Some questions about smiter (vindi)

PMurillo

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Some questions about smiter (vindi)

Well as for uber era it was inevitable to make myself an efficient uber runner, and it came to be smiter pally.
I went on (then I didn't know the name vindicator) pure smiter route - basic 3 (fana, HS, Smite) and lookin for any synergies I came to max defiance, and as a caution put 1 pt in salvation.
Now (lvl 82) I have 6 spare points and will have more to come.
As recently my last friends who played according to the league rules quit and I am sick of seeing every1 not even trying to duel w/o enigma, cta, aura wielding weps and drinking mana, I decided yet that I will retire public dueling for good.
That's why I didn't give the rest to charge as I later found in vindicator guide, especially after noticing that sometimes charge stops to work untill I reenter a game.
Any suggestions?
I was thinking about giving 1 pt per left&middle branches of defensive auras and 1 pt in sanctuary + prereqs.
The other option maybe is.. vengeance to get rid of those annoying non-undead possesed PI's?
And as for above - is vengeance working the same way as berserk or it adds elemental damage on top of physical?
the other may be max sacrifice + 1pt in zeal (altogether 5 pts with anni and torch when I get those :D)?

Ok that's it for my pally, now more general:
since last paladin I played was 1.09 one, then there wasn't much of issue about auras - 2 were the most I could get while soloing, rarely got into games where it was more than 1 pally.
but now assuming I can have up to 3-4 auras on char itself + next 2 at least from merc then my question is:
Is there any cap for number of auras active on a single character?

Finally - maybe it is offtopic and correct me if it's not paladin-only but:
When I made it to bartuc, the game kicked me out and wrote "connection interrupted". I managed to join the same game nevertheless, killed 1-2 of bartuc's minions and the story repeated 2 times more.
Then again I went just like that to make some runs in this game - countess, andy etc. and when it came to Travincal I was kicked out again, rejoined 3-4 times and managed to kill only one of the high council minions.
What the heck is that? I never had it with a necro.

For the end, a question:
how the heck ppl get it on with forti when dealing with frozen horrors or balrog when they use inferno (although it happens much rarer as they prefer to swing)?
I mean - I went to Snapchip Shatter place and the game (rather not connection I think) started to slow so badly that nothin happened, every few secs it was a jump and again - this was all due to the ice bolts that where shot en masse of course due to those arctic blasts and only my merc saved my skin.
Isn't it a problem when you go ubertrist?
Thx for in advance for any replys and advices :smiley:
 

PMurillo

Diabloii.Net Member
Well... I waited so long and no answer o_O
I can't believe no1 knows answers for anything.

As for the update I have a simpler question about ubertrist:
I plan to hunt organs as well as uber three with my vindi but what can be a problem is uber izual place where OKs spawn which means trouble of course becuz of IM.
Is it possible to use the well known game delay even if it's empty and rejoin with other char to clear the place from those guys and then rejoin it with my vindi for getting izi?
 

Vegetall

Diabloii.Net Member
Well i never saw this post, but as for the auras, u can have as many as u want as long as they dont inerfear with each other like if u have a might merc and a lastwish the higher might will win, or if u have dragon with holy fire and ur useing holy fire the higher will win but if u have Hoj dual dragons they will all stack due there from items.....

but if u have say might merc with insight and ur pally is running conviction for argument purpose a faithbow all those will be use able.. and then u can add a bramble armor dream helm phenoix sheild all that will work....

and if ur computer is having trouble with slow down, first u need to make sure ur computer is up to par, i mean like 256 Mb RAM at least decent processor not really a need of grphics card for the game... also when u first install and it does the video test make sure its on the first option (forgot its been awhile) so the game looks flat not 3dish, b/c that will slow down the game immensly....

as for CI's not sure what can cause that never had the problem, but i can think its another computer issue.. not just internet.. since it happens to some but not all.... and IMO if more then one person is going to drop it usally means the whole game it going to ......

as for Pvp crap that i sorta peiced togther from ur first paragraph i have no idea.. i dont Pvp

for ur second post ur best or best bet is to have 2 comps with 2 cdkeys to insure that u can switch in and out (2 accoutns of course) i dont always trust the game perm method.... but u can sit in the game for 5mins i belive to make sure its perm and then swich in and out, and yes those guys suck....
 

PMurillo

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I mean perm thing is not a problem - at least it never failed me.
What was my concern is the fact if portals will remain, similarly to cow lvl or close when a character that opened them exits and the game while being empty will hold the portals?

As for first part of first post - I asked for some optional suggestions for the last one maxed skill excluding this so obvious charge so I can make it more efficient in PvM.
 

Lanceor

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Seeing as you've already maxed Fanaticism, I think it's worthwhile putting a point in Zeal for PvM. Pick any fast, high elemental damage weapon, and you'll have a good solution against PI's.

Pump more points into Sacrifice will give you more Zeal damage of course, but that will slowly turn you from a PvP Smiter to a hybrid.

I would not recommend Vengeance - it takes a godly weapon and a lot of points in synergies for it to be effective. And unlike Berserk, it does do physical damage, so it's not too useful against IM.
 

PMurillo

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thx for advice lanceor, as for PvP earlier (in shortest way) - I said I won't PvP with it rather, and yeah... I also wonder why this was put to PvP as my questions were mainly about PvM :rolleyes:
 
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