Holy Hammerdin GR100+

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by Angry_Roleplayer last updated Oct 26, 2017 ( Patch 2.6.1 )

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Blessed Hammer Limitless
- Blessed Hammer
Cost: 10 Wrath

Summon a blessed hammer that spins around you, dealing 320% weapon damage as Holy to all enemies hit.
Limitless

When the hammer hits an enemy there is a 50% chance that a new hammer will be created at the location of the enemy hit. This can only occur once per hammer.
Falling Sword Part the Clouds
- Falling Sword
Cost: 25 Wrath
Cooldown: 30 seconds

Launch yourself into the heavens and come crashing down on your enemies, dealing 1700% weapon damage to everything within 14 yards of where you land.

This ability does not start its cooldown until after its effects expire.
Part the Clouds

You build a storm of lightning as you fall which covers the area you land on for 5 seconds. Lightning strikes random enemies under the cloud, dealing 605% weapon damage as Lightning and Stunning them for 2 seconds.
Iron Skin Flash
- Iron Skin
Cooldown: 30 seconds

Your skin turns to iron, absorbing 50% of all incoming damage for 4 seconds.
Flash

If you take damage while Iron Skin is active, your movement speed is increased by 60% for 5 seconds and you can move through enemies unhindered.
Provoke Too Scared to Run
- Provoke
Cooldown: 20 seconds
Generate: 30 Wrath

Taunt all nearby enemies and instantly generate an additional 5 Wrath for every enemy taunted. Taunted enemies will focus their attention on you for 4 seconds.
Too Scared to Run

Taunted enemies have their attack speed reduced by 50% and movement speed Slowed by 80% for 4 seconds.
Laws of Valor Unstoppable Force
- Laws of Valor
Cooldown: 30 seconds

Active: Empower the Law, granting you and your allies 15% increased Attack Speed for 5 seconds.

Passive: Recite the Law, granting you and your allies 8% increased Attack Speed.

Only one Law may be active at a time.
Unstoppable Force

Active: Empowering the law also reduces the Wrath cost of all skills by 50% for 5 seconds.
Akarat's Champion Prophet
- Akarat's Champion
Cooldown: 90 seconds

Explode with the power of your order, increasing your damage by 35% and increasing your Wrath regeneration by 5 for 20 seconds.
Prophet

Gain 150% additional Armor while Akarat's Champion is active.

The first time you take fatal damage while Akarat's Champion is active, you will be returned to full health.

Fervor
- Fervor
While wielding a one-handed weapon, your attack speed is increased by 15% and all cooldowns are reduced by 15%.
Finery
- Finery
Gain 1.5% Strength for every gem socketed into your gear.
Holy Cause
- Holy Cause
The amount of damage dealt by your weapon is increased by 10%.

Whenever you deal Holy damage, you heal up to 1% of your total Life.
Indestructible
- Indestructible
When you receive fatal damage, you instead become immune to damage, gain 35% increased damage and gain 107284 Life per Kill for 5 seconds.

This effect may occur once every 60 seconds.

Items

Crown of the Light

Set Helm

Primary Stats

+626–750 Strength
+4 Random Magic Properties
Empty Socket

Seeker of the Light
Crown of the Light
Mountain of the Light
Heart of the Light
Towers of the Light
Foundation of the Light
Will of the Light
(2) Set: Every use of Blessed Hammer that hits an enemy reduces the cooldown of Falling Sword and Provoke by 1 second.
(4) Set: You take 50% less damage for 8 seconds after landing with Falling Sword.
(6) Set: Increase the damage of Blessed Hammer by 1250% and Falling Sword by 500%.
Mountain of the Light

Set Shoulders

Primary Stats

+416–500 Strength
+91–100 Resistance to All Elements
+4 Random Magic Properties

Seeker of the Light
Crown of the Light
Mountain of the Light
Heart of the Light
Towers of the Light
Foundation of the Light
Will of the Light
(2) Set: Every use of Blessed Hammer that hits an enemy reduces the cooldown of Falling Sword and Provoke by 1 second.
(4) Set: You take 50% less damage for 8 seconds after landing with Falling Sword.
(6) Set: Increase the damage of Blessed Hammer by 1250% and Falling Sword by 500%.
The Traveler's Pledge

Set Amulet

Primary Stats

+626 - 750 Strength
+626 - 750 Dexterity
+626 - 750 Intelligence
Critical Hit Damage Increased by 51 - 100%

Endless Walk
The Traveler's Pledge
The Compass Rose
(2) Set: While moving, damage taken is reduced by up to 50%.
While standing still, damage dealt is increased by up to 100%.

