The 1pt smiter guide to Uber Tristram v 1.0.
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If you're just doing PvM, it's not really necessary to up you HoZ. Since you're a 1 pt smiter that extra damage doesn't do you a lot of good, and the str req. will leave you few options as far as gear goes if you want to try different configurations. As far as the higher defense - well if you're set up with the recommended damage setup your defense should be > 20k, so a couple hundred on the shield isn't going to make a whopping difference, so it's a trade off if you go with the upped-HoZ.
ProfessionalBerg
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Damage added by upping the HoZ is miniscule, and will do you no good. My gear, for example, uses HoZ as a means to equip higher-demanding items, like Guillaume's and Fort AP. It provides +20 strength, after all. I hate strength glitching (the bad way), and uping the HoZ would require you to do so, unless you invest heavily in Strength, at which point you sacrifice your life. Not worth it.
I did my first organ and UT runs with my smiter and a friend with his smiter today and it was easy as pie!
My smiter is lvl 90 and his is lvl 81. The good thing about having two pallys is having two auras. I let him keep his fanat on and I was switching all the time between defiance, cleansing and redemption.
Lilith: My friend died, but I smote(?) her sorry azz in about 40 seconds.
Izzy: The worst part about Izzy is getting there, so my friend brought his tp-ing h-din. He dropped in about 30 seconds.
Duriel: The easiest of the three, he's near the wp and doesn't have any goofy elemental/poison attacks.
The funny thing was when we opened UT and I was busy switching my forti for treachery and prebuffing he already killed Meph. Yeah, that's one way to deal with him, just storm the front.
After Meph he was doing Baal and I did Diablo. I think I used a potion maybe once or twice.
Thanks to this good thread I can UT very, very, very easily. I was really surprised how easy UT was with a smiter using the 'gear for the rich dmg' setup.
My smiter is lvl 90 and his is lvl 81. The good thing about having two pallys is having two auras. I let him keep his fanat on and I was switching all the time between defiance, cleansing and redemption.
Lilith: My friend died, but I smote(?) her sorry azz in about 40 seconds.
Izzy: The worst part about Izzy is getting there, so my friend brought his tp-ing h-din. He dropped in about 30 seconds.
Duriel: The easiest of the three, he's near the wp and doesn't have any goofy elemental/poison attacks.
The funny thing was when we opened UT and I was busy switching my forti for treachery and prebuffing he already killed Meph. Yeah, that's one way to deal with him, just storm the front.
After Meph he was doing Baal and I did Diablo. I think I used a potion maybe once or twice.
Thanks to this good thread I can UT very, very, very easily. I was really surprised how easy UT was with a smiter using the 'gear for the rich dmg' setup.
So I followed this guide and im just lvling my paladin to 85 so i can use azurewrath and I seem to have alot of skill points left.
I did 20fant , 20 zeal, 20 sac, 20 shield and by lvl 90 i will still have 14 points left over. Where do you guys put those points and why? I am thinking about putting them in smite to make killing bosses go faster or would I be able to kill physical immunes if I put 14 points into convition?
Thanks
I did 20fant , 20 zeal, 20 sac, 20 shield and by lvl 90 i will still have 14 points left over. Where do you guys put those points and why? I am thinking about putting them in smite to make killing bosses go faster or would I be able to kill physical immunes if I put 14 points into convition?
Thanks
ProfessionalBerg
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Conviction does not break physical immunities.
I suggest you grab a few useful defensive auras, like Vigor, if you already didn't. I pump Defiance on my paladin right now, for boost to Holy Shield defense.
I suggest you grab a few useful defensive auras, like Vigor, if you already didn't. I pump Defiance on my paladin right now, for boost to Holy Shield defense.
Well i just did my first uber's / mini uber's with my 1pt smiter today he just turned level 81. Have to say it was alot easier then i thought, in most of the place's it was getting to the boses that i died.
I died twice overall, both on the way to mini ubers.
I started of at duriel took <20 secs after i stepped through the portal.
Next was izzy, i started making my way through untill halfway through there was a group of Oblivion Knights i took most of them down but the last one Im'd me. I decided it would be better to get someone to tele, my friend came with his sorc and did it, took 20~secs after i realised i was still zealing
)
Lillith was a bit harder, mostly due to on my way there i had to whack everything to stop myself from dying. Got crowded by some fanatical uniques and a pack of archers and died. save'd and exited came back in and pre-buffed with fade just outside of town, cleared the whole place and got to lillith. she was easy because there was no-one with her and she came to the door to greet me. bout 20~ secs again.
