Relatively new to PvP. Haven't done it in 20 years and starting to build a smiter with the gear I have around. Apologies ahead of time if any of the setup seems BM, because I am literally building this char with gear from my Tesladin and Pvm Smiter.

Any feedback is greatly appreciated.

Current setup:

Helm: 141 shako with ber. Dream backup

Armor: AP enigma. Got AP fort as backup, and upped Shaftstop as backup.

Shield: upped hoz with ber. Dream backup. Aiming for Phoenix now

Belt: 32/15 dungos

Rings: 250/20 raven, 10fcr 18str, 14dex, all res ring. Also have dwarf star and wisp as backups

Ammy: 30 maras with highlords backup

Boots: eth sandtreks, with marrow walks and aldurs backups

Gloves: Drac's, bloodfist, crafted 20ias 10cb +life, +replenish gloves

Weapon: 40/393 PB grief. I can't seem to roll a decent ias for zerker.

Got an inventory of pcombs, 40 lifers and 20lifers. I need to get 20/x and +lifer pcombs, but for now I'm sitting at 2.3k Smite and 4k health after self BO.

Skills: maxed smite, maxed holy shield, maxed fanaticism, maxed lightning res. 1 pt into salvation, 1 pt into vigor. Rest of the pts into defense aura.

I wasn't sure if I should be putting 1 pt into conviction, or be putting more pts into charge. Been reading some guides that recommend 1 pt into charge because tele smiting is the meta? If that's the case, should I be using Trangs and Arachs?

And I see a lot of guides use terms like locking, telestomping, etc. Is there a comprehensive guide to how to performing those on console?

coa ber + -15 req % ed fhr dex jewel
enigma dusk
2 pala 20 fcr amu
wisp (oak+gm abs)
raven 20-250
dungo
waterwalk
trang gloves
spirit ST 35 fcr 45@
grief pb
9 pc sks 40+ life
10x 19-5+ sc's

i would aim for v/t or even t/v if it's d2r and first max foh and holy shock, rest into smite/fana holy shield last

remember to use holy freeze etc can put 1 point in convi or even more if u wanna aim for heavy t/v setup

Thank you. Um stupid question but what is v/t and t/v?

Also the ST spirit, that would be my main smiting shield?

v/t and t/v are a hybrid between foh and smite paladin, v/t is more focused on smite and uses foh as a secondary, t/v is more focused on foh and uses smite as secondary, since foh got a massive buff in d2r i think it's rly good to focus more heavily on foh.

v = vindicator (smite pala)
t = templar (foh pala)

as for the spirit, yes. spirit is simply the best shield in the game for pretty much any char, same goes for v/t. reaching 75 fcr helps you catch your opponents more easily with teleport, also increases ur foh speed and therefore foh dmg.

the oak from wisp gives some more life and functions as a meat shield (can absorb a hammer or bone spirit for example)

Got it. Thank you

np gl with ur pala, it's a really strong char atm

Why you lying to that man

You are talking about d2r right because you mentioned console?

Yessir

Do you want a character based on your stuff you have or do you want to know what you need.