The divine smite is so pleasing to hear and watch

[Amplifier]

The bright glowing sword.... the BOOM! sound that follows, the enemy shuddering apart upon impact, the 80+ damage that pops up.

It's just glorious. I never used the thunder smite and flaming smite (or whatev you call it) since all these others were just plain useless.

[Kappa]

Originally posted by OK:

since all these others were just plain useless.

Raphael is amused

[Amplifier]

Originally posted by Kappa:

Originally posted by OK:

since all these others were just plain useless.

Raphael is amused

You can also divine the smite f*** out of him after you bring down those 4 pillars

[Detective Costeau]

I have to agree about the smite being incredibly satisfying. My first run was a half-orc vengeance paladin, and the crits from them were always hilarious. 3d8+9d8 damage is fun!

[IRMcG]

Not so much fun when a bunch of Absolute paladins use it on you :P

[AokiYakumo]

Real talk tho, Thunderous Smite and Blinding Smite are both CRAZY good in the right scenarios.

Thunderous Smite combos really well with a Reverb build, as well as any area control you have set up (to knock a b*tch back into a Hunger of Hadar, for example). It's also good for inflicting fall damage or for yeeting things off a cliff you couldn't otherwise yeet.

Blinding Smite, well, blinds a target. This can be clutch for denying line-of-sight effects, imposing attack disav., or generating attack adv. (which, PLD, they love attack adv. for the increased CRIT Rate).

Not a smite per say, but Ensnaring Strike's also great for DoT, generating adv., imposing DEX save disadv. (which is huge for a good number of spells), and movement denial.

Banishing Smite's just a screen-nuke. BG3 also lacks some of the faculties to really make it pop the f*ck off (Eldritch Smite, Orcish Fury, that sort of CRIT DMG boosting stuff).