D2R My Fav Builds - Smiter/Foh Paladin (North Star Smiter)

Hello Guys and Gals Today I am talking about one of my Fave Builds, Smiter/Foh Paladin (North Star Smiter)
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[@clackymaracas2804]

You're just the most wholesome D2R content creator out there, and your builds are interesting.

[@itz_x_salvation395]

Just started playing this game again for the what 50th time. 6k plus hours, I'd say I have close to in my lifetime. Got it free on console and was like screw it. Let's go start again. Gonna give this build a shot for the fun of it. I personally love foh for chaos runs. So a little more fun kicking ass with smite is cool.

[@GGMentor]

You won't be disappointed this build is insanely good

[@amfitness5598]

I’m a big fan of this build. Works great and more fun to play than regular smiter.

[@balintmiklosy9138]

Lovely build. I'm a sucker for anything using Astreon's, it is a super underrated item. I have a bit of fetish on it, as it was the last piece on my single player holy grail for an eternity, then I dropped an ethereal one to complete it, sadly only +3 and bad damage roll, but completed the grail nontheless. Principle is another choice I love, same as the Bone runeword on a necro.

[@whitekony1006]

I did a 2h zealot/foh version of this build,as an excuse to squeeze the most i could out of a perfect eth ribcracker. Im an old-school player and cant let go of my love for it haha. With gores and a damage/res jewel gface i had 100%cb. Fully synergized 100%ctc holy bolt, casting foh on swap with a pally cta and spirit. He was a good chaos farmer, crush crowds with a few fohs and then whack the remnants to death with my staff. Used a might/pride merc, and hated phys immunes until i tried out reapers over the ribby. Its so fn good.

[@jowston100]

Really really really like this new series of yours GGM.

[@JasonPegis]

This build is so cool (and surprisingly affordable that I might have to just make the North Star Smiter and abandon my tesladin plans. Thanks for the unique build!

[@zacharyr6886]

Back when you made your original videos about the Principle getting buffed i loved your approach on how to utilize holy bolt. Tried it out as a zeal dream pally with principle. Thanks for the creative and fun ways to play something that isn't a sorc!

[@lefter700]

Thank you! I really wanted to to a FoH hybrid but didn't take the time to research and optimize the gear for it. Cheers!

[@darkhadough5063]

This is an awesome build, I tried it offline and it smokes Chaos and World Stone Keep/Throne of Destruction and Ubers. One thing I forgot to make for this character to boost up its stats is CTA, will be doing that soon.

[@soapminer7099]

Used this last season loved it ended up using plague meditation and prayer for group heal and mana over hoto for my foh part my group was happy with infinite mana and like 100 health a second. And heavens light with 2 shales in it for smite.

[@Ninjabob568]

This is my Favorite of all time. Dueling with a hybrid has always been my thing lol. many many nights on one of these

[@jarredcarlson2479]

This is what I was hoping for! Nice hybrid for Ubers and pvm

[@Ma10as_Phar]

Rolling the build this season, it works out really great! Just need to find Astreons, havnt had any luck finding it 🙂

[@spig3547]

Heavens Light is a decent option for the weapon, has +3 all skills with 33% CB. Obviously it doesn't have the +damage on it but it's a nice item to use until you can get a Astreons.

[@GGMentor]

yes, also the Redeemer likewise has the skills and grief damage but not the CB

[@Aggrosk8]

This build is awesome and I think it's what I'm going to run this season of ladder with. Thanks for the great videos.

[@lullylew9083]

Awesome build. I am a patient man, I don't mind going it slow, and really enjoy having an act 5 Barb on my FoH. When it comes to stuff I can't kill I like to let him go ham while I heal his ass. I find it really enjoyable, it's nice to work as a team with my merc instead of using him purely as a mobile stat/buff stick. I am still playing around with the build, probably going to look into how it can support a party more effectively as there isn't much point investment to get FoH working well. Holy shield is useful but I think I can make do with 1 point in it for the most part.

