What to socket in LS for f. zealot

[FattyMcGee]

hello all. I have a fanatic zealot pally that is built for ubers (uses 1pt smite for them of course). I'm non ladder so i can't get any runewords like grief, and i had a lightsabre laying around (fast, +10-30 dmg, 25% light absorb, seemed like a good anti-uber weap) so that's what he's using. here's what he looks like:

lvl 80
20 Fanat
20 Sacrifice
20 Holy Shield
10 or so in Zeal
10-15 in defiance
1 in all prereqs & utilities


Gear:
Lightsabre phase
"duress" archon plate 1395def
SoE 7/15
Dracs
um'd HoZ
um'd Guillaume's
Gores
ravenfrost/rare ring with dual leech + res all
Highlords



So I've socketed the rest of my gear and um'd it for res, so what should i put in my lightsabre? obviously it doesn't need IAS as it hits all the fastest breakpoints for smite/zeal, and since this char is primarily for ubers, putting ED in it wouldn't really help. What should I do?

Note: I'm fairly poor so if at all possible, leave out high rune suggestions... I don't own 1 to my name right now, much less an extra to socket in a LS.


Thanks in advance for the suggestions!



-f

[PhatTrumpet]

I use a similar setup on my Uberdin (Azurewrath instead of Lightsabre, Verdungo's instead of String, and 107% res 'Sanctuary' instead of HoZ). What I did was 'Shael' the Azurewrath since, like you said, nothing seems to really fit in such a fast low damage weapon, but with the 'Shael' Azurewrath and Highlord's I can actually switch to Salvation when fighting Meph to counter his Conviction and still have max speed Smite. I believe in your case, however, if you were to 'Shael' the Lightsabre you'd still need to stick an IAS jewels somewhere else in your setup to reach max speed without Fanat since Azurewrath comes with 30%IAS and Lightsabre only has 20% (I believe).

Lightsabre really isn't a great choice of weapon since all it offers is way more speed than you need and 25% lightning absorb (the +10-30 damage doesn't add to Smite damage as far as I know). You'd probably be better off with something like Heaven's Light or even a 'Black' runeword flail/knout/scourge. If you insist on using the Lightsabre I'd probably either socket it with a 15% resist-all jewel to help stack against Meph's Conviction or an 'Um' rune for some added Open Wounds.

[MegaFlame]

Dual shael'd heaven's light is the best choice here IMO.

[FattyMcGee]

k sounds good, i'll probably just search around for a better weapon then :)

speaking of max smite without fanat, would you mind providing me with a link to the place wehre i can calculate smite speeds? I looked in the forum stickies and Strat. compendium but couldn't find it. I'm probably just overlooking it. thx!


-f




P.S. why does the +10-30 dmg on LS not apply to smite? The redeemer's extra dmg applies to it, and so does Grief's. Is it because it's not a set value, it's variable? If so, does that mean that War Travs dmg doesn't apply either?

[Pucho]

P.S. why does the +10-30 dmg on LS not apply to smite? The redeemer's extra dmg applies to it, and so does Grief's. Is it because it's not a set value, it's variable? If so, does that mean that War Travs dmg doesn't apply either?
It's because they' re different mods, one is "adds x-xx damage", the same as war traveler, which is the in-game way to show "+x to min dmg" and "+x to max dmg" at the same time.
The other is "damage+ x" and it's only present in 4 weapons and 1 skill AFAIK