Guide to the GM PVP Smiter v1.11

Skills:
20 Smite
20 Charge (Some say to Max defiance instead of this. But more defense will only help when vs. ww barbs. Charge is extremely useful when dueling almost any character.)
20 Holy Shield
20 Fanaticism
1 Defiance (Synergy for holy shield, it adds defense)
2 or 4 Resist Lightning (each 2 hard points into a resist skill will increase you maximum resist to that element by 1 point. Plus skill items don’t affect your max resist.)
2 Resist Fire
2 Resist Cold
Place Extra Skills into either a Resist skill or Defiance.

Stat Points:
Strength: Nothing
Dexterity: Just enough to use a Grief Phase Blade while having all gear on.
Vitality: Rest of stats go here
Energy: Nothing

Gear:
The 1st Item is my suggested choice for the best build.
The other items are to be used only in certain situations.
Be sure to keep some of them in your stash.

Weapon Choices:
1st Grief Phase Blade
- With this you reach 6fps smite.
2nd Grief Berserker Axe
- You will need no less than 40ias and then 20 more ias from another item to reach 6fps smite.
- Requires less dex than a Phase Blade.
3rd Eth Death Cleaver Berzerker Axe zod’d
- It is used for Charging.
- You reach about 10k charge attack rating with this and 2x Raven frost rings.
- switch to using highlords when using this so you will have very high chance of deadly strike.
- You will need 20 more ias to reach 6fps smite if you wish to smite people with it.

Shield Choices:
1st Herald of Zakarum Zakarum(up’d) Shield Ber’d
- Use this for Almost all duels.
- Gives 20str, 20vit, Max block (with 136dex which you need to use a Grief Phase Blade) 50resAll, 8dr.
2nd Eth Exile Zakarum Shield with Resist
- Greater average damage than a Vortex Shield.
- Adds loads of defense (useful vs. barbs). But you need more dex to reach Max block(75%).
3rd Eth Exile Vortex Shield with Resist
- Greater Maximum damage than a Zakarum Shield.
- Adds loads of defense. (useful vs. barbs)

Helm Choices:
1st Harlequin Crest Shako Ber’d
- Use this vs. Melee characters.
2nd Harlequin Crest Shako Um’d
- Use this vs. casters.
3rd Crown of Ages Corona 2sockets
- You will need to add a few points into strength to use this.
- If you ber/ber it You will have over 50%dr which is not needed. So I recommend using only 1 Ber.
- You get more of fhr/resists.
4th Crown of Ages Corona 1socket Ber’d
- You will need to add a few points into strength to use this.
- You get more of fhr/resists.

Armor Choices:
1st Enigma Mage Plate
-Use the Skill Teleport to your advantage!
This takes a little bit of practice and skill, but once you master teleporting onto your enemy and smiting them, you will see why it’s the best.
It makes your opponent panic and you will almost always get the first hit.
2nd Fortitude Dusk Shroud
- Adds to your smite damage. >>Facts About the skill Smite<<
( 3 x [base shield smite damage + holy shield smite bonus + damage from items “Damage +XX”] ) devided by 6 (pvp physical damage reduction)
- Does not have teleport.
- Does not have Damage Reduced.
- You will need to add more points into strength to use your gear.
3rd Chains of Honor Dusk Shroud
- Use this only vs. casters
- Adds 65 resist all

Boot Choices:
1st Waterwalks Sharkskin Boots
- Adds 50-65 Life.
- Adds 15 Dex.
2nd Gore Rider War Boots
- Adds 15% chance of Crushing blow.
3rd Duped Boots of Some kind
- You Shouldn't use duped items! Perming every game is a pain in the butt.
- They usually add a lot of resist and a lot of str/dex.

Glove Choices:
1st Dracul’s Grast Vampirebone Gloves
- Has 5% chance to cast Life Tap. Which can be critical in some duels.
- Adds 10-15 Strength.
2nd Bloodfist Heavy Gloves
- Adds 10ias (helps when using a Grief Berserker Axe that is not 40ias)
- Adds 40 Life.
- Adds 30 fhr.
- Does not have Strength or Life tap.

Belt:
1st Verdungo’s Hearty Cord Mithril Coil
- Has 10-15%dr. Try to get 15%.
- Adds 30-40 Vitality.

