smiter's best equipment?

[KoR_Muffin]

hey all.. can some give me the best smiter weapon?
head-?
armor-?
hands-?
boots-?
belt-?
2x rings-?
ammy-?
shield - vortex

thanks in advance

[Bartender]

Wow...
CoA-head
CoH-armor
Draculs-hands
Goreriders-boots
Verdungos-belt
1 raven frost 1 bul kathos-rings
1 Mara's-ammy
Exile Vortex-sheild.

[FrogMan]

Cheapest is

Guilammes umed
Guardian Angel umed
2 raven
T Gods
Gores
Dracs
Highlords
heavens light

and it can still solo ubers.

[Bartender]

And add grief to mine and mine would be the rich-ass's equipment.

[grimm669]

If you play UsWest Nl get a Raven spiral instead of a Bk

[KoR_Muffin]

not fortitude for armor?

[L4E]

no it doesnt increase dmg

[Bloodangel26]

this is what i recommend, because its what i use....very good, and not quite as expensive as it could be

ammy: 2-2 seraph
helm: um'd guiliame
armor: coh
weapon: pb grief
shield: upped um'd hoz
glove: dracs
belt: tgods
rings: raven frost and dwarf star
boots: gores

Additional Comment:
that stupid face is supposed to say g l o v e s:

[bertskarzi196]

if your using Eexile why would u waste your gloves on dracs, use rends for the CB, i thought ppl would know that!

[Bloodangel26]

maybe because i really like the lifetap and i dont need anymore cb since i kill ubers AND preubers in under 5 mins? how many uber runs have you done? unless its more than like 30, plz dont tell me how to make an uber smiter

oh yea...i also use dracs for the strngth, i glitch...i only have like 30 base strength...so i need the dracs

[LateNiteTip]

smartass2 smartass2 smartass2 smartass2 Exile, 2 Ber Cta, Dracs/Rends, grief phase, maras, bk/raven's, eth treks dungo's. <--- best possible setup, especially if Exile is vortex or higher shield, and perf phase ias/dmg greif @@ god i got this setup and it does dmg.smartass2 smartass2 smartass2

[Bloodangel26]

tgods is better if you are fighting ubers...way more lite damaging things than phys

[ArcaneSupremacy]

Refer to my guide (link in my sig) for PvP equipment.

no it doesnt increase dmg

Yes, it does.

tgods is better if you are fighting ubers...way more lite damaging things than phys

Ubers' melee attacks hit just as hard as their magical attacks. Also, Tgod's +max resist and absorb does close to nothing unless you can get to 85 lightning resist with Meph's conviction on. You'll need both resistances and DR.

[Bloodangel26]

when fighting ubers i feel i get hurt more by the minions that attack with ele damage than the actual ubers, especially when mephs convict is on....let me go find something off arreat summit that will prove that part about absorb not helping wrong....

Additional Comment:
ahh here it is

How do items of Absorption work?
After Straight Magical Damage Reduce and Resistances modified the damage done Absorb first heals a player/hireling, then reduces the damage done. Since it heals first, the double reduction rule only counts when a player or hireling is not at full life. A drawback is that if one would end up with a negative amount of life after resistances, you will die before Absorb reduces the damage done.
Absorb is perfect for swarms of Imps or Fallen Shaman, but be careful with Fire Enchanted bosses which may deal enough damage to kill you outright. Below are a few numeric examples where 1000 fire damage is taken. Note that the amount of damage reduced is twice the Absorb% times the damage because half is to nullify the damage taken, and the other half is the healing absorption provides. Note: there is a 40% cap on absorption.
Examples
Direct absorb was not tallied in the examples below, it is usually listed on items like this: "+x Fire Absorb" x being an integer. The Direct Absorb would be calculated after the resistance and percentage absorb in these next cases. (note: Heal amount of 0 = full health upon damage taken or no absorb is present) full damage / %resistance / %Absorb / heal amount / damage taken1000 0% 0% 0 10001000 95% 0% 0 501000 90% 0% 0 1001000 85% 0% 0 1501000 80% 0% 0 2001000 75% 0% 0 2501000 70% 0% 0 300____1000 0% 0% 0 10001000 0% 40% 400 2001000 0% 35% 350 3001000 0% 30% 300 4001000 0% 25% 250 5001000 0% 20% 200 6001000 0% 15% 150 700____1000 0% 0% 0 10001000 95% 40% 20 10 1000 90% 35% 35 301000 85% 30% 45 60 1000 80% 25% 50 100 1000 75% 20% 50 150 1000 70% 15% 45 210

Additional Comment:
ok that table didnt paste over so well..but basically, absorb actually heals you when you get hit by the element. so if you have less resistance, you take more damage, and a higher amount of it heals you since it is a %.

[ArcaneSupremacy]

That didn't prove anything. My point was that resistances are far more important than absorb since damage reduction due to resistances is calculated before absorption.

The absorb on Tgod's is not percentage.

[Bloodangel26]

regardless...my point remains that the elemental minions damage me more than the bosses. also tgods helps me out a bit with glitching

[ArcaneSupremacy]

I notice that every once in a while when I'm smiting any of the 3 Ubers, I suddenly take an unusually large chunk of damage. I know for sure that it can't be from the minions, since I've tried standing in a crowd of at least a dozen of them and only got scratches. That's probably just because my resistances are all above 65 with Meph's conviction. If your resists are in the negatives, then it's not surprising. You should probably focus more on getting more resists instead of absorb. Credendum seems decent if you need the stat bonuses.

[Bloodangel26]

actually mine are also all about 60 with convict and salv on...the only time i ever take a chunk of damage is if i forget to put salv on fighting meph

[ArcaneSupremacy]

actually mine are also all about 60 with convict and salv on...the only time i ever take a chunk of damage is if i forget to put salv on fighting meph

Hmm...I use fanaticism. Then again, I have zero crushing blow in my setup. I suppose I could switch out my Kira's for Guillaume's, but I don't want to spend that point in salvation. Still, I can't really complain about killing speed. I usually go head-on with the 3 Ubers and finish up in under 2 minutes. With some crushing blow, it should be quicker.

By "chunk", I meant damage in the low hundreds. I suppose it could just be all 3 Ubers and their minions landing hits on me at the exact same time (right rolleyes: ). It's sometimes hard to notice since life tap gets it back almost instantly.

[Bloodangel26]

dont want to spend a point in salv? what lvl are you? i baaled till 80 to finish up all the points i need for my set up (maxed fanat, smite, hs, and defiance) and i have lvled 5 times just on ubers....i've been having trouble deciding where else to put the points! i put like 3 into salv just because i dont have anything better to put them in...i dont need to do the passive bonus to max resists because my max is already 80s and 85s