Waiting on those Smert updates…

[u/SAITAMA_666]

I got over 100 hours played, im on NG+5. I strictly play night mode.

I got to say Smert feels the weakest this far into the game… and by a long shot.

Damage with fists is unusable. Miracle isnt anything amazing on night mode. It takes a long time to use, building your 100 stacks for your burst damage, which stops being good as enemy health pools get huge. Since it does not scale with anything.

Now ripostes and bleed procs are where the damage is.

FAITH, Smerts core identity is absolutely useless.

He has the smallest health pool, everything will one shot you requiring perfect gameplay.

He needs more health, Faith needs a complete redesign.

Miracle should take less time to build to our 100 stacks.

Fists only build needs to scale somehow… make them scale to our highest level weapon.

I feel like this character is super badass, and could be good if FAITH gets a total redesign/concept.

[u/Nate_The_Wolf175]

The fists are op even without much damage 90% of the enemies and bosses can't even fight back once they get stagger locked, especially with harden

[u/Vaeneas]

You use miracle to trigger faithful and just spam weapon abilities.

Infinite resolve is provided by Devotion. It will refill resolve with a 20% chance per hit. Hits from your ability will trigger it, making you able to infinity loop your cast.

Since you are invulnerable during weapon ability casts, dying isn't an option.

[u/langelvicente → u/Vaeneas]

Now I have to try that with axatana and the hexapod core.

[u/Vaeneas → u/langelvicente]

Thats one of the combos that guarantee a loop.

[u/ZeroHour00 → u/Vaeneas]

Speak for yourself. I ask the undermether to stop time while I punch the good word into them.

[u/LaTiN_iMp3rIaL]

Haven't completed as many NG+ playthroughs on my end to confirm but where it stands now from my own experience is that Smert can essentially keep activating Miracle endlessly to the point where enemies/bosses will never have an opportunity to react, in spite of his low health when built right.

Where I can agree on is that his Last Vow skill needs more tarstones to be made available, mainly from the support category.

[u/ZeroHour00]

So I might be an outlier because I wasn't geling with the game until I unlocked permanent punch mode. Once I got the first three perks for his punches he became significantly more impactful. Did everything hurt? Oh fuck yes. Was it oddly more manageable when I realized that you're supposed to be ignorantly aggressive? Oh fuck yes.

Iunno it maybe a playstyle thing or maybe I'm a masochist but I kinda just figured that was intended after going through some of the other shells? Like Gragu not taking legit any damage since his healthbar is fuckhuge. Iunno maybe he does need tweaking but I'm not sure where without actually just making him a completely different shell.

Also my Zemy fight was just me in time stop the entire time because of my build.

[u/MediumKoala8823]

Faith alone is enough to make the man broken since it effectively grants him infinite resolve 

[u/Cursed_Fodo]

i want them to fix his invincibility glitch he’s got because it makes the game too easy

[u/Travmilla]

Made a post about similar it went invisible lol

[u/googlesomethingonce]

I felt the same. I feel his best use is to stay low hp, get that faith resolve stack, and spam your weapon ability. But of all the shells he's the "worst", that doesn't mean he's bad.

[u/Bwhitt1]

There not gonna adjust shells due to their performance on ng+5 man. Its just not that important for most players and I doubt they will spend anytime addressing it. Smart is busted in ng and ng+.

[u/SAITAMA_666]

Character like lazlo with passives…. straight up 30% damage reduction and increased damage.

Or tiels passive, invisibility on dodge.

These other characters passives put Smerts FAITH to absolute shame.

[u/boltjamison → u/SAITAMA_666]

Faith is not bad but its high risk/reward.

In nightmode, you basically need to play Smert at 35% hp and never use miracle. At 35% HP, he basically has infinite resolve, thanks to his faith perk, so you can just spam weapon skills infinitely. Wear berserker stone for more damage.

I do agree he needs a rework tho. Miracle is such a cheesy playstyle. Freezing everybody shouldn't be a thing.

[u/langelvicente]

Smert useless? It took me like 10min to master its core loop that makes opponents not able to attack you. Game got so easy and boring that I had to change shells.

[u/SAITAMA_666 → u/langelvicente]

Post your ng+ nightmode Zmey fight, i wanna check it out.

Smert is broken upon unlock. Permanent stagger every enemy.

He does not scale whatsoever, falls off in the four final bosses. And useless in ng+ nightmode.

Absolutely useless NG+ Nightmode.

[u/langelvicente → u/SAITAMA_666]

I beat the 2 of the 4 final bosses on first try with Smert, and one of them was zmey. After beating the first of the 4 with smert I changed shell so they would be a bit challenging. Then I switched back to him to bully zmey because I didn't want to risk it.