Rings:
1st Raven Frost + Bul-Kathos’
- Cannot Be Frozen.
- Adds Dex so you can use a Grief Phase Blade more easily.
- Adds ~40 Life and 1 to all skills.

Amulet Choices:
1st Mara's
- 2all skills along with resistance, and it adds to Battle Orders.
2nd Highlords Wraith
- Adds 20ias so that you can reach 6fps smite with a Grief Berserker Axe.

Switch:
Call To Arms Flail/Crystal Sword
- Try to get +6 Battle Orders
Spirit Paladin Shield
- Adds +2 skills so you will have higher Battle Orders.

Charms:
34x +20 Life Small Charms (try to get ones with resist)
3x 5fhr/resist Small Charms
Annihilus Small Charm
Paladin Torch

With This Build (near perfect/high items) you will have:
~ 4,500 Life
~ 49% Damage Reduced
~ 2,400-8,000 Calculated Smite Damage (w/o 1/6th pvp physical damage reduction)
- 6 Frames Per Second Smite Speed
- 6 Frames Per Second Hit Recovery
~ Max Fire/Light/Cold Resist (if you have 20life/res sc’s)

>>Facts About the skill Smite<<



Making the smiter BM:

Before using any of this gear, Use a Treachery Armor or Last Wish Weapon to Fade.

here is what you should Use verses...

Light Sorc, Farcast/cs zon, Trap Assassin, FoH Paladins:
- Um'd Kira's
- Tgods Belt
- Wisp Ring
- Wisp Ring
- Eth Death Cleaver
- Highlords Amulet

Cold Sorc:
- Um'd Kira's
- Raven Frost Ring
- Raven Frost Ring
- Snowclash Belt
- Eth Death Cleaver
- Eth Exile

Fire Sorc, Fissure Driud:
- Um'd Kira's
- Hotspur Boots
- Dwarf Star Ring
- Dwarf Star Ring
- Rising Sun Amulet

Auradins:
- Um'd Kira's
- Hotspurs boots
- tgods belt
- dward star ring
- raven frost ring

Whirlwind/Trap Assassin:
- Um'd Kiras
- Wisp Ring
- Tgods Belt
- Eth Exile

This post was edited by mtgtopdeck on Sep 29 2006 05:12pm

Good job Scott, very pretty guide.

For ring #2 I suggest a Stat/life/resist rare ring.

Eth Exile is a must vs. WW Barbs, for the life tap + defence boost

nvm.

This post was edited by Tylenol on Sep 29 2006 07:37pm

i agree with charge i have been doing this for ages...

very good 1 thing though... with a berserk axe... u need a total of 50 ias not 60

Rather than write a guide you just posted a list of everything that could potentially be useful on a smiter with no setups or structure other than bm . No strats? Why do you need 3x fhr small charms? How do you only hit 4.5k life?

lol i bet you read 6 words from my guide.

i stated which item i thought was the BEST choice, followed by the second best and so on.
15fhr is a breakpoint. 6fps
"only hit 4.5k life?" ONLY?...
wtf are strats???
i added the bm part at the bottom because once in a while, people get sick of gm and want to go bm.. so i made a seperate portion for it.


and Mick, i thought it was 20 but i guess i was wrong, i never use a grief zerk anyways

No. No matter how many pub smiter guides make it on this forum, I read it all.

It's unnecessary to do so. Just post what you used.
Likewise unnecessary... that's almost 100 life you lose for that
Yes, only.... 4.5k life is low for a smiter
Strategies.... Surely you don't just namelock and run? You'll die to any dueler with a clue
Merely posting "MASS SORB ELEMENTAL USERS" is hardly a bm guide. No one even uses sorcs in bm duels.

And yes, mick is right about the zerk

i will take the fhr into consideration
On uswest, almost all smiters i have dueled have around 3k life. west is much different than many other places. sorry.
and clearly you didnt read all of it, or you would have noticed:
Strats:
"Use the Skill Teleport to your advantage!
This takes a little bit of practice and skill, but once you master teleporting onto your enemy and smiting them, you will see why it’s the best.
It makes your opponent panic and you will almost always get the first hit."
I stated why i placed the bm shit at the bottom, i could care less if you think its needed, or not needed.

Wut about Guillaume's Face helm.. it adds to cb and other stuff and if u add a ed jewl or ias jewl it's even better.