03-27-2007, 03:19 PM
Using gorerider on this smiter is definately a plus, unless you have accesses to those massively duped boots which also includes a tremendous boost of resist on him. You should get rid of highlord's wrath and replaces it with mara's kaleidoscope. First of all, if you are using Grief Phase Blade, you'd have enough IAS by the sword and runeword itself to hit a certain desirable breakpoint of smite. Second, deadly strike doesn't affect smite (I believe so). So not much but an 1 skill boost from highlord's wrath. I strongly recommand mara's kaleidoscope due to its 20-30 resist boost, which helps a lot. If your resists have not reached the gold text state while near mephisto's conviction aura, what's the point of those 15% to maximum resist attribute bonus? You should use chains of honor, but I guess guardian angel works too with its increase block rate bonuses. You don't really need last wish if you are only using it for the extra crushing blow and might aura. If you need fade, leave a treachery armor in stash, you should benefit almost the same. Your second ring, anything that adds life for that matter works. You might want to use wisp though mephisto's lightning attacks are somewhat underestimated by most people, just a consideration. As for the belt, I'd use the first one. Although its only missing two strength from the second belt, it provides nice a nice resist boost to light and cold, which mephisto would mostly use. I don't see much monster uses fire other than those skeleton magi that throws fireballs. When your close to uber diablo, he does not use fire much, and life tap can regain what you've lost quite efficiently. Sorry for typing up such a huge chunk of text, but my fingers just kept typing. If I provided any inaccurate information, please say so.