[UBERS] Need Feedback - Building Smite Paladin

Hi everyone!

First post outside Trade section hehe.

I`m building

Smite Paladin to deal with Uber content that I'm not able to deal with my Summoner Necromancer. Currently I've achieved to find all this gear: https://d2.maxroll.gg/d2planner/7x0106az

In the link you can see also the build, I've used 2 points to get

Zeal to level up and farm outside Ubers.

What should I improve?

Thanks for your feedback.

Ok, you need to

Cap your resists,

Um the G Face. That is your #1 priority at this point.

For

Mephisto you will need a Treachery to swap and proc

Fade off of (Smart idea to do for each of the bosses).

You also want to shop a

Life Tap

Wand for weapon switch (make sure your shield on switch will be block capped and socket with P Diamonds for resists too.) Drac's should keep it up, but you will want to

Life Tap each boss with the swap before each engage.

With that it should be doable, your life is pretty low though, due to a lot of wasted poitns into STR. (id swap

Ornate Plate for an

Archon Plate Duress).

@Neurotoxina Just get a Treachery to pre-buff and you are ready to go. Maybe

Um the GFace.

You can later work on some improvements if you like.

you need more life, I think CTA or lots of life charms

a little FYI about your necros that I just learned, but if you want to clap ubers/dclone with necro go and get the big smashy bois from durance 3 or whatever, they have big CB !

1 point in

Salvation will offset almost the entirety of Uber meph's

Conviction. With that and a Treachery pre-buff you'll be more than fine.

Can achieve 100% CB with just Black

Flail+Gface+Goblins, freeing up armor for whatever you need.

Make sure to get a lifetap

Wand to start with, otherwise youll be chugging full juves.

Without CTA, you will still likely get 1shot by meph if he hits the right string of CB's.

You need way higher lightning resistance, especially with 1k health.

Ideally you want it to be much above 75% (so it's still high after Meph's aura).

The Tgod helps a little, but I doubt it'll help enough; Meph will likely still one-shot you often enough.

So that's what I'd focus on; On my paladin I just picked a bunch of crappy lightning resist charm. They don't need to be perfect or anything, just random garbage res charms. This got me to nearly 200% light res, which means I'm still capped after his aura.

CTA also helps if you can afford it.

Basically, the

Key to ubers as a smiter is "Can you survive Meph's lightning attack? Yes? Then it's a walk in the park".

But Meph's light attack hits like a truck... When I started doing

Tristram I remember getting one-shot for >1500 damage sometimes, and my light res wasn't even that bad.

(follow up) I noticed that you focus a lot on crushing blow, open wound and all that... You don't need so much of it.

Smiting with crushing blow is so fast, that pretty much ANY crushing blow gets the job done.

I'd just use 1 piece for crushing blow, and 1 piece for open wound.

Everything else, I'd use stuff that improves your survivability; Resistance, health, reduce damage, etc..

I used to do them with stuff like

Shako and vipermagi; Just for the res all, reduce damage and health.

As long as you have gorerider, you're good enough for the crushing blow. You kinda have to use dracs (because casting Lifetap manually isn't practical), but I'd swap out the other pieces for better survival gear.

I would never use

Guillaume's Face.

Guillaume's Face is like "If I survive I'll kill him 8% faster". But you're not really going for speed kills, you're going for "not dying".

A

Helm with 3

Ort (90 light res) would help you more than Guillaume's.

(Not that I'd recommend that,

Shako is fine. But you don't need crushing blow from 3-4 sources)

@OP I got here late, so I assume that the gentlemen/gentlewomen above has answered your questions, so I figured I would add some "bonus" content, since you mentioned that your main is a Zoo (Summon Necro).

Summon Necro can not only do Ubers, but they are actually the fastest Uber killer of all classes!
That being said, they are also (To my knowledge) the most expensive Uber class in return. Yet, I thought I would add my two cents on the matter, in case you'd be interested down the line.

I will try to limit myself here, to avoid a massive blog thread.

The reason the Necromancer is such an efficient Uber slayer, is because of the skill

Revive . There are creatures, who once revived, will still have Crushing Blow - these will be Urdars, Mauler, Gorebelly etc (The big boys with clubs). These can be found in numerous places, most commonly in

River of Flame, Durance of Hate and

Canyon of the Magi, but also in

Black Marsh and other places.

This in combination with items such as Beast and Might Merc will make you bust ubers like you never thought possible.

I would not suggest trying this until you are "fully decked" with Beast, Enigma, Skillers and a good Merc setup.

The general strategy is simple.
Step 1: Seek & Destroy all the Revives you're gonna need/want.
Step 2:

Revive them.
Step 3: Cast

Amplify Damage &

Teleport on top of an Uber.
Step 4: Enjoy the view.

I tried to keep this as short as possible, considering it is sort of off-topic, feel free to ask any questions you may have.

Good luck in Tristam either way!

I do mine with 100% CB. Every hit counts. If you get a decent

Life Tap

Wand on switch, each should be dead before you need to reapply it.

As for your skills... 1 point in

Smite is all you need, because you don't care about the damage it does, CB is doing all the work here. You basically make a zealer and use him to kill ubers as a bonus.

Guys, to who are you replying to?
This is a 7 month old thread, and OP was last connected 6 month ago...

That fine necromancy over there.