How? It's my first smiter and he destroys me with massive poison damage.
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How? It's my first smiter and he destroys me with massive poison damage.
if still with 95% and lot stacked, burst him with amp before he kills you.
Pretty much what Dante said if I have a good run I will kill him before he his poison or fissure kills me. It helps to have 100% crushing blow and some deadly strike. My resist are 85 all/140. Once I hit 95 I'll be using constricting ring and I won't have anymore resistance problems. I
yeah using amp is the key as inject acid will mess you up regardless of resistances if you fight him long enough. You just have to kill him quickly as it is virtually impossible to sustain through inject acid.
"While you are injected by Acid you have -8000 regen, but it only lasts about a second or so. :)" -Game from a comment on the acid injector on the wiki.
Basically it proves my point. If you get "injected," you are probably going to die even with maxed resists. The ctc on acid injector suggests that "inject acid" is a curse and thus only effected by curse reduction on things like fade and cleansing aura. Confirm that with someone more knowledgable though as I am not positive on that detail. My zon that wears puris (cleansing aura) doesnt usually get affected too much by inject acid so I suspect that I am correct.
What are you using to proc amp on a Smiter? Currently my setup is:
Helm Viel 2UmBer
Armor Valor Misc Hrs for resist
Wep El'Druin, The Sword Of Justice BerBerMal
Belt Scourge near perf
Shield Exile crappy base - cant find vortex
Boots Gores
Gloves Hysteria
Trinkets Wanderer,Madness(Phys), Seraph - Got Con ring when i hit 95
You cant survive his acid rain even with fade and cleansing, this thing is imbalanced. As said before, try to kill him fast with amp.
JohnnyScene, use hos pb rw, it's the best choice for pvm smiter.
Sacaren's Chance got chance to cast amplify damage :)
Just throw away seraph and use saracens
I use a Heart of the Shadow(rune word) phase blade on my smiter which has a 10% chance to proc amp damage. Even with Life Tap, you can't heal through the poison degen.
Lifetap is bad for this boss. Change draculs out and maybe add saracens to your heart of the shadow to have a fast amp. dmg procc. This way i killed him my first times with smiter. Full dmg, no matter what. If dmg once gets high enough you wont need to switch around anymore :)
stack a belt full of antidotes, easy kill
Ummm....how to do you keep your life up if amp damage is procing over life tap?
You don't. The point is to have enough damage to kill him before acid inject kills you, and enough resistances/mitigation to tank his other attacks.
Okay..so do you guys mind posting your dreamlands smiter builds? Im currently using cow queens set, 2x cring, frostmourne with ber ber mal, exile, scourgelords girdle, divinity and atmas ammy
You should try another weapon i guess. Frostmourne dont have much +xxx damage and only the 40 cb from 2x Ber... Ita good for inferno or physical immunes but not that good vs bosses.
As a tipp: try to get an act 1 bow merc and equip him the acid injector bow. The procc removes all physical resistancea from mobs and leasts for 5 seconds. You will deal damage like crazy (much like if amp is active)
Try to get more cb and +dmg
Most people drop the bow, so u should be able to get it free, or pay like a ~ ist if u want it fast, i guess :)
I think Frostmourne is the best weapon due to Sin Dragosa ( ur able to kill physical immunes ).
A little offtopic : Imo Kaluut should be a bit nerfed in crucible, because if acid rain hits you it's impossible to survive and dying on 19lvl cost me two keyboards :D
The smiter build i used to have on dreamland :
cow set, 1 cons ring + 1 madness phys, eth frostmourne ber mal zod, divinity, exile, saracens, scourgelord.
Used to make full run in 4 min ( including mappo)
Ethereal is a wasted socket for a smiter :) Yes only the *damage mod matters!
Seems like acid injector did the trick :D Do poison facets work with injector and kaalut armor on a merc?
Just in case you didn't know btw, java can 4/4 bosses easily, I never use smite for dreamland, I feel like java is faster.
Bursting Kaalut without dying is easy, same for mappo and sha with a bit practice.
You don't need to invest in cb and above 10k dmg is nice already.
The trick with othuyeg is to switch to Twins Anger or what that new unique javs are called and saracens. The one point in jab you have is enough and you can kill othuyeg easily without dying once in just a couple seconds.
Dunno if you prefer smiter, but mappo needs gear switch then right?
I can run a full dl in 3 minutes with a smiter, including mappo, i think java is about the same speed, but sha can be immune to light sometimes :) with smiter u will allways be able to kill all 4, no matter the immunities
This is possible with a amp smiter running life on hit, i get 233 life on hit from enchants hence i dont need the lifetap.
