As many vt guides out there, this one is no better than any other. This built is really one of teh hardest to make in d2 because ur skill points/stats depend on equipment. Here's my built:

20 fanat
20 holy shield
4 conviction
10 foh
10 holy shock
15 smite
1 charge... no more, its only to get closer faster. Final. Its not a charger, and skill points are way too precious in this built.

something like that. morotsjos once said to me that while using grief, it could be possible to save some point of smite damage into more foh damage. When using Astreons (which was really nice b4 Grief), fanat points were really important, but now grief's damage is just too much... really. My built is a little more towards smite, so now with grief I kill sorc with often 1 charge / 1-2 smite. Barbs arent a problem because most barbs don't consider the smiter as a caster (which they should). Barbs using ss don't have enuff damage to outcome smite with grief. The only dangerous ones are 2h wwers and dual wielding botd/beast or grief/beast. These can really mess up a smiter, but I rarely see this kind duel my smiter.

Concerning conviction, why can't we put more points in it to get higher foh damage? The objective is to force lite resistance stackin, so I suppose higher convition will force more stacking, no? Explain me this, I'm confused...

As for gear, I use GA. Bm? I dont really care, mods are damn nice. I never considered elite enigma, but i think it can give something like 300-400 more life cause of the str points economy. vs barbs and windies I use pul Shaft + dungos + coa, which tops 50% dam reduce.

Cham-Um coa «---- my choice. Second comes ber/um shako
Uped Ga
Grief Zerker 40 ias
Bloodfists
Eth treks / waterwalks vs fire dam
Dungos / t gods
2 bks / 1 dwarf / 1 wisp / ravens...
Uped, umed Hoz... if u dont have resists problems you can put anything else other than um... dunno what, u tell me
Maras / Highlords vs lite dam
cta / spirit on switch

And concerning weapon, on ladder, best thing is 40ias Grief Zerker + bloodfists. Teh range 3 is really awesome. No barb can try to outrange you with a range 3 weapon, so they are pretty much toasted. Also, not alot of other smiters use range 3 weapons so in smiter vs smiter you will most likely win. Also I heard that with a higher range weapon ur charge as more sucess of landing... dunno why.

This post was edited by ratzel on Mar 30 2005 08:53am

nice guide, i'd like to v/t spar with you once HunterThompson gets up to a decent level. . your dueling analysis is quite well done. PM me and ill catch you online sometime:P

haha u say some funny things in here:P
great guide btw

there that v/ts can use. Redeemers, Dooms, I've even seen +3 foh caddys made into beasts (I wouldnt recommend that). Toy around with stuff untill you get a feel for what you like. And Deadly Strike does NOT work with smite. I wasted 5 Lo runes on that because I'm a moron. Botds arent really that great, the only things that help are the +stats and the ias (well..the pretty poison nova too). I've seen a 4xBer 2xUm zerker, a griz caddy loaded with Ums, one with Bers. Crushing Blow and Open Wounds are your two most imporatant factor when picking a smiting weapon. For FOH, its +skills (duh). I would advise against facets, however, because that spot can be holding a valuable rune with ias, resist, cb, ow, or even FHR

never put more than 1 pt in conviction!

easily absorbable

im gonna make one now i like the whole griffons is for fucks thing stopped me from making a bad mistake

good guide uncle

rematch ^^