I had a similar problem as a few others in this thread: consistency.
I could beat Phase 1 about 99% of the time.
I could beat Phase 2 about 5% of the time.
I beat Phase 3 once in 6 attempts that got there.
I found a VERY simple and cheap way to increase that Phase 2 number from 5% to 50%+ (I got the kill within 30 minutes after changing this).
+Extra Health From Globes
Yes, I'm completely serious. Every third snake drops a health globe. Replace two of your worst pieces of gear with +6000ish Extra Health from Globes. Make sure one of them has around 5 yards increased pickup (I wouldn't get more than 7-8 yards max - it makes it harder because you waste globes).
Stuck in a corner without a teleport cooldown? Take a hit, teleport out, take another hit, down to 5% HP... THERE'S A HEALTH GLOBE - FULL HP.
It's actually ridiculous how effective this was for me and the two pieces of gear only cost 30k gold total.
Stats/Build:
36k hp, 4500 armor, 190 all res, 28k damage (with Glass Cannon and Force Weapon)
Also, I did this without any follower just to prove how ridiculous health globes were (okay, actually I forgot her). I would recommend Scoundrel or Enchantress (Enchantress is probably better because of Erosion working with Venom Hydra) for this. The Templar will stand in front of Belial and be 1-shot every cast.
Strategy:
Phase 1 - Refresh your Energy Armor (if needed). Throw up Blizzard patches in front of you and to the right of you. Run to the right end while throwing up a path of Blizzards for them to waddle through. Throw up your Hydra when you get time to help DPS them down. Teleport away right when they would reach you. Repeat this going to the left end, then the right, then the left. You should have very little issues here because globes drop everywhere in Phase 1 and you can get full hp by complete accident.
Phase 2 - This is the hardest phase by a long shot. Refresh your Energy Armor. Throw up Diamond Skin if you can because he will get a hit in immediately. Put up Hydra and Teleport away (hopefully still within Hydra range, if not recast it again). Belial will charge you three times and try to melee each time. After 3-4 seconds of not finding you (if you teleported away or he was slowed), he will give up and move to the next charge. After those 3 charges/melees, he will shoot the split orb attack four times. It is very important to keep Hydra up in this phase at all times. If you are feeling cornered by the adds and have no real escape or if you need the hp, use Hydra near the adds to fish for globes. If you are ok on adds and hp, use it near Belial (especially when he stops to shoot the orbs). Most of the time, you want to use it on Belial. Ending the phase is a huge priority.
Phase 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcV8iKXgNT8. That Witch Doctor covers the perfect movement strategy for Phase 3. I recommend practicing it on Hell just so you get the hang of it (Phase 3). The last thing you want is to get into Phase 3 and die over and over because you're making stupid mistakes (took me 6 painful deaths). All you have to do in this phase is cast Hydra every 15 seconds and focus 100% on dodging. I also frequently refreshed Energy Armor and Magic Weapon in this phase, mainly because I was paranoid.
yea if ur geared i just tried ur spec and as u are 3 shotting the adds it takes me about 5 shots with 25k health and 25k damage so whats ur gear look like.
For those of you who are stuck at this as a brick wall, I received only 1 request yesterday, and i took him through belial in about 4 pulls. The gentlman was gracious enough to give me gold for face fucking belial for him, so we both kind of won. If you need help getting out of a2 to get to the easy farms where you dont have to keep recreating on hell to get a wp, let me know in game. Add me at Rothegar#1233 stating in the message box why your adding me and i will help everyone who is in need.
I would kill the adds almost instantly, and in p2 I would still have archon up to push belial into p3. If Archon goes down, kick up health orbs to regen AP spamming AO's at belial. Use templar to block 1 of the projectiles so you don't have to me.
In p3 keep venom hydra down, and don't stop moving much. Hydra will kill the fight in plenty of time for you.
With this build/strat I was only barely able to kill belial with archon in phase 2, so this build might not work if one has significantly less than my 26k unbuffed damage, I guess.
To master phase 3, this video clarified a lot for me:
Most of phase 3 becomes easy once one gets used to the "yellow stone, 1-attack, 3-attack" scheme.