Yes try to get some life on hit enchants, and enchant ur items with that is the best option, u could also use Devil's Bargain with some nice 70~ Life on hit, including this with a prime can get u up to 125 life on hit allready!
And yes poison facets increase Kaluut's armor damage, but the curse is just a mass - repl life curse, i dont think there's any poison involved on the curse!
mephisto is right. The acid inject isnt affected by any +% or +dmg mod. Its a plain and simple "curse"-based spell that lowers your liferegeneration. And liferegeneration thing is put on a number that cant be changed. But its possible to lower the duration with fade for example. Cuz its curse based :)
If your merc is wearing the acid injector, the damage of the spell itself isnt soooo much... What really kicks in while this "curse" is active is the fact that it lowers the monsters physical immunity to absolute zero. You will do maximum damage for around 5 seconds. And most of the time its refreshed while its active cuz the bow-merc strafes alot :D
Since this is a curse you may not want to have lifetap ctc on some items. So switch draculs to whatever statstickgloves and change exile for zaka or something with high damage.
infos on acid injector:
http://annihilus.net/wiki_index.php?title=Acid-Injector
(the comments here are interesting)
http://annihilus.net/wiki_index.php?title=Acid-Injector
(stats of the bow on actual content)
http://annihilus.net/showthread.php?t=8375
those are the 2.3 patchnotes with the comment from alex:
• Acid Injector and it's skill Inject Acid have both been buffed. Inject Acid now lasts roughly 5 seconds (up from 2) and now also removes all of the target's Physical Resistance / DR % and lowers their armor by 100% for the duration of the curse. The Inject Acid change is retroactive and will affect existing Acid Injectors, but the bow itself has also had its stats buffed and will need to be found again.
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And to get back to topic:
in the character guides section in the forum (not the wiki) there are actually a few different playstyles for smiters.
One managed to make a poison based smiter with the lichking dagger :)
and @Dante im pretty sure, Frostmourne is not the best weapon to do especially dreamlands... Sindragosa procc is nice but against bosses its the best to have plain physical damage and mass CB.
For sure on inferno and plaguelands frostmourne rocks :) and if the smiter has no problems at all you can just use frostmourne all day long.
Good alternatives are the lichking dagger (but has no cb nor stops it monster regen)
or Heart of the shadow. My favorite due to amp, good +damage, good speed and good cb on it...
Frostmourne and -150 res Conviction will deal with Mappo or immune Shaa :)
But yes a poison smiter could work good as well, its all personal preference.
@Lucid: Is this acid injector curse full affecting on bosses? Never tried it on bosses.
im not sure if it works vs lichking for example. I know he is immune to curses. Probably this is the weakness of acid injector.
but vs dreamland bosses it seems to be fully effective. I kill those guys there with my summoner druid xD
edit: tryed a litte bit around in dreamlands
inject acid reduces the physical resistances of Kaluut, shaaa und othuyeg pretty well. At least it lowers it so far, that my summoner druid is able to kill one of them in the period of 3-4 injects.
(which feels pretty much, compared to what damage it does to normal hell mobs xD)
inject acid does not pierce the immunity of mappo tho... I dont know if its not able to pierce at all or if its capped in some way, like amp is (-100% physical res. max and 1/5 penalty on immunes).
would be nice to know :O
Should i reroll and max out Conviction instead of Fant?
-150 res fully gear. Mostly you'll need like 4 points to reach the cap wich is 25 points.
Still stuck on what I should use for armor. Running Knarst's Ribcage at the moment which is FINE for Dreamlands, but god awful for uber trist due to the random teleports. My current build:
Frostmourne ber ber mal
Herald Of Zak
Knarst's with 3x mark of the dragonslayer jewels
Scourgelord's Girdle
Treads of Valusia
Divinity
Devil's Bargain
Any suggestions or changes peeps?
In other news: I feel that an act 3 merc is better than act 1.:
Knarst's Ribcage (he doesn't die..just teleports away when hit)
Bulwark
Focus
Sss'HAA's Primordial Fang (the aura this sword gives is INSANELY good for a smiter)
as for an armor advice you can either run Enigma (i do so) but thats not the big toughness or damage. Just teleport
or a standart fortitude/CoH
or what works very good for survival is a arcaines valor
ofcourse best thing is probably full cow set :3
Not a fan of odium. It doesn't add anything other than teleport in my honest opinion. I'll yank the dragon jewels, didn't know that CS doesn't work for smiters. I like the boots for the burst of speed and the fact that the str bonus adds damage to smite, I suppose that I can swap them out after casting it for gore riders? I was running full cow set, but kept dying because of the lack of life on hit (no pally prime charm and I'm running Devil's bargain pretty much just for the life on hit mod).