Originally Posted by Pupito
I wanna see how Larian handles smites, since if I remember correctly you choose whether to smite or not once you know the attack is actually going to hit, correct? Which means that unless they do some kind of toggle thing where it always applies smites on hit or doesn't apply them at all, or go the Solasta route and ask whether you want to smite or not during the attack, we're going to have a smite icon on the already too crowded hot bar that we have to select which then gets wasted if we miss which is going to be incredibly stupid.

I found a light hammer with smite. For this item it is an icon on the hot bar, it is used whether it hits or not, and uses your entire action.

I think they are going to do it like they did battle maneuvers. Click the icon and attack. The smite won’t burn the slot unless the attack hits.