+ 4 Random Magic Properties
Heart of the Light

Set Chest Armor

Primary Stats

+416–500 Strength
+4 Random Magic Properties
Empty Socket

Seeker of the Light
Crown of the Light
Mountain of the Light
Heart of the Light
Towers of the Light
Foundation of the Light
Will of the Light
(2) Set: Every use of Blessed Hammer that hits an enemy reduces the cooldown of Falling Sword and Provoke by 1 second.
(4) Set: You take 50% less damage for 8 seconds after landing with Falling Sword.
(6) Set: Increase the damage of Blessed Hammer by 1250% and Falling Sword by 500%.
Gabriel's Vambraces

Legendary Bracers

Primary Stats

Critical Hit Chance Increased by 1.5–2.0%
+3 Random Magic Properties

Secondary Stats

When your Blessed Hammer hits 3 or fewer enemies, 75–100% of its Wrath Cost is refunded.
One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

+24–29 Dexterity

+24–29 Strength

+24–29 Intelligence
Will of the Light

Set Gloves

Primary Stats

+626–750 Strength
Critical Hit Chance Increased by 8.0–10.0%
+4 Random Magic Properties

Seeker of the Light
Crown of the Light
Mountain of the Light
Heart of the Light
Towers of the Light
Foundation of the Light
Will of the Light
(2) Set: Every use of Blessed Hammer that hits an enemy reduces the cooldown of Falling Sword and Provoke by 1 second.
(4) Set: You take 50% less damage for 8 seconds after landing with Falling Sword.
(6) Set: Increase the damage of Blessed Hammer by 1250% and Falling Sword by 500%.
Sacred Harness

Legendary Belt

Primary Stats

+4 Random Magic Properties

Secondary Stats

Judgment gains the effect of the Debilitate rune and is cast at your landing location when casting Falling Sword.
One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

+49–60 Dexterity

+49–60 Strength

+49–60 Intelligence
Towers of the Light

Set Pants

Primary Stats

+416–500 Strength
+4 Random Magic Properties
Empty Socket

Seeker of the Light
Crown of the Light
Mountain of the Light
Heart of the Light
Towers of the Light
Foundation of the Light
Will of the Light
(2) Set: Every use of Blessed Hammer that hits an enemy reduces the cooldown of Falling Sword and Provoke by 1 second.
(4) Set: You take 50% less damage for 8 seconds after landing with Falling Sword.
(6) Set: Increase the damage of Blessed Hammer by 1250% and Falling Sword by 500%.
Foundation of the Light

Set Boots

Primary Stats

+416–500 Strength
+416–500 Vitality
+4 Random Magic Properties

Seeker of the Light
Crown of the Light
Mountain of the Light
Heart of the Light
Towers of the Light
Foundation of the Light
Will of the Light
(2) Set: Every use of Blessed Hammer that hits an enemy reduces the cooldown of Falling Sword and Provoke by 1 second.
(4) Set: You take 50% less damage for 8 seconds after landing with Falling Sword.
(6) Set: Increase the damage of Blessed Hammer by 1250% and Falling Sword by 500%.
The Compass Rose

Set Ring

Primary Stats

+416 - 500 Strength
+416 - 500 Dexterity
+416 - 500 Intelligence

Endless Walk
The Traveler's Pledge
The Compass Rose
(2) Set: While moving, damage taken is reduced by up to 50%.
While standing still, damage dealt is increased by up to 100%.

