Smite... lol?

[Prr]

Smite... lol?

Hey!

Started playing D2 a couple of days back. I've only played singleplayer before, and that was like when it first came out

So, I'm building my 1pt smiter as the guide on this forum is.


A question, my smite dmg is way lower than my zeal damage, and since you can't stun bosses, what is is that makes smite so great? I've been trying to smite bosses on normal, and thats just so lame Zeal tears them up way better.

Explain the whole "smite situation" for me please, and perhaps I will be a Noob +1

/Prr

 

[hypper]

Because you will use weapons and equipment that boost your smite damage... Zeal seems better in the beginning, but Smite is way better for bosses.
Just read the topic, all the pages.

 

[AceAZA]

do u have greif? thats really the key to smite damage.

 

[DayDream]

smite is good because it stuns and always hits. (Doesn't require attack rating like zeal or any other attack.)

 

[AnimeCraze]

Damage does not matter when you uber. The consistency of your life leech is. That is why smite is preferred.

 

[illestkhmai]

Damage does not matter when you uber. The consistency of your life leech is. That is why smite is preferred.

Don't forget the application of crushing blow.

 

[safetypro]

Please read my Treatise on Smite Damage to understand how different gear affects Smite. Here's the link:
http://www.purediablo.com/forums/showthread.php?t=624199

 

[prion]

the other thing thats important to know--i beleive it's covered in the 1 pt smiter guide--is that the character screen doesn't show your actual damage

 

[flamingchen]

Even without stuff like grief, you can use the smite's ITD on everything and crushing blow to get a boss to to a sliver of hp and just zeal the rest. If you have something like grief, you can just smite all the way.

My frostadin had extremely low smite dmg, but with 88 crushing blow, he cut hell baal down really fast, then I just used my zeal to get rid of the rest. With fanat, smite does more damage.

 

[sorcguy]

A question, my smite dmg is way lower than my zeal damage, and since you can't stun bosses, what is is that makes smite so great? I've been trying to smite bosses on normal, and thats just so lame Zeal tears them up way better.

Zeal is better for everything but the "big bosses". I played a lot of single player back when it first came out and you've never faced a "big boss".

Big bosses are "Uber Diablo" when getting an annihilus charm, and a whole bunch of them when you collect organd and do uber tristram.

http://www.battle.net/diablo2exp/monsters/act5-ubermephisto.shtml

These guys are REALLY hard to hit. That's when you need smite..