The "mortar phase" within phase 3 has some randomness - one needs to have a little bit of luck with the impact locations.
no you dont need luck, you just need to watch the order in which they spawn, and sometimes you have to sit on a targeted spot until the meteors next to you land, then move. Just dont freak out if there is green under you, it takes like 3 seconds to blow up, wait for the others around you to blow up, then move to safe ground. its easy if you pay attention and dont run around like a chicken with your head cut off
Made a video to show how I do it, not the typical build. It really doesn't take that much to get your DPS up high enough to do it like this. Buy a somewhat high dps weapon (Mines 1200 cost 300k for me), then buy rings and a neck with attack speed on them. You should be getting pretty close to 40-50k dps with that set up, and of course having high intellect.
I spent about 2 hours beating my head against the wall that is phase 2 in this fight. After finding this thread and reviewing the videos linked within, I found myself in Act 3 without any trouble.
In order to complete the first two phases I followed the video linked in this thread. I stood in the far right side, kept my Vydra/Blizzard down while spamming Piercing Orb. With Arcane Dynamo that would make subsequent Blizzards/Vydras more powerful for that phase.
For phase 2 I also executed exactly as shown in the linked video. I threw down a Vydra/Blizzard, then activated Archon and went to town on Belial. After two hits I used a pot, took the third hit, then he moved away from me. Archon faded shortly after he moved, so I dropped a new Vydra/Blizzard and finished him off with Piercing Orb. Never saw another enemy during that phase besides Belial.
For phase 3 I followed the guide laid out via the Witch Doctor video, wich the exception of standing on the yellow stone (I believe that has been hotfixed). This phase became so much easier to me when I was prepared and new what attacks to look for. This phase is 100% about surviving and movement takes precedence over performing a damaging attack. I simply kept Vydra/Blizzard on him and would Orb when I felt comfortable. Again, with Arcane Dynamo I was provided a good increase on my Vydra/Blizzard attacks.
To complete the 1st and 2nd phases in this way I highly recommend that you have as close to 30k damage as possible and a high attack speed. This method is very dependant on downing enemies quickly in phase 1 and bursting Belial down in phase 2. I did all this with2h weapon with +800 health on hit and 1.0 AS. I also have a few items that increase my AS but I don't believe it's over 1.5 total.
It's a really tough fight and I complained to my friends for 2+ hours but the feeling of finally defeating him solo is so fantastic. Keep at it and good luck!
I killed him on my second try, after failing in P2 on the first try, with about 25k hp 20k dps
Just kited everything with venom hydra and blizzard, and if i remember correctly, force armor + nova + teleport + diamond skin
used quite a few potions, but all in all, really not that difficult
Anyone available at 10:30am est time to help me with this quickly. I can get to p3 over and over, but my internet connection is crap and ill lag for just a sec and get 1 shot.
I could beat Phase 1 about 99% of the time.
I could beat Phase 2 about 5% of the time.
I beat Phase 3 once in 6 attempts that got there.
I found a VERY simple and cheap way to increase that Phase 2 number from 5% to 50%+ (I got the kill within 30 minutes after changing this).
+Extra Health From Globes
Yes, I'm completely serious. Every third snake drops a health globe. Replace two of your worst pieces of gear with +6000ish Extra Health from Globes. Make sure one of them has around 5 yards increased pickup (I wouldn't get more than 7-8 yards max - it makes it harder because you waste globes).
Stuck in a corner without a teleport cooldown? Take a hit, teleport out, take another hit, down to 5% HP... THERE'S A HEALTH GLOBE - FULL HP.
It's actually ridiculous how effective this was for me and the two pieces of gear only cost 30k gold total.
Stats/Build:
36k hp, 4500 armor, 190 all res, 28k damage (with Glass Cannon and Force Weapon)
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/wizard#RlOSXQ!XdY!bbYZaY
Also, I did this without any follower just to prove how ridiculous health globes were (okay, actually I forgot her). I would recommend Scoundrel or Enchantress (Enchantress is probably better because of Erosion working with Venom Hydra) for this. The Templar will stand in front of Belial and be 1-shot every cast.
Strategy:
Phase 1 - Refresh your Energy Armor (if needed). Throw up Blizzard patches in front of you and to the right of you. Run to the right end while throwing up a path of Blizzards for them to waddle through. Throw up your Hydra when you get time to help DPS them down. Teleport away right when they would reach you. Repeat this going to the left end, then the right, then the left. You should have very little issues here because globes drop everywhere in Phase 1 and you can get full hp by complete accident.
