Mephisto, Lord of Hatred

Mephisto is the Lord of Hatred Hate and Act 3 Boss. He is a Prime Evil and father to the Greater Demons Lilith and Lucion, he is the oldest of the three and is a mainly elemental aligned boss. His abilities are mostly lightning based with one cold ball attack, one of his more notable features is the mana drain curse; this curse reduces your max mana by 100% and mana regeneration rate by 500%. A less noticed feature of the mana drain curse is also the fact it is a massive lightning pierce curse. The lightning resist penalty is almost 60 in normal, 80 in nightmare, and 100 in hell difficulty. The mana drain curse has an exceedingly long duration and is not dispelled by visiting vendors.

Strategy for defeating him is firstly to prepare gear, you will need some %max mana so you are not left with 0 mana when his curse hits, % max mana is readily available in saphires of all type. You will also want enough lightning resistance to max it plus more to counter any pierce he will apply to you. Thors bane or other max lightning resistance crafts would be a wise investment also. In normal difficulty mephisto's physical attack does a fair amount of damage and is somthing to be warey of, other than that with adequete resistance he shouldnt pose to much of a problem. In later difficulties the melee damage is rather poor so direct meleeing is a very effective strategy.

- DreadTalon 04:43, 20 December 2008 (UTC)