Smite Warden Build: Strategies and Item Recommendations

Ronro's Smite Warden build excels in survivability and damage, easily clearing tier 17 maps with high tankiness and effective mechanics.

### Smite Warden Build: A Comprehensive Guide for Elemental Attack Viability
* ⚔️  The Smite Warden build combines **elemental attack power** with the SM Smite skill, making it suitable for **all Ubers** and capable of clearing tier 17 maps with **95% mod compatibility**.
* 💪  With impressive tankiness, the build boasts around **100 spell breath**, **90% resistance**, and effective health and armor, allowing it to **withstand significant damage**.
* 📈  Utilizing double ures for increased crit chance and attack speed can **quadruple DPS**, while Celestial braces enhance attack speed and provide **fortify stacks for added survivability**.
* 🛡️  The Doran's prototype body armor significantly boosts damage by **lowering nearby enemies' lightning resistance**, achieving **up to -200% resistance**, which is superior to many penetration methods.
* 🔥  To manage the downside of negative lightning resistance, the build incorporates D-Breaker and Watcher's Eye, converting a **substantial portion of lightning and cold damage into fire damage** for **improved survivability**.
* ⚡  Aiming for **50 stacks of shock** is achievable with the Aura of Spring, while Static Blow increases **shock duration**, enhancing overall **damage output**.
* 💰  For mana management, the build maintains a **low mana cost per strike** and utilizes items that provide **mana recovery**, ensuring functionality even in challenging maps.
* 🏆  Essential items for the build include D-Breaker, Doran's prototype, Ra Cach, and Watcher's Eye, which collectively enhance both **survivability and damage**, making the Smite Warden a **formidable choice** in the current league.

hey everybody, Ronro here, and V than this league has been a very strong peak for any elemental attack build. So, I decided to combine it with SM Smite, which has always been an amazing skill for attacks. And here it is, my Smite Warden build, which is easily all Ubers viable and can clear tier 17 maps with 95% of the mods since it is very hard to break. For example, here's a tier 17 map with 11 mods. That's about three scarabs of risk. As you can see, there's no issues. The build has awesome clear, decent single target, and solves one of the main Ven problems: tankiness, since it can surely take some really big punches. We have about 100 spell breath, 90% resistance, four urance charge instantly, and a decent amount of armor and health, which makes the build pretty tanky. Smite Warden also utilizes some complex mechanics that could be hard to navigate, so I will explain all of them in detail, point out what items to get, and how to proceed. So

check the timestamps for particular questions and let's go. So how's the build works? We rely heavily on double ures from experienced herbal, not which are completely broken. This league to receive crazy amount of crit chance, up to 47% for one of them, and raise our attic speed as well, receiving about 38% from the second team CH. And two of them together can easily quadruple our DPS. With all of the damage and attack speed, we can use Celestial braces to rise attack speed even more and receive about 29 to 30 stacks of consistent fortify with a lot of quality of life because we just need to hit monsters. And with all of that fortify, you will be able to face tank some of the bigger hits. Next step is the Rach, which will provide a consistent source of all charges at the same time, and they'll give us whoop 50% of each people and 70% % of DPS at all times since we don't need conditions to stock our charges and also those charges.

cannot be stolen from us, so we're not really afraid of many, many bad mods. And the last part is Doran's prototype as a body armor to help both our DPS and survivability. Durani will make our damage significantly higher since all nearby enemies will have a similar lightning resistance to our character, and we can have up to minus 200% of lightning resistance, which is absolutely awesome and better than many cases of penetration. Even if you will be unable to reach 200% and they'll just stop at like 160 or 150%, it's still going to be very good. So, since we are using Doran's prototype, we will not have any kind of lightning resistance, and our lightning resistance is going to be minus. So, how we're mitigating downsides of such situation? First off, we are using D-Breaker. D-Breaker is like very cool, and they receive up to 20% of Co damage, lightning damage, and physical damage as fire damage. That's a huge boost to our survivability.

