First off try and run away from that green marked area, it is so huge that it says to you “I am dealing massive damage right here in a second” and watch out for the third hit in the combo that is way bigger, his second hit targets a lot of time your follower or animal since AI in this game is beyond Haley Osment, when you are on the non green area u can unload ur skills on him and he will be dead but I wrote the rest of the song anyway. He will then spit so use your defensive skill to go around it. Then he will spawn a lot of green areas (be aware where you are standing) he will give tons of dmg after those green areas are armed. Luckily there are some spots that are not that green, run to it and stand still until new green comes where your boots are.
This guide is very necessary.
I remember having big trouble hitting and killing him some years ago with a build that only had close range attacks… (and maybe also with a pet build, like Gargantuans, where the pets wouldn’t hit him).
It’s irrelevant now. With pretty much any character build, even without high paragon or augments, he gets One shot pretty much instantly cos of the DPS creep. Even on T16. He doesn’t even get a chance to deal any damage lol.
If you are not following a build guide and running just a mixture of rares/legendary items without any thought, then yes, you will probably have issues with him.
Otherwise, he is a complete cake walk now.
The only boss that is dangerous, even to players playing established builds and with good gear etc, is Malthael. There’s no sane reason to have his (or Diablo’s) utterly annoying stop/start fight, other than in the campaign. Blizzard would do well, as a QOL implementation to change their behaviour in adventure mode.
I remember using poison darts for 120 seconds when facing him. Bossfights have changed a lot since Wilson era.
mrtheoden:
I just encounter a lot of players that die on Belial with high paragon level in bountie-games. And he gives away locations that will be blown all the time.
Malthael is a bit understandable since he can spawn that cloud on you during cut scene but dodging in gameplay is very easy except for nerves of steel when doing Malthael in 120 seconds @ HC.
I don’t think I’ve ever come across anyone dying from Belial if they are using a normal build…imho, you would have to be almost incompetent as a player to die from him these days.
You dont play that much bounties in a pub game right?
No, I don’t, I’m a solo player, so I pretty much do all of my bounties solo. But either way, Belial is very easy to kill these days - solo or group.
I used to get one shotted by Adria all the time years ago. not any more lol