[Entro] Advice Wanted - GWoPs, Babbles, Poison Needles

[Djabanete]

Hello all you Heng/Entro experts (I know some of you still haunt these fora),
I've finally gotten a character within striking distance of the Serpent and my first Entro win, and I'm looking for some advice on how to tackle the final two Arena challenges. The two strategies I've heard of for taking down the GWoP/Babble are:

-Shooting, with Rings of Extra Shots
-Meleeing, with Poison Needles

Any thoughts on which of these provides me with the best chances (against each of the two monsters)? I don't fancy meleeing the GWoP with my regular weapons (because of all those elemental auras), and from what I've heard of the babble, I may not even get close to it...
Side question: do Poison Needles work against uniques?

Thanks in advance!

Chardump is here.

Advice on fighting the Serpent (whether I'm "ready", how much healing I need) is also very welcome, but I think I have more of a handle on that --- AFAIK, the difference between the Serpent and other uniques is really just a question of degree.

[zaimoni]

Hello all you Heng/Entro experts (I know some of you still haunt these fora),
I've finally gotten a character within striking distance of the Serpent and my first Entro win, and I'm looking for some advice on how to tackle the final two Arena challenges. The two strategies I've heard of for taking down the GWoP/Babble are:

-Shooting, with Rings of Extra Shots
-Meleeing, with Poison Needles

It would depend on your current skill set, and exactly how good those Rings of Extra Shots are. The Metal Babble has a specific hard-coded vulnerability to poison needles, but it takes a rather high skill level to pull off.

I always thought of the Arena as "get in, get out while the getting's good" -- the difficulty curve ramps up way too fast at the end.