Question to FOH/Smite paladin

Is it necessairy to have 75% block for a FOH/Smiter? Or should I just go with as low dex as possible and add more into vit.?

You won't need a lot of dex, since you will max holy shield.
It is alright if you have max block after holy shield.

My FoH smiter has 300+ vita. Max block with holy shield.

Ok thx m8

I think I will stick to the 75% reduce after max holy shield...

It helps you to save Stat points.
Maxed holy shield will last for long enough. (I think you'll have at least level 30 holy shield)
Stack up for Pally Combat Skills, it helps FoH, Holy Shield, Smite, and others (You might charge, zeal sometimes.)

You will choose between two shields, Storm, or HoZ.
HoZ will do more dmg, while SS gives the DR and other well known benefits.

The range of Smite depends on the weapons. So, some people would go with Silence Berserker Axe (Range 3), and have some IAS gear, or Silence Phase blade (Range 2) but PB will require some Dex.

I use HoZ (PT), S phase and 10 x combat charms... So he will be ok I guess... I just have to have 10 combat charms otherwise I won't have a chance against other palas

How is that fun?

sensesia, the best smite shields are..

sacred targe
priests of deflection
jewelers of deflection
rose branded of deflection

best smite v smite weapon is
rosebranded scourge of quickness
2x ber

or
rosebranded cryptic of quickness
3x ber

(btw, crushing blow does work with smite)
ideal gloves are 30% lr/10% cb/kb/20 hp/15 dex/9 str


and yes max block/dr % ( or 70%+) is neccesary

He's FoH/smiter, not pure smiter, that's why I suggested Silence Zerker / PB for the damage.

Don't know about the shield selection.

Silence Zerker (138 str, 59 dex) 24-71 dmg
215% Enhanced Damage including 15% superior mod. 78-226 listed damage.
11% Mana Steal
20 Faster Hit Recovery
+2 to All Skills
All Resistances +75
20% Increased Attack Speed
Requirements -20% (110 str, 47 dex req after this mod.)

Herald (89Str req) has 20-28 smite damage.
50% resist, 30% Faster Block, 77% chance to block for pally. 20 Str, 20 Vita. 1 socket.

Assuming lv 36 Holy shield. (Maxed with 10 Combat GC, +4 from shield, +2 from Silence Zerker)
(20+121)-(28+124) = 141-152 = 146.5 avg dmg

"Lv 36 Smite = 540% ED
Lv 24 Fana = 441% ED" = 981% ED

Avg smite damage = 1583.6


Rosebranded Scourge of quickness: (125 str, 77 dex) 3-80 dmg
+3 combat skills, 40% IAS, hopefully 2 socket.

Rosebranded Sacred Targe (86Str req) of Deflecting
22-70 smite damage, 80% chance to block for pally, +3 combat skills, hopefully 2 socket, and hopefully 45% all resist.

Assuming lv 36 Holy shield. (+10 from GC, +3 from shield, +3 from Rosebranded Scourge)
(22+121)-(77+124) = 143-201 = 172 avg dmg.

"Lv 36 Smite = 540% ED
Lv 20 Fana = 373% ED" = 913% ED

Avg smite damage = 1742.3

*The calculations aren't 100% accurate.

Those are smite damage.


With Dual Rosebranded setup, it will have 20% more Ias, ~160 more smite damage, 3 more sockets. However it will require more str (no Str bonus from shield) which is less life.

Silence/HoZ setup however, will have 20% Fhr, 40 Stat points, 80% more all resist (if S.Targe is 45% resist), +4 to all skills (Fana and Conv), higher charge damage, more effective FoH (-20% more resist from Conviction.)

Of course, if only comparing Smite, Rosebranded setup would be better. (Oh yeah, Rosebranded Scourge of quickness and Rosebranded S.Targe of Deflecting with resist are not very common -_-)

However, I will go with HoZ/Silence for the flexibility. (Can FoH, Charge, Smite, Zeal etc.)

senesia, i know the best v/ts on east, (west v/ts no good-)
of all the v/ts stormshield > HoZ in the end

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