ability. It also provides a lot of armor, which stacks with the re any bonus. After that, we're pretty much using Watchers ey, which is giving us 20% of cold and lightning damage taken as fire while they are affected by purity of fire. So, that's 40% already for cold and light damage. And the last part is pretty much little pride. They are going to receive tempered by War here. It will give us 50% of cold and lightning damage taken as fire damage. It's going to rise 90% of cold and lightning damage taken as fire together with D breaker and watch. Like, unfortunately, tempered by war is not that good for damage since our lightning resistance is pretty much in minus already. Getting 50% less lightning resistance is actually going to improve our lightning resistance instead of granting our more minus. And if you will get R of tempered by, as you can see, my lightning resistance drops to minus 200%, which is a cap. So, for damage, tempered bar war is not that good, but it's

providing enough survivability to pretty much worth it. So, based on this situation, there's a big question: is the build afraid of lightning damage over time? Because most of the builds are kind of afraid of it. But since we are using the combination of Dawn Breaker, tempered by War, all lightning and cold damage is taken as fire, including damage over time. Moving forward, a very important question is how to reach 50 stacks of shock based on our attack speed with everything that we are doing. We will have Aura of Spring, which will give us a chance to reach 50 stacks on shock on each enemy, and that's a pretty hard number to reach. So, there's a cool trick how we can make it much easier for ourselves to reach at least 40 or 45 for bosses with lower attack speed and up to 50 for bosses with higher attack speed. So, we need to annoy a very important note called Static Blow, because Static Blow is going to give us 50% increased duration of lightning elements, and it's going to literally

give us 50% of shock duration, and it will be much easier to stack shock that way. So, I recommend to avoid static blows in almost all build situations because it's going to provide a lot of quality of life and damage by itself. You also receive increased damage if you have shocked an enemy recently, but it's not that important. So, another very important question is how to reach 90% of fire resistance since we are receiving almost all damage as fire. We just need to stack maximum fire resistance as high as possible. So, the first step is pretty much to use purity of fire, which is very much basic, and the rest will come from jewels because right now you can roll plus 2% of maximum fire resistance on all the jewels. So, perfectly, you need to combine it with health, maybe some attack speed or critical strike multiplier, and stack plus two maximum fire resistance on all the jewels until you hit 90% of fire resistance. So, what about mana management of the build? Because mana has been a big

problem many melee builds in that league. So generally right now in game my Mana cost is about three Mana per strike. I don't think it's an issue in any form because you're going to receive much more Mana overall. I have only 14 mana and we just don't even need more because the rest of the skills will cost zero or will be based on life tap. So can the Bild just do cannot Le well to be honest yes there's no big issue like that or like less recovery of Mana because they currently have three of battle which reads like gain two Mana per enemy hits with attacks gain is not really blocked by canot Lee. Therefore we are still going to receive some Mana when we're hitting enemies and it's probably going to make our build absolutely playable in all canot Leach Maps even if leeching life could be a little harder. It's still possible to them. They're also receiving a little more Mana per life and mana on heat node which will give us two more mana and all of that together are going

to fix our Mana issues in all situations just fine. So, to reach such Mana numbers, you will pretty much need to use inspiration in your setup, and you will need to reach at least 12 or 13 money cost on one of your rings. You can also use two normal rings with minus Mone, but always keep in mind that your skill should cost at least one Mana if you're using inspiration; otherwise, if it's going to cost zero, you're not going to receive any buff from inspiration, so it's pretty important. So, talking about chaos resistance, we don't have a lot of space to pretty much stack it because we're using a lot of uni, but currently, we still can use one item that can help at heavily this cabinet. It's pretty much light of Minion, and if it's even less effective, uh, z a gladiator, you can still use it to get a significant boost of CH resistance. So, just put it to the left part, and all of the notes around are going to provide you with additional bonuses. It can help

you to move roughly from like us 30 to at least +41 +50. And if you're going to use a flask or if you're going to use a different belt, you're going to be kept. Another interesting question is pretty much immunities since we don't have an approach for Rolling immunities on our items. We pretty much need to get it elsewhere. And I think right now shock immunity is very important for the build, freeze immunity as well. So to get freeze immunity, we just need Sol Brank King. It gives us 100% chance to avoid being frozen, and that's pretty much worth it. It's also going to help his stuns. If you're getting stunned from time to time, it happens. And to get immunity to shock, we will need to take charge Mastery. Cannot be shocked without maximum power charges. Since we are going to use a ra cach, we also always consider to be on maximum power charges. And we can take that Mastery and avoid shock with just simple one point. So it's definitely

