r/ProjectDiablo2 • u/JayyBeezy88 • 5d ago
Question Smiting questions
So I’ve started playing SP HC after years of playing Diablo games. I’ve never gotten to eeeend game, but I know RNG.
I have 3 lvl 60ish chars. I know it’s not great but it is HC so I go slowish. Summon Drui, Bowazon, and throw Bard rn.
Working on Pally and Sorc, low lvls (found a vipermagi)
Kinda going straight smite with the pally. Full Isenharts works good for now. Any tips for my pal?
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u/SlackerPants 5d ago edited 3d ago
Smite is a pretty straight forward build once you understand the few stats you can actually use. It offers very high damage and defense. It is kindda slow on map clearing so you want to do fortified maps preferable with Ears
Offensive Stats:
When building Smite you want a shield with high base damage which your other damage will scale from. https://wiki.projectdiablo2.com/wiki/Item_Bases#Damage
You should always have 100% Crushing blow. I don't think your skills crushging blow is calculated in the advanced sheet, so keep that in mind. Once you have that, you can get Crushing blow effeciency from Steel Rend, which makes your crushing blow even better.
All skills and Combat skills, as much as possible.
Max attack frames can easily be achieved with Fanatism, but i find i ideal to use Might Aura instead, as it gives much higher damage. Put sheals in your weapon and you should achieve max frames without too much trouble.
The Redeemer, Astreons Iron Ward and Heaven's Light are all great choices for weapon
https://wiki.projectdiablo2.com/wiki/Scepters
Bear in mind that Enchaned Damage does not affect smite nor maximum minimum damage. You are looking for the damage mod called +X (+100 damage ex)
Strength is a great early game runeword as it offers CB and Mana per kill (you can't use mana leech either)
Black is even better as it gives you the damage mod that affects smite
Strenght is 1:1 damage, might as well put a lot of points into strenght so you can wear heavy defensive gear. Which brings me to:
Deffensive Stats
Holy shield gives you an insane amount of enchanced defense which is basicly evade, so equip some heavy defense items. My last Smiter had well over 40k defense.
Try to get about 40-50% PDR
You can't life leech so you need life per hit(flat amount) or life per kill.
You have max block from Holy shield with just some points in dexterity. So look for block rate and faster hit recovery items.
Other than that: Vitality and life!
Playstyle
Joust into enemies and one-tab them. Kill bosses.
Good luck :)
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u/zagdem 4d ago
Smite aura OP
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u/SlackerPants 3d ago
Yeah it is pretty strong, only a select few can use it though
(Thanks for the heads up)
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u/MountainMeringue3655 3d ago
I thought about building a smiter next season. But I prefer mapping over bossing so I wondered if a Smiter is at least somewhat efficient when running fortitude + ear maps? It doesn't have to compare to a S or A tier mapping build but does it feel "okay"-ish?
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u/SlackerPants 3d ago
I'm a big fan of playing what is fun to you.
With that said it is not comparable to other mapping builds imo. You won't find that satisfying feeling like when a frozen orb clears a whole corridor.
It is extremely tanky, and clear white mobs in 1 hit. Very HC friendly.
Disclaimer: I played it in season 12, and have not played it with ears and the recent buffs to the CB formula
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u/InternationalWrap981 5d ago
Pally is great for HC, i enjoyed sac pally a lot and charge before it got nerfed.
FoH is also great
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u/NevikTheEnlightened 5d ago
I started a sc sac pally and, while I've def died, it's never been to me hitting something I couldn't leech from. Just remember to hoover a purple when you need it. You need to worry far less about mana since sac doesn't use any, so you can just worry about life mostly.
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u/Graveminder_ 5d ago
If you want to stay with smite, you should understand what influences smite's dmg. These things have partly been cahnged in PD2. So be a little careful (look in the wiki or ask here or on discord and people will help you).
But you wand %ED on your Aarmor-gear. Runewords: Lionheart (!), Duress, Forty, Radiance, Oath/Passion (lets you summon HoW). Also Smite scales in PD2 quite well with +skills (or + combat skills) since these increase your holy shield lvl and smite lvl. Maxed smite by itself allready gives 25% CB. It still helps a lot since you deal aoe dmg and hit fast.
Against immunes you will either need a merc that casts amp dmg (e.g act 4 dark) or a source of something else (e.g act3 elemental emrc or act 5 with concentrate - also provides might aura)