What exactly do his attacks in hell consist of? Is it fire and cold damage? I know he has magic damage with the spears, but what else? The ring of fire thing that nihl does also, is that just fire damage?

I know sammy isn't all that tough, just thinking of what kind of absorbs I should have. I just threw one of each gem cold, fire, light, in my shield and that helped a lot. Just wondering if the topaz was a waste though. He didn't seem to be doing any lightning attacks.

Anyone have any idea on the optimal absorbs for him?

From what I can tell his hardest hitting attacks are his fissure and melee. He gets a lot easier to tank with 40 fire abs, 50%+DR%, and some block.

He always hits me the hardest with bone spears.

Maybe, I never notice his spears because his AI doesn't use it in melee range most of the time.

use a decent safety craft shield if the mag damage is hurting the most. I always had the most damage prom phys and fire like drrod says, his ranged attacks dont seen nearly as strong to me.

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