recommended. So, another important question for us is pretty much the reduction of the Critical Strike damage. Because in the current game, reaching at least like 70 to 80% of reduction of critical strike damage is very important to survive better. And if you can be CED, it will be even better. So, currently, all Critical Strike damage reduction on watch, so you can reach like 46% of reduced extra damage from critical strikes while affected by determination. You can go for high numbers like 60, but I currently roll not the perfect one, so it's 46. And you can also take a Mastery, critical Mastery. You take 30% to reduce extra damage from critical strikes, which is absolutely amazing, to be honest. So, the last part is pretty much coming from the don't break your corruption. If you can get a don't break your corruption, I definitely recommend it. You need at least like 24% reduced extra damage from critical strikes. But if you were all a better W asai, you could avoid getting corruption do breaker. And if you can get a watch

you can just uh get D breaker itself. So Z only thing that I definitely would say that you need to always take is pretty much Critical Strike Mastery. The rest is up to you, but if you have funds enough uh to afford it, I 100% recommend that. So it also very important to mention how we are keeping our tinure up time. We have a cool buff tin Master. The first six manone be apply to you have no effect. So when you're clicking the team CH first time, you will not receive any money Bur. After that, you will be able to stack some man bur on you and ures will go off. When they will go off, you will have a endurance suffusion with tin effect Linger on you per second per man bur on you. So that's a very good option because you're going to receive six seconds of lingering. After that, you'll need to reuse your tin chairs and pretty much repeat the whole process again. So you will need to reuse your team chair on average like every 15 seconds.

approximately keep that in mind, especially while you are farming harder mobs because it's very important, and it's going to give you most part of your damage. So, another very important question is how to improve movement speed. Since you are using ra cach boots, we don't have an easy access to 30% from boots, and it's making the character, well, a little slow. So, to fix that, there's a few cool tricks. First off, taking Quick Step helps a lot. So, 6% from the main and about six from the small ones will give us about 12% overall. And the next step is pretty much getting a cluster ju. This Advanced G, Advanced G is going to give us ignore all movement penalties from armor and 5% increase movement speed while holding a shell. It's going to provide about 133% increased movement speed, and together with a quick step, we're going to receive about 25% of movement speed, which could be completely compensating based on boots. So, for build to feel great, please don't forget about both of those options and

If you still feel slow, you can pretty much just use a quicksilver flask instead of the granite. So can the Smite hit twice? Well, there's a clarification from GGG about the Smite gem when they pretty much talk about Smite behavior. It's been like a few years ago, and currently, yes, Smite can hit twice. It's pretty much well-known. It's not going to be fixed pretty soon based on the G statement. So currently, for Smite to hit twice, you need to hit a zone close to the boss but not the boss itself, and pretty much your clone is going to hit the boss as well. You're getting the clone from Attack Mastery with non-strike skills targeting one additional nearby enemy. So that way, one part of the ability will hit with a melee hit, and the second will hit with lightning. So another important question: why am I not calculating the damage in P for double hits? Well, I think that such situations happen not that consistently and pretty often. You can't hit properly to pretty much ensure that.

you're going to receive the bonus, so I think it would be a little unfair to calculate it that way. I pretty much just keep basic DPS for it, which, in my opinion, is pretty much enough. However, Smite can hit twice if you're doing everything properly, and you can keep that in mind. So, another interesting question is why I'm not really seeing Cold resistance. As you can see, I have only about 39% Cold resistance in my build, and I'm currently not seeing it. It's mostly because Cold Max heat is already higher than Lightning Max heat. So, if I'm going to die because of some damage, it's probably going to be Lightning anyway, and they also transfer most of the damage to Fire anyway. So, I feel completely comfortable with such an amount of Cold resistance, and feeding more into the build is not really necessary. So, talking about our rage situations currently right now, they're getting rage from our cluster duel. Bloodsand is giving us gain two rage on hit with axes and swords. Unfortunately,

