D2R Mephisto

Mephisto is the Lord of Hatred, the act boss of Act III and the first Prime Evil the player fights in the game. He resides at the bottom of the Durance of Hate beneath Travincal. To reach him, the player must fight his way through two superunique Council Members: Bremm Sparkfist and Maffer Dragonhand/Wyand Voidbringer, as well as some vampires as well if they happen to spawn on the level. After defeating Mephisto, the gate to Hell will become reachable and the player can continue on to Act IV.

Mephisto is voiced by Paul Eiding who also provided the voice for the narrator in Diablo I and Diablo II.

Full Stats: Mephisto
Type: Act Boss
Found in: Durance of Hate Level 3
Quests: Mephisto is the Act Boss of Act Three, and must be killed to advance to Act Four.
Comments: Mephisto is the first of the Prime Evils a character faces in Diablo II. He is most dangerous from a distance, where his magical spells can deal heavy damage. Characters are advised to close to melee range, or else lead him to the edge of the blood moat and use spells or fire projectiles from a safe distance.

Mephisto was the first hugely popular “item run” monster, since he drops very nice, high quality items, and can be reached fairly quickly from the Durance Two waypoint. v1.10 made him somewhat more difficult to find by increasing the size of Durance Two, and he can no longer be leached for life or mana on Nightmare or Hell difficulty, but he’s still quite a popular item finding destination.

Tactics

Unlike his two brothers, who are both final bosses in a sense, Mephisto is relatively easy to deal with. He has a large variety of attacks, but most are various skills that belong to the Sorceress:

  • Lightning
  • Charged Bolt
  • Blizzard
  • Frost Nova

He also uses two special skills:

  • Skull Missile, which fires a compact ball at the player and deals cold damage
  • Poison Nova, which expands a cloud of poison from his current position. It is not the same as the Necromancer skill however, as it expands much more slowly.

Mephisto will tend to use Lightning and his Skull Missile most often, along with the Charged Bolts less frequently. He throws off the Frost Nova and Poison Nova if the player gets close, while he very rarely uses Blizzard.

For ranged characters, it’s mainly about remaining mobile. The projective skills can be easily avoided by running back and forth if they keep their distance to Mephisto. Melee characters will have harder time. The most important resist is lightning, as those attacks deal the most damage and they are his element of choice.

Monster Stats

Mephisto
Demon		 Difficulty Health Resistances Drain Effectiveness Locations (Monster Level) Highest Rune Drop
C F L M Phy Psn
Normal 6,036 25 33 33 0 0 50 100% Durance of Hate (26) Sol (12)
Nightmare 74,547 25 50 50 0 0 50 0% Durance of Hate (59) Um (22)
Hell 94,320 75 75 75 50 20 75 0% Durance of Hate (87) Cham (32)
Uber Mephisto
Hell 650,000 – 660,000 75 75 110 75 20 110 0% Chaos Tristram (110)

 

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