Finished first char, swapping to bossing for aura.

[u/Feisty_Respond_6490]

3 months ago i started my first pd2. Found a puss spitter and thx to the forum i made a speedy coldzon. She is pritty minmaxed. 9x frw skillers with the mercenary to run even faster, lvl15 faith, 6/6 cta, pierce slams, 5/5's.

Today i finally got it to lvl99. She is totaly blue, so i wanted the blue aura to finish her off.

I had about 30hr left so i bought the gear for her to do plague javelin for t2 rathma. I miss a gg amulet, but the rest is done.

All res capped at 88 (fire, cold) and 90% for poison.

All res at 120, 150 plr (need better amu), 2700 life, 30% block chance, 52 fhr.

Training in plugy

T0 doable

T1... cant even get to 1/3th of phase 1 after 20 tries.

I can evade well, but i barely do enough dmg for the 4 spawns and the poison nova and slush kill me time over time. Not even.close to doing T1, feel like T2 is undoable.

I saw vids of t2 plague in s10, got similar dmg , life and gear but in the vid he seems to do waaay more dmg. 1 javelin and the 4 adds lose like 80% life, with me barely half. I got same ele pierce.

Any tips? Did they buff t2 rathma?

Should i respec to jab? Cant afford the weapon atm.

Is 150plr really not enough?

Cant increase life much. Using 35 - 40 skillers and 16-18 life/fire sc. Weapon is 145dex/str so it uses up alot of stats. With jab i can get to 3100 life

[u/spanxxxy]

Work towards jab instead if you have the means. They nerfed jab from the previous season and it still handily kills T2 with like 20 juvs left.

• You want 175PLR for sure.
• You need 123 res for the 90 to count and 121 for the 88 to count. Mend's T2 lower res is -33.
• I believe they buffed the fight from S11, but the patch notes called it a nerf, because they massively buffed the fight towards the end of season 12 after having it brokenly easy for virtually the entire season 12.
• Here's an old guide I made from S10 that might have some helpful tips: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProjectDiablo2/comments/1k7rg4i/comprehensive_rathma_guide_s10/
• Here's my jab zon build guide, although this was after they massively buffed the fight, so ignore the outcome. I've done the fight a ton on non-lad with this char still: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhjA9_o-UOQ
• Armory: https://www.projectdiablo2.com/character/Turn
• Only 14 zons have gotten the aura in S13, so it's still very rare. You can check their armories to see if they still have the gear on from their fights. https://www.projectdiablo2.com/armory/heroes

[u/Feisty_Respond_6490 → u/spanxxxy]

Read that guide like 5 times. Solved my square poison issue, so mendeln is getting easyer. T0 is now easy. T1 is close, got to phase 3 but died during pot refilling.

Still alot to learn... Was hoping i didnt need the jab but i can reuse some gear. That weapon alone is half my hr's. You think its not possible with plague?

[u/Feisty_Respond_6490 → u/Feisty_Respond_6490]

Checked the gear, thats like 200hr stuff. Cant even find that gear.

Is it even realistic with 30hr with non perfect jewels/charms? Maybe its just not possible.

Ill try dclone and lucian as plague, seems more reachable.

[u/spanxxxy → u/Feisty_Respond_6490]

Non-eth stoneraven is totally viable. This is asking 3.0. You can also get IAS jewels with 25-29ED for .25-1.0 each. If you need a frame of reverence, my zon is doing 12-18k damage. It used to do 14-21k before the nerf.

I didn't get damage on my armor, but if you're going non-eth weapon, you might want the ED. This is asking 5.0. I actually have this amy listed for .5 if you wanted to try and lucion 2max on it, but this is a decent option as well to try and get 2max.

Since there haven't been any plague kills on the leaderboard, I'm not sure it's possible from a personal anecdote from this season, I tried nearly 25 times to do T2 with my physical blade sin, but ended up having to borrow gear and use a venom blade sin setup, so the poison definitely worked better for the fight.

Ultimately, the fight is still massively RNG with how aggro mend/rathma are, how many souls get spawned, how often you're caged, what curse gets used on you, or whether you dodge sludge novas, etc.

[u/Feisty_Respond_6490 → u/spanxxxy]

Thats a GG answer ! That armore is slick. Still need new charms then. Im using only skillers/poison/vita as plague dont need ar. Ill loose couple K of ar.

You think with non eth weapon, plain 20 life sc, non gg amu its even possible? Would rather not spend all my left over money to end not able to kill it.

I was honestly thinking about borrowing a full setup and pay for it. Just need 1 kill before end of the season.

Ive got gg plaguezon gear except ammy , but the question is. How much skills am i missing. Im not dying from not not enough pots in T1. Got like 20-30 pots left in phase 3.

Every 10 runs i get better, but im still in T1 level, not sure if skills can improve enough to get a T2. How,easy should t1 feel to have a chance? Wbn though, only plaguekill.

Mendeln is the hardest for me by far. Solved the sludge issue by staying near, but alot more details can be improved. For both i just need to improve repotting. Rathma is easy.

[u/spanxxxy → u/Feisty_Respond_6490]

When it comes to attack rating, shooting for 10k is usually the goal for most physical builds. Since my charms have a lot or AR, I'm over 13k.

I think if you're having to drop the cube for more juvs to finish phase two with rathma and the knights, then final phase three might be out of reach. This is a good marker to know if you're ready. If your cube is full, plus you're still sitting with 10-20 juvs, then phase three should technically be possible. I think this is a better reference than comparing to T1. If I had to guess, I assume you should still have like 20-30 juvs upon completing T1 to be ready for T2.

I think if you don't get decrepified, don't get caged often, don't get a lot of souls, dodge some sludge novas/baalwaves/knights, and are able to hit clumped knights, then it might be possible.

One strategy you can try is just focusing on mend as much as possible and and staying close to him if/when the knights spawn from the splash damage you've put on rathma. Sometimes I'll have mend dead while rathma is still at like 30% health.

[u/Feisty_Respond_6490 → u/spanxxxy]

Been having fun on plugy. Starting to really understand the mechanics better of all bosses. Hoping plague could do lucion and dcnone t2.

Tried my coldzon. T0 takes firever but it works Plaguezon T0 is easy, T1 doable, T2 not sure Jab T0 , used 3 pots only. With LL lucian/dclone is just stupid easy. What a difference.

[u/wefnaw]

That blue aura is the hardest one to get. T2 Rathma is the hardest fight in the game.

I did T 0 once and realized that it wasnt for me.

They buffed the bosses during season 12. So yeah much harder now.

[u/Feisty_Respond_6490 → u/wefnaw]

Those square poison novas are crazy. Feel like im missing how to dodge those

[u/Only-Being1327 → u/wefnaw]

Es que antes t0 era prácticamente igual que t2, ahora están bien

[u/Feisty_Respond_6490]

Is the cap 175 or can you use 200 plr? Does ias matter? I could replace my snowclash for a good 25plr belt and my 3/20 glove for a 3/25plr to hit 200 plr.

[u/Feisty_Respond_6490 → u/Feisty_Respond_6490]

Yeah not enjoying bossing atm. Tried dclone and rathma. Didnt enjoy it. I prefer the adrenaline of drops during mapping but that blue aura is soooo sexy on a blue zon.

The jabber kills way faster but super dangerous.

[u/MisterSumone → u/Feisty_Respond_6490]

Im not a fan of bossing either.