path of building can't properly calculate reach, and if it leads us to a situation where I needed to add rage to weapon one socket link with shell charge just because it's the only way how PoE can properly understand that we have reach. So, we don't actually use Rage with shell charge; it's just here for calculation. I added that in the comments, so like movement skill rage comes from cluster here for C. That's pretty much it, but the main source is here, and it's blood. So right now, there's only one mode that it's very hard for us to do. It's pretty much reduced effect of your auras because it's going to completely decimate our fire resistance because we are using our purity of fire to pretty much get fire resistance for the BT. So, it's probably a very bad mode. You can still try to run it, but you're probably going to die in those Maps a lot of times because you'll be out of resistance completely, and every big hit is going to kill you because all the

damage will be transitioned to fire. Another very bad mode is pretty much reduced action speed. It's still doable, but it's going to be much slower. And the last part is pretty much monster are blocking your attacks. So in that case, if you're encountering monster are blocking your attacks from Scaro risk, for example, you need to repat attack Mastery from nonv Strike skill. Target one additional nearby enemy, which is very, very important to pretty much monster cannot block your attack after you finish that map. Please repeat it back, but just changing that Mastery for one point should help you in such situation. So another pretty common issue is pretty much low intelligence of the build. Usually, we roll a lot of Intelligence on one of the Rings, so if you can get like up to 100, that would be very good. However, if you're playing like a middle budget version, for example, you will need to roll very small amount of Intelligence on one ring and small amount of Intelligence on another. After that, it's also recommended to pick one

point here for thief craft because it's going to give you 30 intelligence. All of that combined is going to help you to pretty much reach your required intelligence and use most of the abilities just fine. But if it's still not enough, there's another option. You could also take Primal Spirit for two points. It's not the best option, but it's going to provide 20 more intelligence and should be worth it in most cases. So, if you're still not capped and don't have enough intelligence to use R, just go for Primal Spirit too. So, another great question is pretty much Avatar of the Wilds, which grants Unbound. Is it worth it? So, generally, with a Smite Build, they're not really stuck in Avatar of the Wild that often. So, at most of the bosses, we are going to be resulted. That's why in PU, I'm not calculating in Unbound Avatar at all. It could give us a lot of damage, but I'm not calculating it because in most cases, we will not have it. So, if

you feel like you don't have it often. I recommend to just get rid of it and take evasion Tina effect twice. It's going to give you about 4% of additional damage, up to 6% based on your build setup. But you can still use Salat of the wild in some particular conditions, especially in like TI 17. So if you feel like it's worth it for you, you can pretty much keep it. So half of the time I play it with Avatar and another half I played with spip for tinure effect. Both of those approaches are working perfectly fine if everything else stays the same. So what kind of items you will absolutely need to Kickstart the build. So first off is D breaker. It's very important because it's going to help us with damage mitigation. Second part is D any prototype. After that you can get ra cash and the celestial brace for 45. And next step is pretty much getting little pride for tempered by War. And the last step is Watcher's eye. All of that together is very important for your Sur

ability mostly, but it's going to help you with damage as well. If you just have those items, you can pretty much start, but most of the time, you will need all of them. Maybe you can try to play it without, like Watcher's Eye, but capability is going to heavily suffer, so be very careful with that. So, talking about our items, everything is pretty simple. For Celestial Brace, I recommend getting the corruption with plus one maximum fry charge if it's possible, and otherwise, you can just take 10 maximum fortification. For Ra Cash, you can get plus one maximum endurance charge as a corruption, but if it's expensive, just go with basic Ra Cach. The same goes for Hot Cter. The best corruptions are like Critical Strike multiplier and one of the aura effects, but Norman Head Hunter is working just fine. So, for your weapon, you will need lightning damage, some attack speed multiplier, and hits can be raed. That's pretty much everything that you might need, so don't worry if you will miss some stat on that. Talking about the

shield. You can get 20% of everything taken as fire for sure ability, and if you can, you can add corruption as a reduced Critical Strike damage. The re-prototype should be very cheap, especially a basic version, so you can look into corruption. I recommend getting at least one socketed AE gem, socketed aura, or socketed duration. All of them are working pretty much good, and if you can get to it, it will be even better. For the Rings, you need to aim for non-challenge skills, has minus Mana cost, but it could be very expensive. So in that case, just drop it completely. Take minus lightning resistance, intelligence, and life. That way, just roll your second ring with minus Mana. However, if you have minus Mana at one, you can pretty much roll the second with minor lightning resistance again. And for let, aim for Global critical star multiplier, some life, and minus lightning resistance. That's pretty much it for the items. The most important part is team chair, so make sure you roll them perfectly. You'll need at least 40% like melee weapon attack speed to together with elemental

