Uber tristram build options

[Arkansaw]

I'm finally looking into my very first utility build for ubers (dclone and tristram), after going through the build guides and suggestions from other people, I have roughly 3 options for skills to max:

1. zeal/sacrifice/fanaticism/holyshield (1 pt smiter)
2. zeal/smite/fanaticism/holyshield (Pougee's original)
3. fanaticism/smite/holyshield/conviction (counter Meph's conviction)

All three seem viable to me, so I'm still undecided and would like to gather some feedback about the pros and cons for these options.

[ruthlessAnarchy]

1. zeal/sacrifice/fanaticism/holyshield (1 pt smiter)

This is what I'm doing, 83 as of yestery, Very easy to lvl, you will enjoy the zeal dmg with sacrifice. Also, I run Destruction Keys very easily, life tap + zeal Ftw... when I find naht I just throw up a life tap from wand(and I have Dracul's) and then leech my way to him taking dmg from CE which does hurt but with tap up it's full in half a zeal and I only have 1200 hp. Kill any boss taking zero dmg.

[Arutha]

I would go with 1 or 2, personally I like to max smite, hs, fanta, sac, and the rest into zeal, since sac gives more %ed than 1 pt into zeal. Eventually this ladder I will replace my heavens light with a greif and since that has ignore targets defense I don't really care about the ar bonus from putting points into zeal. I don't see any reason to put a bunch of points into conviction just to override meph's conv since you can easily stack on enough res and put 1 pt into salvation to have max res even with his conviction on you.

[xelnanga]

1 pt smiter is the way to go. I highly recommend it and you can even use zeal instead of smite on ubers since you will have very high life leech.

[RequiemDeath]

1 or 2... I have both, and both of them rock really hard... I can't really say that one is better than the other... Both are quite versatile, but having max smite will help you stand alone a little better in PvP... As for what they are built for, both kill really fast... I see no reason to have a maxed conviction aura with all the avalible ways to over max your resists, thus completely nerfing Meph's conviction...


Edit: You can't leech off of bosses... Life tap is what keeps you alive in this case...

*Requiem_Death

[Lanceor]

I recently successfully did the Ubers with a level 82 Paladin using crappy gear and a Life Tap wand... 1pt Smiter for the win!

No need to have more than one point in Smite unless it's ONLY going to PvP or fight Ubers.