| 1. Why would anyone use COH on a smiter? Fort if you like damage or enigma if you're doing organs. I could understand MAYBE if your resists were terrible.
2. If you use last wish, you don't need guillaumes, and I actually used shako on my smiter. Why? +2 Skills = more smite damage, and more BO. add the godly life and 10% DR (18 with ber) and it's nothing to sneeze at. Last wish also frees up your gloves, to add bloodfist or Rends or whatever mods you're short on. No, not laying of hands. We all know damage to demons doesn't work with smite.
3. I see alot of people that talk about exile damage being better than HoZ. It's not, assuming you upped the HoZ.
What is the Best (Damage) Shield with Smite?
Assuming no other gear on, base skills being 20 in smite and fanat and HS:
Sacred Rondache:
Damage: 35 to 58
Level 20 Smite = +300%
Level 20 Holy Shield = +57 to +60
Level 20 Fanaticism = +373%
(92 to 118) * (1 + 3.00 + 3.73) = 711 to 912
(Note that even with an extra 65% ED mod on a runeword shield, you're still at 771 to 989)
Upped HoZ:
Damage: 46
Level 24 Smite = +360%
Level 24 Holy Shield = +73 to +76
Level 22 Fanaticism = +407%
(119 to 122) * (1 + 3.60 + 4.07) = 1032 to 1058
Leaving us with much higher average damage from the HOZ. This will be true of any pally shield, as they are all average damage of 46.
I didn't adjust this for the +2 combat skills on exile, but you can see they won't get you to where HoZ is.
The only reason you would ever use HoZ is if you really think the defiance aura is helping you out in ubers. Because you don't need the tap when you have dracs on, and you sure as heck don't need the tap when you have last wish on. |