Famine or Hand of Justice?

[ntelf]

Famine or Hand of Justice?

Hi there, I am thinking of making a weapon for my smiter. I grabbed a 4os one handed axe today, not eth though. However, I dunno which runeword is better for a smiter pally, Famine or Hand of Justice?

Btw, I am quite poor and cant afford a lot, and I am a NL player, thats why I am preparing for these "mid-level" rune words. =)

 

[jakotaco]

neither, use those HRs to make a Grief instead. Another alternative for ubers is Last Wish.

cheap options are some of the unique pally scepters or for example Fleshripper.

 

[seralph]

If you cant trade for a grief(highly recomended) I would prefer the famine over hoj. For grief and famine i would use a phase blade for a PvM smiter.
For me a smiter without grief is only half a smiter, the diffrence to famine is to huge.

 

[ispankpigeons]

being nl he can't make grief or last wish.

i'm not sure what grief is worth nl, but i paid 15 hrs for my last wish.

so i doubt he can afford either.

out of the two i would go with famine, just because it adds a ton of elemental damage to your attack.

 

[jakotaco]

is elemental dmg added to smite? didn't know that... also didn't see the "poor" section. Hmm, else you can get an Astreon's Iron Ward or the already mentioned Fleshripper <3

 

[Gorny1]

Just a reminder, please post threads of the same topic in only one forum.

Thank you.

 

[AnimeCraze]

No, the ele damage does not add to smite. If you can't get grief or LW, I would suggest looking over some uniques.

 

[ispankpigeons]

oh my bad, i didn't notice that he was a smiter.

i was thinking for a zealer.

 

[Evrae Altana]

I'd save those runes and look for an Astreons or Heaven's Light instead.

 

[seralph]

A pure smiter has no benefit from famine. A lot of PvM smiters are zeal/smiters, famine is an option then.

An other route is the high cb one, which is cheaper and sad to say less versatile in PvM imo.

 

[AnimeCraze]

I would rather go for something like BotD.

 

[ntelf]

Thx guys, then which one is better? ebotd or grief?

Oh, I mean zerk axe =)

 

[Quietus]

Thx guys, then which one is better? ebotd or grief?

Oh, I mean zerk axe =)

For a smiter, grief - preferrably in a phase for PvM, as the cost to repair a zerker grief is annoying. If you can't get that, then go for a build with high crushing blow, and hybrid yourself with zeal, so that your ebotd will do something worthwhile.