I need detailed refreshers

[Nightwind]

One trick ponies, other than Hammerdins, are a thing of the past, Singing Barbarians are more common, and Hurricane Druids seem to be quite popular these days.

So a high restances vengances baced paladin is a bad idea?

Would it make better sence to invest into smite?

Or it it completely back to the days of passive aura's that mearly help those who do the work to stay alive with the occasional holy bolt booster?

I did read all the offical documentation... gibberish as usual. And I'm working my way through the summet, though not expecting any of it to be true mind you.

If I wanted a minimaly invasive mod to make some of the MP options into sp ones to experiment with, is there a recomendation. Or is the best recomendation as always to simply dive into a ladder game and find out the hard way?