05-09-2003, 08:40 PM
I planned out a smite character, but I never got around to finishing him. I think I got a little tired of Diablo in general when he was about 30th level. I'll tell you my plan, but I never actually tested it.
skills:
20 smite
20 concentration
20 holy shield
20 hammers
I know that fanat will give better damage then concentration, but concentration works with hammers. The hammers are for phys immunes and for a little bit of crowd control. I was worried that the hammers wouldn't do enough damage to really kill things in hell, but as I said I never tested to find out. Maybe someone here has made a similar build, and can let us know.
Items:
I used the chipped gem + sword cube formula to make a 3 socket phase blade of quickness. It only took 2 tries bofore I got it. :) I planned on putting shael runes in the sockets. This weapon will give you max smite speed. (actually I think it's more IAS then you need.)
For the all important shield, I decided to use a sacred targe. This is the lowest elite paladin shield. I think that this shield is the best because it has the best blocking percentage, the lowest reqs, and the same average smite damage as all of the rest of the elite paladin shields. One of my other characters found a 4 socket sacred targe with +42 resist all on it. I planned on putting diamonds in all of the sockets for a total of +118 to all resists. With all that resistance on one item, this leaves you open to use most of your other equipment for other abilities. This shield shouldn't be too expensive to trade for.
I have heard that life tap works with smite, but I have never tried it. I planned on buying/finding a wand with life tap charges and using it in my weapon switch. I would cast this before smiting. Usually there are a lot of charges on a life tap wand. I have found one before with 64 charges, so you wouldn't have to repair it often. Maybe the repairs would cost too much, but I don't know.
For the rest of the equipment you can do whatever you like. It would be nice (as previously mentioned) to use all percentage damage reduction equipment, but not all of us are rich in items. I planned on using some mana regen items, such as a 4 perf skull armor, so that I could throw hammers more often. I *think* that crushing blow works with smite, so I was going to use either goblin toe or gore rider. Having extra mana would be nice, so maybe use frostburns. Some +hp items would also be very nice. Paladins generally don't have enough hp for hell difficulty. Plus to skill items are very useful for this build because all the skills link to give more damage output. If you up all three with a single +1 to skills item, it gives a lot of damage.
For stats:
str: only what is needed to use equipment
dex: enough to have max block
energy: none
vit: all other points
skills:
20 smite
20 concentration
20 holy shield
20 hammers
I know that fanat will give better damage then concentration, but concentration works with hammers. The hammers are for phys immunes and for a little bit of crowd control. I was worried that the hammers wouldn't do enough damage to really kill things in hell, but as I said I never tested to find out. Maybe someone here has made a similar build, and can let us know.
Items:
I used the chipped gem + sword cube formula to make a 3 socket phase blade of quickness. It only took 2 tries bofore I got it. :) I planned on putting shael runes in the sockets. This weapon will give you max smite speed. (actually I think it's more IAS then you need.)
For the all important shield, I decided to use a sacred targe. This is the lowest elite paladin shield. I think that this shield is the best because it has the best blocking percentage, the lowest reqs, and the same average smite damage as all of the rest of the elite paladin shields. One of my other characters found a 4 socket sacred targe with +42 resist all on it. I planned on putting diamonds in all of the sockets for a total of +118 to all resists. With all that resistance on one item, this leaves you open to use most of your other equipment for other abilities. This shield shouldn't be too expensive to trade for.
I have heard that life tap works with smite, but I have never tried it. I planned on buying/finding a wand with life tap charges and using it in my weapon switch. I would cast this before smiting. Usually there are a lot of charges on a life tap wand. I have found one before with 64 charges, so you wouldn't have to repair it often. Maybe the repairs would cost too much, but I don't know.
For the rest of the equipment you can do whatever you like. It would be nice (as previously mentioned) to use all percentage damage reduction equipment, but not all of us are rich in items. I planned on using some mana regen items, such as a 4 perf skull armor, so that I could throw hammers more often. I *think* that crushing blow works with smite, so I was going to use either goblin toe or gore rider. Having extra mana would be nice, so maybe use frostburns. Some +hp items would also be very nice. Paladins generally don't have enough hp for hell difficulty. Plus to skill items are very useful for this build because all the skills link to give more damage output. If you up all three with a single +1 to skills item, it gives a lot of damage.
For stats:
str: only what is needed to use equipment
dex: enough to have max block
energy: none
vit: all other points
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