The cheapest smiter EVER - The guide

[RaZzor]

The cheapest smiter ever - by .razzor

About

With this guide, I'll show you how to build a very cheap smiter, that can still solo Ubers in ~1 minute. My idea behind this build was, that if you have a very high chance of crushing blow, you can still get a moderate damage that is enough for ubers.

Gear

Hemlet: Guillames Face - Socketed with Um rune or 15 IAS jewel.
Armor: Treachery (Shael Thul Lem) runeword. 45 IAS and chance to gain fade. IAS is exactly what we need and level 15 fade increases your resistances by 61.
Belt: Verdungos - Not that expensive, but if you cant afford that, you also can use string of ears for 15% damage reduced.
Gloves: Dracs - Nothing to say about.
Boots: Gore Rider - If you can't afford that, you can also use goblin toe. It has even 10% more chance for crushing blow and that's exactly what we need for this build.
Shield: Zaka - That's the only quite expensive thing at this build. Socketed with perf diamond. My advice is to upgrade it with perf diamond, Ko and Lem rune. If you can't afford that, you also can go with spirit on sacred targe or zakarum shield with extra +resistances. Go for max block if you use zaka, if you use spirit you'll need too much dexterity.
Weapon: Black (Thul Io Nef) on scourge. 15 IAS and 40% crushing blow. Nothing to say about.
Amulett: Seraph or highlords. Yes, I know that deadly strike doesn't work with smite, but it has 20 IAS and +1 skills. Seraph has +2 skills and demon ED. They're both good.
Ring 1: Nature's Peace. It's necessary because you don't have prevent monster heal yet. If you can't afford that, you can go with some +resistances ring.
Ring 2: Raven Frost. It's annoying to be frozen by baal's attack, and if you fight against baal and meph, you'll die if you're frozen. Also it has +dexterity so you don't need to put that much into it for max block. If you can't afford that you can go with a +resistances ring.

Inventory

I don't use a torch on this char, because I can't pickup a torch then (lol). I got my whole inventory full with FHR charms. I think that's the best. Only tome of town portal and other 2 free spaces for torch left. If you use 9 12% FHR GC's and 9 5% FHR SC's, you gain 153 FHR, which is between 4 Frames (86% FHR) and 3 Frames (200% FHR).

Skills

Smite: 20 points - Your main attack.
Holy Shield: 20 points - Increases your damage and gives +blockchance and +defense.
Fanatiscm: 20 points - Your main aura. Increases your damage and gives IAS.
Defiance: Defense boost for holy shield.
Vigor: 1 point - For moving faster. Not necessary.
Cleansing: 1 point - Not necessary.

Stats:

Strength: As always, only that much you need.
Dexterity: If you go with zaka, enough for max block. You can simply figure out if you got max block by moving your cursor over your defense. You'll get displayed what % chance to block you have. ACTIVATE HOLY SHIELD BEFORE STATING DEXTERITY (Increases your chance to block as I said). If you're lvl 90 it's about 130 dexterity for max block with zaka. If you don't use zaka, only that much you need for your equipment.
Vitality: Rest.
Energy: Nothing.

Mercenary:

Act 2 nightmare offensive merc.

Mercstuff:

Helmet: Best would be andy face - If you can't afford that, go for crown of thieves or gaze.
Weapon: Obedience eth cryptic axe. It has over 1000 max damage and +resistances. Not bad and really cheap (Hel Ko Thul Eth Fal). If you can't afford that, you could go with eth ariocs needle or spire of honor socketed with amn.
Armor: Treachery on some eth elite armor. If you can afford, leviathan socketed with um or 15 IAS jewel.

That's all!

Hope you liked it. If you use gore riders, you have 90% crushing blow, and if you use goblin toe, you got 100%. I tested it in single player, and I got 1,3k shown dmg and solo ubers in ~1 minute.

Greetz

[Mc_Blackzon]

Looks nice... cheap and nice.

[Laral9c]

I would get rid of the hoz, after all this is cheap build and hoz imo, is more a hammerdin sheild with the low smite dmg it has. Instead go for a spirit kurast or sanc sheild, everything else looks pretty good.

Also, another good armor for merc would uped eth shaft /w um

[RaZzor]

I said if you go with hoz, you should upgrade it. Then it has more damage than Kurast.

Kurats has 154-172. Upped hoz is zakarum shield and it has 169-193 damage.