I decided i'd go right for the uber's next. i went used a cta mostly to get my HS up a bit and the extra 700~ life, even though it only lasted about one minute. First of i tried to drag meph out, didn't work he got stuck in a house. So i went in a beat him up whilst baal and diablo looked on xD.
i put on salvation, i had 50/75/50/75 without it, didnt check what it was with conviction on me. He was the quickest of all of them, i didn't even need to bother potting at all with him. I had a lot more time dealing with the flocking pit lord's, after zealing them from the doorway baal was right in front of me, Forgot to switch back to smite but it meant i got rid of another 5 or 6 pit lords around me took about 40~ secs overall. at this time diablo had been throwing his firestorm at me and his armagedden was continually falling on me, took about 35~ secs. cleared the middle of 3 pit lord's. Picked everything up and went back to town to say how happy i was too my /f l's. It wasn't untill someone asked me what they dropped i checked. This was probably the single happiest moment of my playing career it was a 17/20 pally torch
anyway. I used
Guilly's 15 ias 6 min damage j00l
grief PB
Non up'd Hoz w/ Pdiamond
Duress in a curaiss
Thundergods
Draculs
Gores
Metalgrid
ravenfrost
dwarfstar
On switch i had a life tap wand with a random shield from charsi, for block if i needed it. - i didn't
Prebuffed with a treachery and somewhat with a low CTA
So thanks for the great guide worked great!
I died twice overall, both on the way to mini ubers.
I started of at duriel took <20 secs after i stepped through the portal.
Next was izzy, i started making my way through untill halfway through there was a group of Oblivion Knights i took most of them down but the last one Im'd me. I decided it would be better to get someone to tele, my friend came with his sorc and did it, took 20~secs after i realised i was still zealing
)Lillith was a bit harder, mostly due to on my way there i had to whack everything to stop myself from dying. Got crowded by some fanatical uniques and a pack of archers and died. save'd and exited came back in and pre-buffed with fade just outside of town, cleared the whole place and got to lillith. she was easy because there was no-one with her and she came to the door to greet me. bout 20~ secs again.
I decided i'd go right for the uber's next. i went used a cta mostly to get my HS up a bit and the extra 700~ life, even though it only lasted about one minute. First of i tried to drag meph out, didn't work he got stuck in a house. So i went in a beat him up whilst baal and diablo looked on xD.
i put on salvation, i had 50/75/50/75 without it, didnt check what it was with conviction on me. He was the quickest of all of them, i didn't even need to bother potting at all with him. I had a lot more time dealing with the flocking pit lord's, after zealing them from the doorway baal was right in front of me, Forgot to switch back to smite but it meant i got rid of another 5 or 6 pit lords around me took about 40~ secs overall. at this time diablo had been throwing his firestorm at me and his armagedden was continually falling on me, took about 35~ secs. cleared the middle of 3 pit lord's. Picked everything up and went back to town to say how happy i was too my /f l's. It wasn't untill someone asked me what they dropped i checked. This was probably the single happiest moment of my playing career it was a 17/20 pally torch
anyway. I used
Guilly's 15 ias 6 min damage j00l
grief PB
Non up'd Hoz w/ Pdiamond
Duress in a curaiss
Thundergods
Draculs
Gores
Metalgrid
ravenfrost
dwarfstar
On switch i had a life tap wand with a random shield from charsi, for block if i needed it. - i didn't
Prebuffed with a treachery and somewhat with a low CTA
So thanks for the great guide worked great!
Michael Nuggets
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Last wish has like 60 - 70 CB so i think its better than grief and death for a smiter
ProfessionalBerg
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Wasn't in my plan to get a Grief and Um's are hard to come by when you're starting of relatively poor
In the future i'll probably get an um in it, which will give me max res with a couple of charms.
I have way more resists than you, and I still have less than max resists with Meph's Conviction (without salvation or Fade, I don't bother with these anymore). My gear (differences):
'Um' in Guillaume's
27@ Fortitude (versus 15@ + 30 cold res Duress)
33 Metalgrid (dunno stats on your, but I assume <30)
14@ ring instead of DS
Lots of small and a few grand charms with @ and single resists.