[@GGMentor]

North Star Smiter is literally everything the FoH paladin is but better. You can still heal spam, FoH spam, and more it's quite an effective build. On top of that you can even heal with the holy bolt procs from principle armor and laying of hands

[@lullylew9083]

@@GGMentor Sweet! ^_^ I'll certainly give it a try. Cheers!

[@jahdhdoflkdkwja]

You should cover all the builds you played up to now😂 u explain well my friend. Take care see you soon on your stream

[@Pavion143]

Just seeing this now. Original build is called vindicator for pvp many many years ago wielding grief PB + exile or hoz then on swap a cta made in a 3 conv 3foh stick ^^ very good build for a do it all din and pvp!

[@GGMentor]

Nah, no grief, no exile, this build is designed around the Astreons, and hoz it also uses principle armor for HB procs.

[@devilcookie9924]

all similar gears but with Enigma, you can finish Uber Lilith, Izzy, Duriel, and Tristram in less than 5 minutes (of course it works in only P1)

[@blazedehart2748]

FotNS is one of the classics! Used to watch it on “AniMidnight” on the Encore channel!!

[@maxmustermann2819]

Love your D2 content. I'm building these thanks to you in current season (7). I bought a cheap +4 +55 Astreons, also have Umed HoZ, Dracs and Goblin Toe. Else I currently have viper magi, res and mf rings and amu, Torch and Anni. I used some IAS calculator. Are you sure you reach max speed? The calculators I used said you need lvl 36 Fana, then you only need 30IAS. With lvl34 (which you showed) it says you need 32IAS. I thought of putting a Shael in my Astreons, reach somehow lvl 36 Fana but then I'm wondering where I get the remaining 10IAS from and asl owhich helmet I shoud wear. At least for Ubers I thought GFace, maybe with 15/15 (but maybe very expensive).

[@GGMentor]

with Shael Rune in Astreons you will hit the Max Ias Breakpoint for Smite. If you don't have a shael in astreons you need two 15% ias jewels (30% Ias in a helmet, or maybe 1 in shield/helm.)

[@leejordan001]

This became my fav build.

[@mrdevious-o5j]

this build is my idea of a holy battle mage... its epic

[@jarredcarlson2479]

Might have to respec my nl smiter eventually! I don’t think I’m gonna be able to get a solid exile this ladder

[@KingoftheJiangl]

I threw a ber in the astreon's for another 20cb, which lets me wear war travs for the mf, and the little added damage it provides. Of course if I'm doing ubers, the gore riders/goblin toes come back on as mf does absofkngnothing for torch rolls :D

[@GGMentor]

Interesting, I like that option you could even run the ber rune and goblin toes for even more CB

[@KingoftheJiangl]

​@@GGMentor Yeah me too. If u have astreon's with ber, Guillaume, and gore riders you have 103%, so there's a bit of faster run if you're probably switching out enigma for fort or something

[@GGMentor]

@@KingoftheJiangl can't do gface and ber you lose that last speed break point

[@Bloodraw83]

Hi there Love the buld so far,but i run the attack speed calculator and it shows that i need 45 ias on the gear to reach max brakepoint.So i run a shael in the astreons and 15 ias on helm.

[@GGMentor]

Definitely hit that max ias breakpoint its big damage

[@Dawit49]

Eth thresher insight. Zod, ber azureth. Holy guide

[@martyjakob8611]

What did you eat before this record? Sounds punishing!

[@makstedi]

This looks really cool but I've got no access to any of these pieces. I've got a lvl 77 fohadin that has not beat hell running p1 pits, who i want to make into a hybrid smiter but lookinh for something wayyy more budget 😅

[@Lee-jn8zu]

I run foh, smite and hammers. Good hybrid build.

[@johnm.5774]

Can you do this build on budget gear with basically no high-end gear?

[@GGMentor]

Yes, I just did it on SSF P8 and killed ubers with it on the most budget gear ever. That SSF P8 Run Represents the most budget form that pretty much ever existed. It literally doesn't get more budget. kzbin.info/aero/PLMSHEYBEG_OM6OJopEV1msp9GUCqDz-WS

[@johnm.5774]

@@GGMentor Nice, thank you!

