emo smiter...what exactly is its role?

My preference for E/Mo smiting.

3 cheap and fast recharge skills that also have defensive effects, and the standard other enchants, Ether Renewal, the 2 auras, and Zealot's Fire. Rez signet is sometimes replaced by other rezzes, depending on what I feel like bringing.

The biggest perks of the skills I've chosen is all but Ether Renewal, Aura of Restoration, and Zealot's Fire can be cast on both myself and anyone else, so if the target changes, or isn't myself (Which is especially a problem if you try to spam divine boon- if a person refuses to stand next to you, you're nigh-useless), I can simply switch who I'm spamming on.

You only need 3-4 enchantments on to easily restore energy from near-empty to full in a single ether renewal, and with a second weapon set composed of +15 energy, -1 energy regen weapons, you can be sure you'll be able to restore yourself each time.

Single enchantment removal is NOT a counter to e/mo smiters. It'll be rare to have a chance to remove any of the key enchants, as they're often covered by easily recast cheap ones.

Nature's Renewal kills these builds though, so you'll most likely not see them outside of the arenas often.

The only things that hurt Renewal Smiters are: experienced players (a rarity in arenas), Rend Enchantments, Lingering Curse, and Nature's Renewal. A pure Renewal Smiter will have a 20% enchant upgrade, and have 5-7 enchantments in total.

Oh yeah! Thanks for reminding me. I need to go see a priest about a staff.

If you aren't ready for the Smiting you Elmo doll, they are painful. If you are ready they are a cute cuddly toy on the opposing team.

How do you stop a caster? A mesmer, and a half decent mesmer won't need to spend more than 20% of their time looking at the E/Mo letting them really rip up the rest of your team as well.

NR doesn't REALLY counter this build unless its being spammed constantly with Oath Shot. A lot of NR teams also run QZ and if they are just dropping NR and QZ at a normal pace they just turned the Smiting you Elmo doll into a super powered death machine, who cares if your enchants get stripped, you have Ether Renewal up for 12 out of 15 seconds (assuming QZ). You just recast all of your enchants and go to town again. Just recast 1 enchantment, wait for NR to drop it and then recast all of your real enchantments (and that 1 cover again), activate ER and go to town.

If you throw a Diversion while he's spamming madly, he's locked for 40s.

If you rend/linger his enchantments (or use strong energy denial) about 25s after the last time he used Ether Renewal, you can be sure he has very little energy left (just enough for ER.DC), he won't be able to reactivate all his enchantments + renewal fast enough to restart a smiting cycle. He's stuck for about 20s or more.

As for poor players, a simple arcane echo + backfire + bait hex (cover your BF with another hex, just in case) is enough.

Diversion works, backfire doesnt, so you know. The amount they heal themselves is much more than the amount backfire does.

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i never understood why ele's use divine boon. Without a divine favor attribute line, the healing bonus per energy regen is WAY out of wack

W/N are the smiter eaters...

Rend Enchantments.

It's funny, if it's not Nature's Renewal, it's THIS spell...

By far probably the most devastating skill any smart Necro class will have on their bar about 70% of the time.

All these self smiting bullshit builds for arena aren't really that effective unless you can get an idiot to stand next to you and die. Also, let's talk about tombs or gvg here since arena is just about the same thing as fighting against npcs. The point is to throw the smiting on your warriors since they'll be the ones running after the other team's monks. The skills that you absolutley need to be effective with the build are ofcourse zealot's fire, balth's aura, ether renewal, aura of restoration, and draw conditions. The rest of the slots you can throw in whatever your team build calls for, whether it's wards, or some other type of buff. Smiters are used a lot because it's an easy way of dishing out powerful, consistent aoe damage. Diversion is the best counter to a build like this, but other things like rend and NR can also help slow it down a bit.

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