Learn the secrets to one-shotting Belial every time. This fight really is quite easy once you get the mechanics of it down. I break down each phase of the fight here in this guide.
Phase 1
Phase 1 will spawn some adds first and then Belial will hop down. Just stay close to Belial so he doesn’t spawn the hellfire waves(the three green balls of fire) and if he does, just avoid them. With decent HP and resist you should be able to take a few hits from those fires without any issue either. Phase 1 is REALLY easy now after the 1.0.3 nerf to Inferno damage.
Phase 2
Phase 2 Belial goes all Hulk. The main ability you want to watch out for in Phase 2 is his combo attack. This is where he’ll attack the same general area three times in a row, with two one handed attacks first and then with both arms(claws?).
So whenever you see a green swirly hole appear on the ground immediately run BACK, as far away from Belial as possible and then pick a random directly and keep running until he finishes casting all three attacks. If you try to go in for some extra DPS before he finishes casting all three there’s a good chance you’ll get hit by one of them.
Also Belial sometimes just does a single swing, so if after two seconds he doesn’t do a follow up attack just go back to attacking him as that was not his combo attack.
Don’t even worry about avoiding Belial’s breath attack, as a monk it’s extremely difficult to avoid it. It should only take you down to 1/2, 1/4th HP at the most. Just pop a heal or pot after you get hit by the breath.
The most difficult part about Belial in phase 2 is when he sticks both of his arms into the ground and starts shooting green fireballs everywhere. The important things here is to STAY CALM and move in small steps. The green balls are NOT random. They will spawn on top of you, and if you run around like crazy you will very quickly fill the entire map with green fireballs and have no safe place to stand. So the thing to do here is to move just outside the range of the fireball that spawns ontop of you, and keep doing that. Save serenity incase you get caught in a spot with no escape.
Well that’s it, Belial should be a VERY easy fight for Monks now that damage has been nerfed in 1.0.3.
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This is the build I used in the video, the attack speed/crit build.
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