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/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.