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Blizzard Guides | Email Us Belial Class Guide General Tips For All Classes - Honestly I love DPS. But DPS is not everything here. I noticed in this fight I had low health and I was under leveled by 2 levels. SO VITALITY Is a huge factor in this fight! I suggest getting beefy. (At least 1500Health). If you can mange to get your vitality up really high, then this fight becomes SO MUCH EASIER! -When he puts his Arms into the ground start running around and avoid the green spots (Dodge all the green circle whirlpool things.) - Bring plenty of Health Potions and pick up the health orbs he drops when your heath is low. (Make sure your at full health before he begins K.O Move.. Green Whirlpool things.) - Use health pots strategically - try to keep life above 80% at all times (or whatever won't get you one/two shotted by the whirlpools if you do get hit). -Enable Elective Mode (Options>Gameplay>Elective Mode) I think it cripples your potential, and less customization with your skills if disabled. -A lot of players have reported that a high latency can affect the fight with Belial, so try to get your latency down as much as you can. I recommend below 300 for an easier battle. - Items that give + to movement speed really helps with this fight to help you avoid the green circles. -One critical thing that helped me out a lot, was to bind the middle mouse button to "move". So when the green swirls started coming, I could use that button to move out of the way without accidentally clicking on part of Belial instead. General playing strategies:Stay near the right side of the platform. dodge the green circles, run back to the right side. You're guaranteed to dodge his poison spray attack, which hits you anywhere else (except the far left side, but you can't really see anything and end up misclicking on belial all the time). I've also found that less green circles appear at the far edge, making those easier to dodge. The whirlpool avoidance is really the only hard part about this boss on normal. I think a good tip on avoiding them is to watch/plot/time your movement to coincide with the whirlpool/nuke finishing. There are 3 stages to each whirlpool. Stage 1 is appearing and you don't have much time if any to get out of the pool before it starts ticking on you, which is stage two. Stage 3 is the nuke explosion. All together, I think the pools last for 2-3 seconds before they disappear. What I do is I'll try and plot a path through the whirlpools and keep running a safe direction and double back on those pools that are now disappearing. You can time it and cross back over the pools that have disappeared for safety. The other stuff he does require just small movements to avoid. Except for the breath sweep which hits like a little schoolgirl much of the time. Barbarian specific tips: - I basically focused on survivability through skills like revenge for additional heals, nerves of steel, ignore etc and fairly vitality focused and ran around the room dodging all the whirlpools, was not that difficult. - I also used the 3 barbarians - this move itself took out about 1/3 of his life (I saved it for near the end as a finishing move to decrease the time he's in his crazy whirlpool stage). I'd be interested to see if anyone used earthquake and whether this was comparable to the barbarians - Frenzy seemed like the choice for single-target damage here. - I also used threatening shout (not even sure if this works with the whirlpool damage - think Battle Cry might've been better for additional damage, but mainly used this with inspiring presence for the heals). Stage one: Belial summons bunch of lizards at you - easy job, save your cool downs this stage ends quickly. Stage two: Belial teleports down and is fairly easy to beat at this stage, throws a few poison shots at you, a few lizard buddies to back him up - shouldn't be any trouble. At around 10 or 20% life, he goes into stage 3 - his real form. Stage three: Belial becomes a gigantic demon at this stage. Here are his moves (if memory serves correct). 1) Breath of poison sweeping across the screen - this did not seem like it hit very hard, most of the time I just took the hit. There's an animation that preludes this move so I'm guessing in nightmare+ if this starts hitting hard, if you see this coming, you basically have to run ASAP to the other side of the room from where he starts breathing it 2) Poison gas whirlpools - first 50% of his life or so, this move is not THAT bad. You can still hit him a few times as there's still plenty of space on the ground (you do need to move initially as he almost always puts a whirlpool where you are standing at the start of the move). You have about half a second from when the initial graphics appear to get off which shouldn't be a problem. Once he hits around 50% or lower life, he goes hardcore iwth this, and there is literally 2-3 spaces you can stand without getting horribly murdered. 3) Fist smash - for some reason these never hit me (lucky?) ...