[@Theswazzer]

I seen your HOZ video. You aren’t lying finding a HOZ is definitely difficult

[@petartotev8250]

Is the weapon durability used when smiting instead of the shield durability?

[@GGMentor]

Weapon

[@JonathanMercure]

Pretty cool!

[@markodams5857]

Great build. Where the hell do you find astreons iron ward 😂

[@GGMentor]

I usually get it off traderie for cheap because people don't know what they have

[@markodams5857]

@@GGMentor ahh ok sweet cheers mate 👌🏻

[@markodams5857]

@@GGMentorI’m on Xbox most I see there are pc unfortunately 😢 I’m following your guide though brilliant thanks mate

[@GGMentor]

There are people who have both PC and Xbox that will broker trades, you could try my discord for some of them.

[@drfrisker]

how do you setup the spell bar at the bottom left?

[@GGMentor]

Go into the settings and enable quick skills and skill bar

[@tyrael64]

How do you get your smite to return to left click without having it keybound? :O

[@GGMentor]

The quick skills they added, it's in the options along with the bar

[@tyrael64]

Thank you!

[@Theswazzer]

After finding astreons iron ward I got the North Star to level 92. Only to have it die when my controller died. Doing an assassin and I’ll try North Star again when/if I find another astreons

[@GGMentor]

Lord I can't deal with that stuff, I use keyboard and mouse. I had a Bluetooth controller but I don't use that anymore due to the disconnect issues. I swapped over to a wired controller for Elden ring and the like.

[@Theswazzer]

@@GGMentor good strategy

[@terrylee8111]

Ginger what would be a good level to respect into this

[@GGMentor]

I leveled it up from level 1 lol, I did it on SSF P8 and didn't have any issues really with garbage tier equipment. Go check out my paladin SSF P8 Run. I killed P8 Ubers with trash gear running this build

[@terrylee8111]

Wow will do

[@your_eulogy2688]

Question; If im using demon machine or "fires explosive arrows/bolts" will I be able to proc lightning from wisp projector?

[@GGMentor]

Yes if you hit the target with a physical attack ranged or melee there is a chance to proc wisp

[@your_eulogy2688]

@GGMentor so AR definitely matters if I Wana proc the wisp but not the explosive arrows. Awesome, thanks man you're the best. Looking forward to more of these build highlight videos!

[@GGMentor]

@@your_eulogy2688 you need at on the Enchant sorc anyways. #1 you wanna hit for life leech #2 you wanna hit for mana leech #3 you wanna hit to proc stuff #4 you wanna hit for open wounds #5 you wanna hit for CB #6 you wanna hit for the 12k on hit fire damage that you don't get if you miss Not hitting isn't really an option tbh.

[@tpola3648]

They should make a unique charm that gives 1 to dragon flight, 15% increased physical damage, and -20 all res

[@whitekony1006]

I always wanted physical rainbow facets, worldstone shards,spikes and meteors, that provide 10% ow,ds, and cb respectively, with either up -5 percent enemy physical resist, or 2-5% ctc amp damage. I lean towards the latter,so many melee characters really need a source of amp and its so hard to come by.

[@tpola3648]

@@whitekony1006 Some phys charms would be a really good way to amp up melee damage but you would have to be very careful of power creep.

[@whitekony1006]

@@tpola3648 yeah,you're not wrong about that,melee could use alot of love without throwing amp everywhere haha. I like the splash damage approach that pd2 does quite a bit,I've been going down that rabbit hole alot lately and see more and more things I'd love to see in d2r. I know the complete skill table reworks will never happen and I doubt for all that I pray that uniques will ever get the rework they deserve, but a boy can hope for lil things... I think 2h weapons should be doing at least 25% more base damage in general,maybe a full 50,for just one example. As it stands it's almost always better,and not much less damage(especially w phoenix) to wear a shield or a second weapon. I still build 2h chars out of love but they often aren't anywhere close to competitive.

