Is Dreamadin good for Ubers-also merc help

[:1]So I finally managed to get ahold of dual dreams and switch from a Tesladin to a Dreamadin, I want to start farming keys/organs and doing Uber runs at some point hopefully soon. I was reading about smite being best on the ubers, but it doesnt give the 1-7000 lightning damage/hit so I was wondering if I have conviction running at level 25ish and Fanaticism from Beast if I would still have trouble hitting the Ubers.

I guess the other concern is that the ctc confuse may override life tap and maybe that could be fatal?

was thinking of getting a Beast war spike or Cadduceus (for fastest zeal with only highlords off weapon ias)

I would prefer to just use Conviction as my main aura along with Fanat and HS from weapons



Currently my gear is:

Crescent moon Phase Blade

Dream grand crown (343 d) (got tired of waiting, and rolled like 8 res all )

Dream Vortex shield (489 d) bad roll again 48 res all

Chains of honor in Sharktooth (867 d) (str req may be too high, maybe give to merc)

Marrowalk boots (199 d ) (str and vit-plus i can cast life tap if necessary)

Draculs 10 ll 13 str (125 d )

String of Ears (107 d )

Highlords wrath amy

Ravenfrost ring

lame LL mf ring-want Bul Kathos I think

some cold res sc's

on switch I have Hoz and trying to figure out what the best weapon would be for this...grief phase blade? only downside is no cb...do I need cb here or do I get it somewhere else (i have guilaumes but it would break Dream...do i switch items just for Mephy smiting)

I have 10 stat points and 12 skill points still remaining...and 2 resets.

Defense is 2200 (6000 with lvl 10 HS and 70% to block. Is there any point caring about defense if my armor is under 1000? do I need to ditch the CoH?)

zeal ar is 1658 (only 1 hard point)

Life is around 1000 (I screwed up here and put too many in str...I have a wyrmhide CoH I can give him instead

Resists are 57 fire/64 cold/ 85 light/ 48 poison

-sadly I have all runewords so nowhere to put an UM

(If I ditch conviction I have 110 res all from salvation but I guess that would only be for smiting Uber Meph)

My skills are :

20 Resist Lightning (synergy)

20 Salvation (synergy)

1 in redemtion vigor and their prereqs

1 in zeal(4 inc skills gives me 5 hits)

7 in HS (10 total...i was considering maxing it but not sure it's worth it unless I change to higher def armor and that would mean finding resists somewhere else)

I am totally new to everything that comes after defeating hell baal so I guess I am asking if this is the wrong build for doing those runs and also for killing Ubers.

I would try to trade for enigma to teleport on key/organ runs but my resists would be horrible. I also have a 84 sorc that could do the teleporting stuff, but I seem to suck with her and can't find a skill setup that works for me (gone through all resets and a token now still sucks)

My other problem is finding the right merc. I have no idea if they can be counted on when doing Ubers. If I rely on them for an aura and they die I don't want that to be the end for me. I currently am experimenting with a COLD Iron Wolf (A3) with eth shako vipermagi spirit sword and Lidless wall. He does ok damage with conviction on but I was hoping he would help more with crowd control...he never seems to freeze the guys who are actually attacking me.

I could go back to a Holy Freeze merc or a Defiance one, but when I hired my iron wolf I was distracted and my Hone Sundan, gladiators Bane and a tal helm were lost. I could give him my CoH sharktooth and my Andy's Visage just need to find a good spear/pole. Maybe Pride for Conc? and maybe just go Might merc for max damage lol? I am guessing that might be a bad idea and I need to focus on survivability vs Ubers? Would an Eth upped Shaftstop(30% DR) be a good armor for him instead of CoH...maybe Um'd? It lacks the LL but he could have 10 from Andys and the resists aren't needed to get to 75.

The Act 1 merc with Faith bow for fanat would replace the need for beast, or allow me to have fanat while smiting I guess, but thats expensive, and I am guessing she would die pretty easily agains Ubers?

I am sorry this is long...i will try to edit it down later.

Great thanks to anyone who has any advice to offer.|||Hi

Dreamer can be very powerful especially with very expensive gear. And the CAN solo ubers very well. But some things you need to remember. With dual dreams there will be pretty much NO chance getting the ubers one at a time. Odds will be good that you WILL wake up all up at once as soon as you enter UT so be ready for it.

Grief and 1 pt smite can handle the Ubers. Maybe try for duress and gores (or even gobby toes) to make it quicker but you should whittle em down even with zeal//conviction combo as long as your lifetap stays up and u dont get 1 hit kille) and the ITD on grief will let u be able to zeal through the minions

And speaking of not getting 1 hit killed--1000 life is a bit light for UT. Try to max it up a bit and if possible get a CtA//sprit combo on switch. Upping your life will up your chances of survival way more than anything else for you at this point considering your gear. I would go as far to say bumping your life and just getting gobby toes would increase your success chances more than say a grief or beast weopon.

One other thing if your conviction is higher than 20 mephys conviction wont affect you so you can run it safely (it just wont help your party a smuch as salvation would--if youre part of a party that is)

As for your merc. Normally I dont worry bout mercs in UT since their chances of getting through are slightly less than those red shirt guys on the old time star trek but If you must I would go with a might merc. Of the gear you stated a CoH for leach and resists along with something like a Blackhorns face (mephys lightning is the most dangerous thing in UT) and best stick you can get for him will probably be best way to help his chances of avoiding dirtnap.

Anways that just me Im sure others will have much better advice

Kaytie