TLDR: I’m quitting the game until next season because Uber Abberoth has ruined it for me. I feel trapped because I can’t start my next character until I get his item drops (because it needs those for it to work), so I’m in limbo. I tried coming back to the game a few times since my initial 100ish attempts at Uber Abberoth and the whole experience just feels too grueling to continue. If I could, I’d take a handful of his 1LP drops and never battle him again.
Ubber Abberoth is demoralizing. I feel like unless you’re Wudijo or playing one of the top 3 meta builds or exploiting snapshotting you really don’t stand a chance. I’ve always made my own builds and I take pride in never using guides. This season i’ve been able to reach around 1.2k corruption comfortably but I’ve never felt weaker slamming my face into ubber abberoth over and over again. I have 5k hp, 69% armor, a ton of DOT reduction, great sustain, and 2.5k endurance threshold with max endurance. I’ve learned his mechanics like the back of my hand, I dodge time shatter slam every time and I know which abilities are the a threat but innevitably I’m caught by something unexpected some time during the fight. It just takes so long. Attempts that are even a little close are like almost 20 minutes and I’m bound to be caught by something before then. I’ve run it close to a 100 times now and I just am not having fun anymore. I went from feeling power fantasy to feeling like I couldn’t hurt a fly. I don’t even care that much about fighting Ubber Abberoth for the accomplishment, I just want the items since I play COF exclusively and can’t just buy them. He really does make me feel “Weak and Worthless” lol. My build is more or less capped out unless I get some really high rarity 3lp items so I feel like there’s no escaping the rut. My main complaints are the following:
Ground effects: The incredibly lethal line ground effect should not be hidden by the ground effects from the orbs that fly across the screen. Accidently stepping on super death zone because I cant see it under 3 orb pools makes up like half my deaths.
Less Health: I think Ubber Abberoth is simply too tanky. The fight takes so long that each death feels like a punch to the gut. I play a lot of souls games and one of the things that makes them work is that even though the boss can kill you very easily, you can also wear most of them down relatively quickly. High lethality all around.
Wait…what build NEEDS Ubberoth items to be enabled?
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Exactly, many people appear to confuse want with need. He drops no build enabling uniques, only uniques that can make your build better.
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Seconded by the person above, just put together a falconer
I tried to kill him on warpath - it did not work, damage and survivability is not enough, then I collected paladin through revenge, survivability there is not bad, but just at some point you get a unblocked blow that kills you instantly, and the damage there is very little, the fight with such a build can last more than 15 minutes.
I abandoned sentinel, went to play on falconer umbral blades, as much as I could gain dexterity, it came out something like 170, red rings removed - without lp with dexterity they although they give a reduction in incoming damage, but without dexterity myself lose a lot of damage, instead of them were phantom grip with dexterity.
In the end, this glass cannon killed him, it took a little more than 10 attempts, where I’ll jump into some DOT, where I’m unclear what will kill me, but when everything coincided successfully for me, I never once made a mistake at the boss made mostly the simplest attacks - I killed him.
From all this I concluded that it’s better to try to kill him on a glass cannon than on a can, on the can you have to spend a lot more effort to make it not die in the fight.
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Also abandoned the game before the balance appeared
None of his uniques are needed for any build, so really what ruined the game for you isn’t Uby, it’s your perception of the game.
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Not that I agree with the OP, but this video doesn’t help his image of the game since it doesn’t show the equipment used. His complaint is about not being able to get the Uber Uniques in order to do this. Sure, maybe none were used in the build in this video but the video doesn’t show that.
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Throw a better guide here, which builds and how to kill Uber, while these builds are not expensive).
Just look at any of Aaron’s guides that killed Uby. It’s not one of his goals, but on some he kills him.
Most of his builds are cruising 800-1000 corruption and none of them uses any of the Uby uniques, red rings, ravenous voids and most don’t even use Nihilis.
As I said, no build needs them. They are part of the chase uniques that will “finish” the build. They’re for min-maxing only. They’re the last piece you chase after. Once you do, there’s nothing else to improve.
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Let me ask you this…when the season started…how many people do you think they had Ubberoth items before…killing Ubberoth?..I…dont know how to show better than this question that you do not “need” his items to kill Ubberoth.
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So I understand that they are not needed, you for the person who created this topic discount specific guides how to do it
If a guide shows Red Ring, Ravenous Void, Shattered Worlds, etc, as required, then it’s a bad guide.
A good guide will show you the best attainable options and then will show you the aspirational items, which would them include those chase uniques.
A good example of this is maxroll. Their guides usually have multiple stages of gear and only on aspirational do these items show up (and even then, not always).
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I wanted to show with the link to the video how some people farm uber by the hundreds, while we are hard workers, trying to do it honestly and with the builds that we like to play.
I do not recognize the bugs, an example of which is shown in the video, and will never reproduce it.
I can not stand the rogue as an archetype and will never play it.
I do not like those three builds that can kill ubberoth, their gameplay. I just do not like playing them. There are a dozen builds that I enjoy playing, but they are too pitiful in the face of the terrible uberoth.
And yes, I am not complaining about the difficulty of the uber boss. The uber boss should be difficult. In the season in which it debuts, it should be very difficult. And contain strong and tempting items, for the sake of which you need to try hard (right, falconers?). I complain only about the state of the classes and their terrible balance. It’s like I’m going back to the dark times of playing PoE, where I was forced to play one specific skill in one specific class if I wanted to get anywhere…
Remembered about PoE, depression rolled in. Let’s not think about the bad, good and positive to everyone 
You mean that can cheese Uby. There are more builds that can kill him.
In fact, when Mike showed the Uby kills by mastery, they were all represented. I was even surprised that Necro was around the middle of the table and FG was at the bottom.
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Something tells me that those Necros are snapshotting which…should not count. But maybe I am wrong 
Maybe. But there were still kills with pretty much every mastery, and most don’t snapshot. Spellblade, Warlock, Runemaster, Marskman, Bladedancer, etc.
And even with snapshotting, I don’t know if Necro minions can survive Uby reliably and especially not stand in the debuff pools that will remove all their damage.
But the point is that all masteries have builds that can kill Uby, not just the 3-4 known cheese ones.
Oh yeah I am not doubting the ability of other classes to kill Ubberoth. I just meant that I am sure snapshotting is involved in some of those Necro Ubberoth kills and if they were to remove that at this very moment they would fall a bit or more depending on how many actually snapshot on that Ubberoth kill ladder.
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