Great guide.
Any chance you could do a simple format?
Say which is actually the best geared? Without all the graphs and such.

o_O

Its listed on the first page post, scroll down, its as clear as day. The only thing not listed is the wep since he tested all the top tier wep options. Its clear from reading the posts that grief is the best followed closely by Astrons


Ewya went thru all that work graphing and meticulously documented everything here and you want someone to hold your hand. Dood, put a modicum of effort into it. It's RIGHT THERE.

Its a great guide because of the content and info posted. If he just skipped to the end without mathamatically showing the facts and simply listed the items and skills, it would be like every cookie cutter smiter guide already posted. We would then have a post every other day about some nab asking and suggestion that LASTWISH IZ BESTUS EVA when in fact its not.

Bump to the top and +1 @sticky

This post was edited by Master_Zappy on Jun 7 2010 03:20pm

Bump

Nice Work

awesome guide

Wow Why not just do give the ppl here a more simplified read
after all those calculations i am still not quite sure which set up works best
LOL

just post a video or draw a simple table
the most safest fastest gear set up

period

When I wrote this back in April last year, many players strenuously opposed the use of Grief over Last Wish, suggesting that the modifiers on LW alone would make it outshine any other weapon.
The purpose of this guide is to deliver facts while leaving some choices to the reader.

Some of you still work with the flawed concept that a guide should use one particular setup and be done with it. No reasoning, just the usual ''use only this and only that'' garbage.

Anyway, here is one setup among several that work well:

I / II
Grief PB / Azurewrath
HoZ (Perfect Diamond) / HoZ (Perfect Diamond)

Guillaume's Face (+15% IAS Jewel)
Highlord's Wrath
Duress DS or AP (or any other Elite lightweight)
Dracul's Grasp
Raven Frost (x2)
Verdungo's Hearty Cord
Gore Rider

Although a smiter is arguably nothing advanced at this stage, a list of ITAMZ and SKILLZ is dull and not inspiring at any rate. I can literally feel the boredom as you read the above. SO BORING!
''Character Skills and Equipment'' is a fraction of this guide because the focus is to explain what matters against the Übers and examine the effects of choosing one setup over another.

TL;DR is just walking the path of the masses.
Reading from A to Z makes you cool.

You want to be cool, right?

maybe this was talked about already,

but tgods and gores aren't good choices, really.

strings does a better job, and even arach could be viable.
gtoes > gores, 10% extra cb > 10% ow, especially for those who choose lionheart over duress (both are amazing armors, btw), or even forti.

all in all: good job.

This post was edited by Synonym on Jun 22 2010 03:52am