[@toomsx]

Hello, I'm new to the game, I really like the Paladin. How long could it take to find the weapon and the shield or can you build them? I only play offline, I don't have much time to play for long periods of time.

[@7H0R85]

well that will be kinda hard...

[@trenthudson9663]

I run same build. Foh cta in offhand.. grief exile main hand and gface. Chaos youd only need to clear with foh cta and switch to pure smite for diablo... but you can still foh out of pure smite set in a place like wsk2 with monster variety. Runs a enigma and can do ubers np with no tgods or gear swaps.

[@GGMentor]

Grief is a bad option for this build, you lose crushing blow, and you lose +4 skills which is a lot of damage. Then you gotta make up that crushing blow somewhere else and lose even more skills. Every skill point lost is lost damage, lost defense, lost block chance, and lost health. Astreon's is by far the better choice for this build. As it offers +4 skills, and 33% Crushing blow, with slows target, and it's fast enough to hit the ias breakpoint without needing additional gear. It also has some grief damage as well. The 33% CB on the weapon means you don't need to sacrifice other gear for crushing blow bonuses and can keep maximum plus to skills. Astreon's is far superior to grief for this build. And it also out damages grief in pure smiting with this build. Grief does nothing but handicap the Northstar Smiter

[@trenthudson9663]

I disagree I still have 85% cb with grief and because of the mechanics of foh it shreds just fine. Don't need to maximize its level to achieve the same results. An inventory of akiller gcs doest the trick fine.

[@JoshingX]

Where would I put my points if FOH is main and I use smite to kill Baal/boss? Which skill should I focus maxing out to get the most dmg for smite? I currently have 1 point defiance, 1 point fanaticism, 1 smite, 1 holy shield, 7 conviction,max holy shock, max holy bolt, max FOH. My gear gives +24. My smite doesn't do any dmg to Baal in Hell at the moment at level 25 (gear gives +24 skill).

[@GGMentor]

You're literally looking at the video that shows you precisely how to do that. The North Star Smiter is a full Powered FoH paladin & and Full powered Smiter. 20 FoH, 20 Holy Bolt, 20 Holy Shield, 20 fanaticism, 10 smite Use fanaticism as your main aura. Ignore the Lightning damage on FoH it sucks anyway. Ignore Conviction for FoH it's useless, as the on hit lightning damage is basically useless.

[@JoshingX]

The build you’re showing is Smite being main and avoids some of the synergies with FOH. I’m interested in your opinion on what skills to focus on maxing if FOH is the main. Of the skills to increase Smite, which would you focus on?

[@GGMentor]

Like I said the only synergies I avoid on FoH are the Lightning damage ones because they suck and are terrible for PvM. I feel like everything I said went right over your head

[@Ma10as_Phar]

Is it worth it doing pride for the merc? Just found the runes for it on ladder

[@GGMentor]

I don't personally like using pride because it makes the mercenary hit like a wet noodle. But it's very effective for like a summon druid or something of that nature

[@markodams5857]

I love the principal armour but must admit I miss teleporting, any options available?

[@GGMentor]

You can use enigma in place of the Principle armor you just won't get the Holy bolt spam. I personally never missed the Teleporting, I just charged everywhere. Due to the Meditation polearm on the merc for triple Regeneration, I also have basically infinite mana, and so I just Charge everywhere I want to go.

[@markodams5857]

@@GGMentor ahh sounds perfect. I’m gonna run with it charging too 👌🏻 cheers for the replies mate I’m relatively new to the game so a lot of learning but I’m following a lot of your content. Ty

[@itzzzsss]

I need to change my Paladin

[@Nah_Bohdi]

Why a Zod rune in it?

[@GGMentor]

Smite rips down durability of weapons very fast. Having an indestructible weapon is very nice because of this. As I go over in the video.

[@lbonvillain-wm4ds]

Is called a Vindicator Paladin “V/T”

[@GGMentor]

No it's called a North Star Smiter and I designed it =}

[@jdhigh2870]

What a purpose of builds with 0 MF? I tried on few great builds on SSF, with no MF, and the result is really bad. Need your thoughts.

