Why do I always see open wounds being considered as "useful" or "good" when it comes to ubers and people factoring in OW to every build but then there's never someone bringing up the OG big boy level 13 runewords with 50%/100% ow chance......

For real though, malice has 100% chance to cause open wounds. Just go for crushing blow and do damage, slap the boss with malice once every 10 seconds, and go back to smashing the boss with your normal gear........

Malice's 100% open wounds is on-par with life tap. You don't fight uber w/o lifetap, and not without open wounds. Equip item, slap debuff on them, then fight.

Why is every build afraid to have a malice in the inventory to simply shift click, attack, shift click back.

I think malice might work but the damage it does is low compared to other gear options. The OW from dracs or gores is enough to stop the life regeneration.

because open wound on dracs is enough and in the time you are switching weapons you can hit several times with a weapon which deals a couple of thousands of damage even without cb instead of poking with a zero damage stick

In this case I was refering to smiters, so damage would barely be affected.

10% on gore's, it's brutally low. Also this is assuming a player isn't using Dracs and is relying on a lifetap wand. Drac's can be very difficult to procure at the start of a ladder restart. If gear pricing isn't a factor I've seen all 6 ubers done in 45 seconds so no point in having a discussion about it.

Griefs damage affects smite

If you have a grief, you shouldn't be in this discussion. You can afford all the top-end gear and ubers is just a cake-walk for you.

You have to rely on gores even if only %10 ow they still work enough to get the job done. If you want best budget for ubers try this build.

https://youtu.be/U_c_QDvXQhE?si=8uSFHzVTp2VB5Ee5

A level 24 pal completed Uber tristam

lvl 24?!? this i gotta see.....

Lvl 5 paladin can do ubers too