Belial is the guy at the end of act 2, and the last part is really hard. I never seem to get his life very low. How do you beat him as a monk?
Diablo – How to beat Belial in Diablo 3 as a Monk
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Sadly, I think the only effective way to protect yourself from knock-back right now is to increase your dodge %, since dodging attacks that knock you back will keep you from getting knocked back.
It's noteworthy that blocking an attack with a shield won't keep you from getting used as a pinball.
You will not lose the gear that you have gathered.
You will lose save progress if you start at part 1, you can go back to the quests you already done (In your example 7 to 9).
The way the party system works is that you always enter the game at the level that the host is playing at. If they are further ahead of your character personally you will join them at part 7 (in your example).
When you go back to your own personal game, you can start back at part 1 but it will prompt you to save over your spot in the game. You can continue on from part 9, but you lose out on the story line in between.
What you can do is have your friend join you in your game and help you kill the butcher and jump ahead after that is done.
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Stage 1
Kill all the worms which is trivial.
Stage 2
Focus on Belial and let your companions handle the little guys for the most part. Make sure at the end of this round you are full on spirit or else you'll be in much worse shape.
Stage 3
From what I can tell, Belial has 3 main abilities:
It requires a little concentration, but if you counter each one individually, it's much easier.
When he whacks you, you are in his melee range and it doesn't hit very hard, so you can basically ignore it.
When he spews green stuff, make sure you 300 life and you should live through it.
The green exploding void zones are the hard part. These will tag you for bleeding damage while you are standing in them and then they pop you for 500-600 when they explode. The only real strategy for these is to run away from them. I have found that running around the outer edge of his zone gives you the most room to work with and tends to be a lot less busy so you can see yourself the whole time.
This is not a DPS fight! Focus on keeping yourself at full life. I used the aura that heals you when you use spirit and the one that gives you 100 extra spirit. I don't think the mantras I had at this point are particularly useful for this fight, but I used the one that increases dodge to help with the first 2 stages. I also used the aura companion spell and the heal party spell. I had the enchantress follower with me.
The basic strategy is to keep your spirit capped off, and as soon as you take damage, blow some spirit. During the slow parts, run up to him and build your spirit back up. Don't forget to use your potion if you get into trouble and don't worry about your companions, they will figure it out. The last piece of advice is to not go crazy and blow all your heals when you take damage. If he hits you with a whack as you are lighting up your spirit orb or you take a green spit, just cast a single damage spell that uses spirit and save the big cool downs for when you are running away from the green voids.
Lastly, health globes do pop up in melee range quite often. It's more important to keep yourself topped off than it is to DPS.