Phase 2 - This is the hardest phase by a long shot. Refresh your Energy Armor. Throw up Diamond Skin if you can because he will get a hit in immediately. Put up Hydra and Teleport away (hopefully still within Hydra range, if not recast it again). Belial will charge you three times and try to melee each time. After 3-4 seconds of not finding you (if you teleported away or he was slowed), he will give up and move to the next charge. After those 3 charges/melees, he will shoot the split orb attack four times. It is very important to keep Hydra up in this phase at all times. If you are feeling cornered by the adds and have no real escape or if you need the hp, use Hydra near the adds to fish for globes. If you are ok on adds and hp, use it near Belial (especially when he stops to shoot the orbs). Most of the time, you want to use it on Belial. Ending the phase is a huge priority.
Phase 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcV8iKXgNT8. That Witch Doctor covers the perfect movement strategy for Phase 3. I recommend practicing it on Hell just so you get the hang of it (Phase 3). The last thing you want is to get into Phase 3 and die over and over because you're making stupid mistakes (took me 6 painful deaths). All you have to do in this phase is cast Hydra every 15 seconds and focus 100% on dodging. I also frequently refreshed Energy Armor and Magic Weapon in this phase, mainly because I was paranoid.
yea if ur geared i just tried ur spec and as u are 3 shotting the adds it takes me about 5 shots with 25k health and 25k damage so whats ur gear look like.
I would kill the adds almost instantly, and in p2 I would still have archon up to push belial into p3. If Archon goes down, kick up health orbs to regen AP spamming AO's at belial. Use templar to block 1 of the projectiles so you don't have to me.
In p3 keep venom hydra down, and don't stop moving much. Hydra will kill the fight in plenty of time for you.
no you dont need luck, you just need to watch the order in which they spawn, and sometimes you have to sit on a targeted spot until the meteors next to you land, then move. Just dont freak out if there is green under you, it takes like 3 seconds to blow up, wait for the others around you to blow up, then move to safe ground. its easy if you pay attention and dont run around like a chicken with your head cut off
Made a video to show how I do it, not the typical build. It really doesn't take that much to get your DPS up high enough to do it like this. Buy a somewhat high dps weapon (Mines 1200 cost 300k for me), then buy rings and a neck with attack speed on them. You should be getting pretty close to 40-50k dps with that set up, and of course having high intellect.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/wizard#RcmOjS!YXU!bacYaZ
My stats at the time I defeated Belial were:
In order to complete the first two phases I followed the video linked in this thread. I stood in the far right side, kept my Vydra/Blizzard down while spamming Piercing Orb. With Arcane Dynamo that would make subsequent Blizzards/Vydras more powerful for that phase.
For phase 2 I also executed exactly as shown in the linked video. I threw down a Vydra/Blizzard, then activated Archon and went to town on Belial. After two hits I used a pot, took the third hit, then he moved away from me. Archon faded shortly after he moved, so I dropped a new Vydra/Blizzard and finished him off with Piercing Orb. Never saw another enemy during that phase besides Belial.
For phase 3 I followed the guide laid out via the Witch Doctor video, wich the exception of standing on the yellow stone (I believe that has been hotfixed). This phase became so much easier to me when I was prepared and new what attacks to look for. This phase is 100% about surviving and movement takes precedence over performing a damaging attack. I simply kept Vydra/Blizzard on him and would Orb when I felt comfortable. Again, with Arcane Dynamo I was provided a good increase on my Vydra/Blizzard attacks.
To complete the 1st and 2nd phases in this way I highly recommend that you have as close to 30k damage as possible and a high attack speed. This method is very dependant on downing enemies quickly in phase 1 and bursting Belial down in phase 2. I did all this with2h weapon with +800 health on hit and 1.0 AS. I also have a few items that increase my AS but I don't believe it's over 1.5 total.
It's a really tough fight and I complained to my friends for 2+ hours but the feeling of finally defeating him solo is so fantastic. Keep at it and good luck!
- aethyal
Just kited everything with venom hydra and blizzard, and if i remember correctly, force armor + nova + teleport + diamond skin
used quite a few potions, but all in all, really not that difficult
Can someone help me? My tag is dexter#1691