damage with melee weapons, and at the second te CH roll, Critical Strike chance, and M weapon damage penetrates 26% Elemental resistances. So, as a last touch, you can add Pro Genesis to the build if you want, but if you don't have funds for it, you can just go with a normal bazal flask instead. So, the overview of the three is pretty simple as well. We're taking te effect everywhere where we can do that. I'm also taking two clusters, so one is Marshall Pro and Vance guard, and one goes for blaston for ra and Devastator because it's going to help with a clear, even if clear is already good. So, they're placing the light of Minion here, and pretty much it's helping with chos resistance significantly. I also recommend to take Shield Master because it's giving a lot of DPS, and one passive here helps us with armor because we already have some neur charges. The most important part is to take nonv strike Target one additional enemy, and you can take it here just fine or also you can

add a lot of spell suppression too, so if you don't have spell suppression cap, you will need to take a chance to suppress spell damage. It's lucky, and that's pretty much it. Otherwise, the three should be pretty self-explanatory. I'm also going for instant Le because it feels very good in many Maps, so try to take it if it's possible. Also, in the PO, I will have load-out options up here, so there's a middle budget and low-budget version. The low-budget version is not really that cheap, but look into it if you don't have enough funds for higher versions. So, that's been my Smite W. The Bu check out different budget versions, and thank you very much for watching. If you still have questions, feel free to hit me on Twitch. I will leave the link in the pinned comment. See you next time. Run right out.

[PoE 3.25] TANKY SMITE Warden - Ubers / T17 / ALL Content - Path of Exile Build Guide

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The Smite Warden build combines elemental attacks with SM Smite, making it viable for Ubers and capable of clearing tier 17 maps with multiple mods.

The build focuses on tankiness, with high spell breath, resistance, and armor, while utilizing double Ures for increased crit chance and attack speed.

Key mechanics include Celestial braces for fortify, Rach for consistent charges, and Doran's prototype for lightning resistance reduction, with additional survivability from D-Breaker, Watchers eye, and tempered by War.

Building for Lightning Damage and Fire Resistance

The build is designed to mitigate lightning damage over time by converting it to fire damage using Dawn Breaker and War.

Stacking shock is crucial, with Aura of Spring and Static Blow providing increased duration and making it easier to reach 50 stacks.

To achieve 90% fire resistance, the build focuses on using Purity of Fire and rolling +2% maximum fire resistance on jewels, while also managing mana through enemy hits and strategic ring choices.

Key Strategies for Improving Character Build

To enhance the character's build, focus on achieving shock and freeze immunity through Sol Brank King and Charge Mastery.

Aim for 70-80% reduction in critical strike damage using a watch and critical strike mastery.

Improve movement speed with Quick Step and a cluster jewel for increased movement speed while holding a shell.

Smite can hit twice by targeting a zone close to the boss, with the clone from Attack Mastery hitting the boss as well.

The player's Cold resistance is low due to higher Cold Max heat, making Lightning damage more likely to cause death.

The build's rage is primarily gained from a cluster jewel, with the Shell Charge socket link used for calculation, while also addressing common issues like low intelligence and aura effect reduction.

Building a Smite Character: Key Intelligence and Item Recommendations

To boost intelligence, prioritize Thief Craft for 30 points and consider Primal Spirit for an additional 20 points if needed.

Avatar of the Wilds' Unbound ability is not essential for a Smite Build, so consider alternative options for additional damage.

Key items for the build include D Breaker, D Any Prototype, Ra Cash, Celestial Brace, Little Pride, and Watcher's Eye, with specific corruptions recommended for optimal performance.

Aim for 20% fire damage reduction and consider adding corruption for reduced Critical Strike damage.

Focus on socketed AE gems, auras, and duration for optimal performance.

For rings, prioritize non-challenge skills with minus Mana cost and roll for lightning resistance, intelligence, and life.