My resists with Conviction are around 50 for cold and around 40 for lightning. No fade/salvation. Fire resistance is unimportant, since there are few fire damage sources around Mephisto (unless you attracted Diablo and his Pit Lords, while still fighting Mephisto).
my metalgrid is 30@, and my mistake i took a carrion wind instead of a DS and i carried a few all res sc and a all res lc, i was more focusing on getting at least one thing to stop hitting me rarther then check my resists.
After googling a skill calculator i find treachery gives 60@ for just less then 5 minutes, so its safe to assume it lasted for my duration in tristram. I have 50/80/50/75 before that which brings it to
110/140/110/135 before salvation.
And i believe that meph's conviction is -125% i'll make take this as -50 due to my salvation which would mean i had 60/75(no +max res)/60/ 75(..no max res) which i'm happy with,
if i were to switch my helm for my 60@ kira's for meph it would mean that i could smite at a decent damage and 45res 20%sorb for light. and but with only 30%CB.
I think i'll have to try a few more times with gear changes when i get more key's, but atm im happy just running salvation for meph. But i'll keep a few single res gc's (25 - 30res) in stash for that time
Edit: yeah I just started reading what i wrote, WALL OF TEXT etc, so have some paragraphs
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ProfessionalBerg
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30% CB is a bit low imho... Each 3/10 of hits are CB-enhanced, versus 1/2 for 50% CB.
Remember, to have maxed resists in Hell with Meph's Conviction, you have to have 300 resists in at least cold and lightning:
-100% Hell penalty
-75% to max the ressits out (-90% with Fort+Tgod's for lightning)
-125% Conviction
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-300% total (-315% for lightning)
30% you get from Anya quests. So, that leaves 270/285 to go.
Metalgrid 30%
Duress 15% + 30% cold
Pdiamon'd HoZ 69%
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114% + 30% cold
So, you still need 156/171/126 (fire/light/cold) (BTW, this setup maxes out your cold res and sets your light and fire resists pretty well in Hell, without Conviction).
Treachery: 60% allres for 288 seconds
Salvation: 75% allres (assuming around lvl~3-4 I think, I forget).
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135%. This maxes out your cold res, but leaves you with 54% fire res and 39% light res (max 90). Certainly, a room for improvement.
Remember, to have maxed resists in Hell with Meph's Conviction, you have to have 300 resists in at least cold and lightning:
-100% Hell penalty
-75% to max the ressits out (-90% with Fort+Tgod's for lightning)
-125% Conviction
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-300% total (-315% for lightning)
30% you get from Anya quests. So, that leaves 270/285 to go.
Metalgrid 30%
Duress 15% + 30% cold
Pdiamon'd HoZ 69%
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114% + 30% cold
So, you still need 156/171/126 (fire/light/cold) (BTW, this setup maxes out your cold res and sets your light and fire resists pretty well in Hell, without Conviction).
Treachery: 60% allres for 288 seconds
Salvation: 75% allres (assuming around lvl~3-4 I think, I forget).
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135%. This maxes out your cold res, but leaves you with 54% fire res and 39% light res (max 90). Certainly, a room for improvement.
AnimeCraze
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30 CB is just fine IMO. I run it with 15 on my hammerdin.
For resist, I suggest a Kira's Guardian.
For resist, I suggest a Kira's Guardian.
Hahaha, I did another UT a couple of minutes ago and boy, a 10/11 Assa Torch!
This couldn't spoil my day though, because of course I permed my game before venturing into Tristerruptram. While perming I ran pits, ancient tunnels, the works.
Meph was especially nice, since he decided to drop a 172% Herald of Zakarum for my smiter with, to be exact, 0% MF!!!
I never found a HoZ at Meph's during the 1000's of MF-runs with my soso!
Hi-la-ri-ous!
This couldn't spoil my day though, because of course I permed my game before venturing into Tristerruptram. While perming I ran pits, ancient tunnels, the works.
Meph was especially nice, since he decided to drop a 172% Herald of Zakarum for my smiter with, to be exact, 0% MF!!!
I never found a HoZ at Meph's during the 1000's of MF-runs with my soso!
Hi-la-ri-ous!
RicardoBoD
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excellent guide!!
tks for it!! and keep the good work!
tks for it!! and keep the good work!
