Thanks a lot, this guide really helped me improve my smiter.

by the way for all those who dont know what defience does it adds more defense to your character its a senergy for holy shield which makes you have more defense... from holy shield... u dont got to use the skill its self its passive for holy shield so like its like 15% more defense added each lvl for holy shield lets say you have like 23k defense if you add points into defience and max it u will have like 32k defense depending on what ur wearing so 9-10k more defense never hurt anybody lol but i think its worth it but v/t is a good way to go to for pvp but straight smiter is best for ubers...

i noticed on the skills section..you can fit in another max. i'd max charge or defiance last. then put the remainder into whichever you didn't. that's how mine is though. if you max charge too, then you'll have a high dmg charge and you'll be able to take out certain characters with charge that you won't be able to with smite. if you max defiance, then you'll have really high defense, which i noticed is mroe efficient throughout the 4 smiters i've had.

just thoguht i'd put that in.

props to it though, thats how my build is. i'd stick with 9 pcombs and 20life/5fhr sc's and nothing else. the damage helps alot.

i just hoped this would clear up the armor part

fort 300ed 30res 150life max
coh 2skill 65res 8dr 20str
nigma 2skill 74str 5%life tele 8dr 45frw
btal 2skill 25dr 40res 25frw 1soc

if u asked me to rate these this would be the order
nigma>btal>coh>fort

forts 300% ed does give more dmg than the 2skill but by such a small number that its not worth it and this is after grief is calculated
by using fort u lose 2skill for bo which is an extra 120+life on a good smiter and the 8 dr u lost cant be made up anywhere else since
bered shako 18dr, ber hoz 8dr , dungo 15dr u need the 8dr from armor to get 49%dr

some people might argue btal > nigma but i tried the 2 and no matter wat i added to btal setup the nigma setup gave more life,tele,frw

nigma will also give about 200more life than cohs 65res but the main reason for nigma is tele, tele get u a huge advantage in pvp even with 0 fcr u cannot always rely on charge(ex. bone prison,ibs,ibh)

i have made 3smiters and 3vt and i have tried many combinations with these armors, u can call me a noob for remaking one character so many times but smiters,vts are the onli one i find worth investing my time in

bk = ll = shit
ll does not work on smite

You use bk for the life not for ll.

You need to add 1 point into hold freeze for s vs s duels. If your PvM then dont if you are its a must.

-John

just some stuff i need2/can say:
-d2 shows wrong DMG (the same with Hammerdins but they got shown double the DMG they really do - 16K = real 8K)
-uppedZaka-HoZ does have 46-46 damage -> very stable -> vortex makes 2-82 -.-
-ed works on every item, but NOT on Weapon
-smiting skill does ignore Targets defense anyway -> thats why AR is useless
-Deathstrike does not work
-leeching does not work
-smiting does not make any elemental/magic DMG - no matter if weapon or other Items gives any extraDMG
-how to calculate DMG:
shieldDMG+DMG given by HolyShield x [(smiteED+itemED+aurasED)/100]

-my smiter's DMG: ~14,4K (griefPB400,upgZaka40ed-15reqsocked,GuillaumesFace40ed-15reqsocked,FortiAP,Draculs,raven+bk,gores,BB,mara,anni,torch,9pcs ,bo - MightMerc:pridelvl20,ethAndys,ethArkains)

sure i could make even more DMG with coa+3pc amu but it aint worth the lost Stats in Vita/Dex or the lost Resis. With this build i change to my Astreon4BER'ed and swift through Ubers...thats the Fate of all Smiters i think: Clone&Ubers

This post was edited by uNsKiLL3D on Apr 26 2006 11:15am

@it:
-how to calculate DMG:
(shieldDMG + DMG from Items that give[+dmg] like astreon/grief + DMG given by HolyShield) x [(smiteED+itemED+aurasED)/100]

->46+400+(145 to 148) = 491-494 baseDMG
->itemED380+fanaED560+smiteED630+MercPrideAura345+MercMightAura270 = 2185%ED
143xx-144xx DMG

http://diablo2.ingame.de/tips/calcs/dmgcalc/dmgcalc.php?&lang=eng&type=shie&weapon=pae&dmgtype=dmgsmite&weaponabsed=400&smiteweapon=swor&equipmin=145&equipmax=148&equippct=1915&str=141&dex=136&merclvl=95&mercskills=4 <- this Calc does add mightaura by himself dependent on MercLVL

This post was edited by uNsKiLL3D on Apr 26 2006 11:38am

well, these people....are interesting... i dont think he was basing this on a dueler... i think he was talking about a Uber Smiter, in which case this build works, imo its not the BEST build out there.. but it's definately not the worst. IMO i think putting rest of skills into defiance=good cuz any extra defense is good... You have so many extra skills after it, it doesnt matter. i basically used this build, just modified a few things, and my smiter kills ubers perfectly fine.


its a good guide.

you guys....are idiots.. in my opinion.

n1