More Uber Smiter Questions

[sudkamp]

Hi,

I've just been doing some research and have 2 more questions. Basically I am seeing 2 general ways of equipping your guy to maximize resist, for people who are not rich.

1. Guillaume + High Resist Armor (GA/Smoke/Lionheart) + Other

VS

2. Kiras Guardian Angel + Duress (CB armor) + Other

I play hardcore ladder, so right now I'm leaning towards option 2. Option 2 just seems way more viable as it is much much easier to stack the resist. If I go the guillames route, I really need to stack the resist charms, UM every piece of equipment, and lose on the lifers.

What are your opinions. Also how much points in strength do you guys normally go. I see no choice but to put points in strength, as strength charms mean no life charms. This means like up to 90 points base for HOZ.

[MagpieLee]

Either way works. Assuming you have Gores, what weapon will you be using?
Also, Kiras is only "useful" for Meph becuse of his nasty aura. Once he's dead you can switch to Gulli and take the other ubers down more quicker.

[guface]

kira's is so underrated... it adds a lot of depth to gear choice. Also GA isnt a high resistnace armor (it only adds +15% max to each). The resistances themselves have to come from somewhere else...like a kiras :D

The rest of your gear determines your armor/hat choice. The questions you have to ask are whether you have enough CB already, whether you have sources of resistnace already and what you're aiming for in terms of CB - the 50% mark or more.

[Arutha]

I use gface + smoke/coh on my uber smiters. I do always throw on a treachery and go stand in one of the fires burning outside of town to precast fade before entering trist just so I have max res with mephys conviction on me. But like other people said it depends on your weapon. I like to use grief which has no cb on it so I tend to use gface and goblin toe for my cb. If you are using a weapon that has %cb on it then kiras can be a good choice.