[L4E]

1-zakarum shiels are shit, people think the very close min-max dmg will help much, but with holy shield active, the min/max diff isnt very big on any sheild
2-prevent monster heal does not affect bosses
3-im preety sure fade also gives DR
4-u can have a few 5% fhr scs and spirit, u will easily reach 86% fhr
5-blocking isnt very improtant when ur just fighting ubers, so spirit is better since it has 55%fhr
6-there is no such thing as "in between frames" so either u get 200% or u get 86% fhr
7-merc is completely usless since he dies in one second..
8- if u haven't realised, 5fhr x3 = 15fhr, so if u truly are crazy enough to want so much fhr, use scs and get 180% the guillaums face will complete u to 200%..
9- u tested that build on single played meaning no lag, meaning way better perfomance. I have had -more or less- that exact build on west Ladder for quite a while and i can solo ubers, and we all know CB = boss pwnage

btw, when i say spirit, i mean a 40+ base res spirit
other that those points that's a good build i guess.. even though a hell of alot of ppl have already figured this build out

[Laral9c]

how are you getting this? lvl 20 holyshield kurast=67-142, zak shield (not hoz or uped hoz, just a plain zak shield) only has 102-106 smite dmg. If you're comparing a plain kurast sheild then yeah hoz is going to have more, but im saying get a kurast sheild with enchanced dmg, give it 4sockets make spirit.

[RaZzor]

2-prevent monster heal does not affect bosses
3-im preety sure fade also gives DR
8- if u haven't realised, 5fhr x3 = 15fhr

2. Sure it does.
3. Yeah I forgot that one.
8. Dude, I'm drunk.

[dkim]

nice guide

[ArcaneSupremacy]

Decent build, but crappy guide.

[L4E]

[quote=RaZzor]2. Sure it does.[quote]
no it doesnt.. why u think when smiting with grief bosses still heal?

[ZeratulsDownfall]

Sorry to sound like a jackass... But what in the hell is DR? lmao

how are you getting this? lvl 20 holyshield kurast=67-142, zak shield (not hoz or uped hoz, just a plain zak shield) only has 102-106 smite dmg. If you're comparing a plain kurast sheild then yeah hoz is going to have more, but im saying get a kurast sheild with enchanced dmg, give it 4sockets make spirit.

Does all enchanced dmg work on smite (IE, if it's in a helm or something from jewels?) Or just if it's on a shield... Because then wouldn't the kurast shield with ench dmg be pointless? (and what about resists?)

[ArcaneSupremacy]

Sorry to sound like a jackass... But what in the hell is DR? lmao





Does all enchanced dmg work on smite (IE, if it's in a helm or something from jewels?) Or just if it's on a shield... Because then wouldn't the kurast shield with ench dmg be pointless? (and what about resists?)

DR = damage reduction (usu. physical damage reduction), from sources such as CoA, Shaftstop, Verdungo's, etc.

All off-weapon enhanced damage works with Smite.

[ZeratulsDownfall]

DR = damage reduction (usu. physical damage reduction), from sources such as CoA, Shaftstop, Verdungo's, etc.

All off-weapon enhanced damage works with Smite.

I gotcha! lol

So, in a nice quick summary... Get the smite-pally:

-A strong shield.
-Alot of Faster Hit Recovery
-Alot of Increased Attack Speed
-Alot of Damage Reduction (by %)


Cool... For mine (since he only really uses 80 of his 110 skill points to max his skills), i was thinking of getting 1 in each of the resistances, for every two points, it increases your max resist by 1. lol. It'll be good with all the + to skill items :P

[ArcaneSupremacy]

Faster Hit Recovery isn't very useful for Smite. Smite cannot be interrupted, so as long as you keep attacking, nothing should knock you over. Against certain ranged attackers you may wish to switch in some gear/charms with FHR.

[Mathalamus]

does elemental damage add to smite?? fire,ice,lighting,and poison?

srry 4 noob question..

[ArcaneSupremacy]

does elemental damage add to smite?? fire,ice,lighting,and poison?

srry 4 noob question..

No, it does not. Smite is purely physical.

[Mathalamus]

aww i had a hacked pally wich does 197k max...i need to go up to 500k....

[ZeratulsDownfall]

aww i had a hacked pally wich does 197k max...i need to go up to 500k....

Realm or offline? If she's offline, you can easily get to over 5 mill...

[Mathalamus]

offline char

my record is 500k

EDIT:: i got up to 197k at lvl 99 250k at lvl 127

[loki.fish]

Why a 3 socket scourge for Black......what about a flail or knout. A smiter doesn't attack with a weapon, only shield right?