duriel, although he runs very fast, is still very easy to avoid. Just run parallel (ie. across) to where he's running. In other words, when he's charging at you, run to the left or right. He won't be able to stop quickly and you can get a few blows in.

But, wait a minute! By this time, you're bound to have
BONE SPEAR at this point in the game! So, run left and right to avoid his attack. Then, fire BONE SPEARS at
Duriel. When your Mana level is low, replenish with a Mana potion, run around a while so your Mana builds up or return to town and get healed by Fara.

There is another way, but dangerous. I did this against him a bit before I switched to the above strategy. This method works good, but not as well as the BONE SPEAR way.
Simply cast IRON MAIDEN on Duriel and have your minions get killed by him. Have BONE ARMOR cast on you and let him get a few strikes in before running away and activating your
BONE ARMOR (It'll probably be blown away with one swing of
Duriel's Claw Swipe). If you're too beat up, use the Town
Portal to get back to Lut Gholein, heal, exit the town and create a full compliment of minions and return and repeat the process. This method is dangerous because Duriel can get a good swipe in and, all of a sudden, you will be scrambling for the Town Portal.

I recommend pelting Duriel with the AMPLIFY DAMAGE and
BONE SPEARS, rather than the IRON MAIDEN method.

Good luck! Did I mention that he's tough?

[FROM Werebear:

Fighting Duriel isn't as hard as what you think. I find him easier though a bit more dangerous than Mephisto. Why?
Let's see..

BLOOD GOELMS and IRON MAIDEN works to very good effect.
IRON MAIDEN returns whatever damage back by a BIGGER percentage and the damage done is by whoever it strikes.
When you consider a BLOOD GOLEM steals 33% of damage done by itself...and it means even by IRON MAIDEN. Let's see,
Duriel got a BIG BAD attack as you said in your FAQ. So if you boost your IRON MAIDEN enough, the damage return will be much more BIGGER. :> Like what you said, Mephisto deals lotsa elemental attacks and yeah, they don't hit back with
IRON MAIDEN, thus useless.

And I remembered killing Duriel with BLOOD GOLEMS and
BONE SPEAR in like 15 seconds. Though the COLD damage will kill your golem if your mastery is too low...


-Werebear

PS : Oh yah, you can try gambling for Tarnhelm early on so when you go for Duriel, you have easily a higher skill lvl on BLOOD GOLEM(More blood stealing and damage), IRON
MAIDEN (More damage returned) and BONE SPEAR. ]

[FROM DragonSlayer2500:

Hello, nice faq. I would like to say that the necro has a very cheap trick against Duriel, which makes him easy.

Just have a GOLEM spell, and as many SEKELETAL MAGES as you can. What you do is simple... Duriel always goes for the GOLEM as long as he is the closest. So keep making
CLAY GOLEMS as they die while you stay out of reach and the SKELETAL MAGES shoot him down! This is EXTREMELY safe but EXTREMELY Mana consuming though. ]


-DragonSlayer2500

[FROM: Ja Mes Kor

Firstly, I fought Duriel, Izual, Mephisto and some other bosses in ACT 2 & later using the BLOOD GOLEM. Firstly, I would have to invest a few more points in GOLEM MASTERY.
BLOOD GOLEM with IRON MAIDEN on the above bosses allow you to attack the boss while he is busy entertaining himself with your GOLEM and you do get the blood back from your cute BLOOD GOLEM. I find it useful and so far but I have not met Duriel in Nightmare yet...In normal, this is feasible as one of my friend who did it, agreed with my tactics so far. ]


-Ja Mes Kor

[FROM: Jason Lane:

Regarding Duriel, unless you wear the sash from the
Death's set (which prevents ALL freezing), no COLD item in the game will do a single thing about his Holy Freeze aura.
They won't let you move one inch faster, and it won't end until he dies anyway.  You also fail to note that Duriel gets a free attack while the game loads him into existance.
While this is a negligible problem for a Necromancer (since the minions will happily eat the damage), it's a huge one for members of any other class. ]


-Jason Lane

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Act III Bosses:
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1) BOSS   : Mephisto

ABILITIES : Death Swipe
Charged Bolt
Lightning
Ice Ball
Poison Explosion

STRATEGY  :    Oddly enough, Duriel, a Lesser Evil, is a whole lot tougher than Mephisto, in my opinion, anyway. Sure,
Mephisto may have a lot of abilities compared to Duriel, but, he is still easier!

First thing you got to do is to make sure that all the other mosters and Uniques are taken care of. In other words, they should be dead. Now, it's just going to be you and Mephisto in a one-on-one match... Nah! You've got minions! Use them!

The best way is to face Mephisto head on! Mephisto will only use Charged Bolt, Lightning and Ice Ball when you are at a distance from him. Being that these are his more damaging attacks, you can have him not use these spells by simply getting close to him!

Now, the only spells Mephisto will use are Poison
Explosion and his physical attack, the Death Swipe. But, he will have to contend with you, a GOLEM, a bunch of SKELETON
WARRIORS and SKELETAL MAGES. So, odds are he'll be kinda busy striking all of you and distributing his time on his attacks.

So, cast either AMPLIFY DAMAGE or IRON MAIDEN on
Mephisto. Either you and your minions kill him quickly, or
Mephisto kills himself!

But, he isn't a cakewalk. He CAN still kill you with his powerful strikes. If you need to get away, go behind a wall so that Mephisto cannot reach you. Use potions to heal you or return to town and restock on health and repair your equipment. Return to Mephisto and repeat. But, you won't have to do this that often when you compare the battle to the one you had with Duriel.

[FROM DragonSlayer2500:

Mephisto is really easy for a necro. Just stay away from him, and everytime he shoots something, sidestep it and shoot a couple of BONE SPEARS at him. Make sure you have
Mana and Stamina potions on your belt when you do this.

You can do the same for Diablo. ]


-DragonSlayer2500

[FROM: Ja Mes Kor

Firstly, I fought Duriel, Izual, Mephisto and some other bosses in ACT 2 & later using the BLOOD GOLEM. Firstly, I would have to invest a few more points in GOLEM MASTERY.
BLOOD GOLEM with IRON MAIDEN on the above bosses allow you to attack the boss while he is busy entertaining himself with your GOLEM and you do get the blood back from your cute BLOOD GOLEM. ]


-Ja Mes Kor

[FROM: Jason Lane

Regarding Mephisto.  On higher difficulty levels, the
High Council members stationed down there with him are far, far, far more dangerous than Mephisto can dream of being. ]


-Jason Lane


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Act IV Bosses:
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1) BOSS   : Izual

ABILITIES : Freeze Slash
Frost Nova

STRATEGY  :    Now, I actually found this fallen angel harder than
Mephisto! What's up with that, huh? He may be twisted to match his soul, but I thought that Izual looked really good! Really cool looking!

Izual is tough enough alone because of his freezing attacks that will slow you and your minions down quickly.
This, when combined with an army of Doom Casters and other baddies, will slow down you and your minions enough for
Izual and the rest of the monsters to surround you. So, one of your goals in facing this Boss is to avoid this.

Having suitable resistances to Cold attacks is optional but recommended for this battle. But, it's more important to clear out an area free from the normal monsters, preferribly close to the stairs that lead back to the Outer
Steppes or a corner of the area. This is where you should battle Izual. Once you've got Izual in this area, you've got two choices to go to beat him.

The first way is to go toe-to-toe with him, attacking him face-to-face and have your minions join in. Cast
AMPLIFY DAMAGE or IRON MAIDEN on Izual to help out on the damage delivering. This is very dangerous but the quickest way to do so. Just heal up and cast BONE ARMOR when doing this method.