[@GGMentor]

Most builds can squeeze in MF I talk about that at the end of the video. However 0 MF builds work great for lots of stuff. #1 Runes are unaffected by MF #2 Charms are unaffected by MF #3 Less MF means more base drops for runewords.

[@JB-th4bx]

​​@@GGMentor I've been wondering about this - would 0MF actually be more value/time than +x%MF? Blue magic items have no value (in all but a few cases) and rares are only slightly better. Meanwhile, there are tons of combinations of valuable bases. By not converting these to blues/rares, would you actually be dropping more value/time?

[@GGMentor]

@@JB-th4bx finding a Eth 4 Socket Superior 15% mancatcher is extremely valuable so yes.

[@Theswazzer]

For the hardcore players Holy fire through most of nightmare switch to hammers to get through the rest of nightmare than switch to this build build and just farm the heck out of the pits

[@Theswazzer]

Can’t beat the ancients with this build maybe you can I tried

[@GGMentor]

I ran this build SSF P8 all the way to Ubers. It's a solid build for leveling, end game or ubers. Obviously much more tanky with BiS equipment. But if I can run SSF P8 with this build I am sure Hardcore P1 would be easy

[@Theswazzer]

I didn’t have good smite gear for the ubers

[@TurboJusty]

This reallllly struggles with playuers 8 anything. A multitude of builds exist that far exceed this, for a fraction of the cost. "I can't show you p8" You can't actually.

[@kristopherleslie8343]

Its not imperceptible lol if your perceived it lol

[@GGMentor]

It was parsed, not perceived Someone had to use a tool to record the data to see the difference

[@kristopherleslie8343]

@@GGMentor all hail data!

[@kristopherleslie8343]

@@GGMentor all hail the data!

[@kristopherleslie8343]

@@GGMentor can’t lie it’s been one of my fav builds glad you designed it for us Smiter loving chaps

[@jesusmadriaga1449]

First

[@tpola3648]

Why tf did you zod that thing

[@atomic8815]

He explained it. Because he doesn't want to repair this thing all the time.

[@GGMentor]

​@@atomic8815not going back to town to repair all the time was worth it imo

[@tpola3648]

@@GGMentor Gotta find an eth one :p

[@Dawit49]

LUL a guide with zoded asteruz. Lul

[@GGMentor]

Your mom's a zodded astreon's

[@Theswazzer]

Act five nm now can’t find a 3 socket helmet for cure

[@GGMentor]

Any white u socketed helm can be rolled for sockets using the recipe. Max sockets on helms is also 3 so you could take a nice eth helm and larzuk it to 3

[@Theswazzer]

What terror zones do you guys use this in I’m guessing just do chaos if the tv isn’t good. Keep in mind I’m missing a lot of the plus to skills he mentions in the vid I’m at plus 11. Fifteen if I give up a lot of res. Which I don’t want to do. I can only die once

[@Theswazzer]

What is grief damage

[@GGMentor]

It's a specific form of + damage that comes in at a very weird point in the calculations. It sort of functions like +Min and +Max damage but it's not. It's made famous due to the runeword Grief, but Grief Damage is also Present on many other items like Astreons Iron Ward, Redeemer, ect.

[@Theswazzer]

@@GGMentor thanks playing hardcore ssf I’ll give this build a try. Leveling with holy fire at act five at the moment

[@Theswazzer]

Aaaaaaahhhhh I found it the caduceus in hell on hardcore pits rolled a 4!!!!!!!

[@Theswazzer]

45 grief though I hope that’s good looking it up now

[@Theswazzer]

Grief rolled kinda sucked

[@Theswazzer]

Shortly after plus five ethereal theesher. What would one use for that

[@GGMentor]

Obedience and grats on the caddy

[@Theswazzer]

@@GGMentorthank you been using the build mostly as a caster in hell because I’m not quite a North Star yet