+ 4 Random Magic Properties
Obsidian Ring of the Zodiac

Legendary Ring

Primary Stats

Ignores Durability Loss
Reduces cooldown of all skills by 4 - 7%.
Attack Speed Increased by 5 - 6%
Critical Hit Chance Increased by 4.5 - 6%
Reduces all resource costs by 5 - 7%.

Secondary Stats

Reduce the remaining cooldown of one of your skills by 1 second when you hit with a resource-spending attack.

+ 1 Random Magic Properties
Johanna's Argument

Legendary Flail

Primary Stats

+36–44 Strength
+3 Random Magic Properties

Secondary Stats

Increase the attack speed and damage of Blessed Hammer by 100%.
One of 7 Magic Properties (varies)

+(6–7)–(8–9) Arcane Damage

+(6–7)–(8–9) Poison Damage

+(6–7)–(8–9) Lightning Damage

+(6–7)–(8–9) Holy Damage

+(6–7)–(8–9) Cold Damage

+(6–7)–(8–9) Fire Damage

+(6–7)–(8–9) Damage
Guard of Johanna

Legendary Crusader Shield

Primary Stats

+36–44 Strength
+4 Random Magic Properties

Secondary Stats

Blessed Hammer damage is increased by 200–250% for the first 3 enemies it hits.

More Details

Head
- Crown of the Light
- Stat Priority: CHC Skill: Hammer Str LOH
Shoulders
- Mountain of the Light
- Stat Priority: CDR AD Life
Amulet
- The Traveler's Pledge
- Stat Priority: Holy % CHD CHC
Torso
- Heart of the Light
- Stat Priority: Life Reduced Elite Dmg
Wrists
- Gabriel's Vambraces
- Stat Priority: Holy % CHC LOH
Hands
- Will of the Light
- Stat Priority: Str Vit CDR
Waist
- Sacred Harness
- Stat Priority: Life AR
Legs
- Towers of the Light
- Stat Priority: Str AR Vit
Feet
- Foundation of the Light
- Stat Priority: Skill: Hammer Str AR
Rings
- The Compass Rose
- Obsidian Ring of the Zodiac
- Stat Priority: CHD CHC CDR
Weapon
- Johanna's Argument
- Stat Priority: LOH Dmg % CDR
Offhand
- Guard of Johanna
- Stat Priority: CHC CDR

Legendary Gems
- Bane of the Stricken
  Bane of the Stricken
  
  Gem
  
  Secondary Stats
  
  Each attack you make against an enemy increases the damage it takes from your attacks by 0.8%.
- Bane of the Trapped
  Bane of the Trapped
  
  Gem
  
  Secondary Stats
  
  Increase damage against enemies under the effects of control-impairing effects by 15%.
- Gogok of Swiftness
  Gogok of Swiftness
  
  Gem
  
  Secondary Stats
  
  Gain Swiftness with every attack, increasing your Attack Speed by 1% and Dodge by 0.5% for 4 seconds. This effect stacks up to 15 times.

Kanai's Cube

Faithful Memory

Legendary Two-Handed Sword

Primary Stats

+(13–16)–(16–20) Holy Damage
+3 Random Magic Properties

Secondary Stats

Each enemy hit by Falling Sword increases the damage of Blessed Hammer by 50–60% for 10 seconds. Max 10 stacks.
One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

+68–83 Strength

+68–83 Intelligence

+68–83 Dexterity
Faithful Memory
Hammer Jammers

Legendary Pants

Primary Stats

+3 Random Magic Properties

Secondary Stats

Enemies take 300–400% increased damage from your Blessed Hammers for 10 seconds after you hit them with a Blind, Immobilize, or Stun.
Empty Socket
One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

+85–108 Dexterity

+85–108 Strength

+85–108 Intelligence
Hammer Jammers
Convention of Elements

Legendary Ring

Primary Stats

Critical Hit Chance Increased by 4.5–6.0%
+2 Random Magic Properties

Secondary Stats

Gain 150–200% increased damage to a single element for 4 seconds. This effect rotates through the elements available to your class in the following order: Arcane, Cold, Fire, Holy, Lightning, Physical, Poison.
Empty Socket
One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

+220–349 Dexterity

+220–349 Strength

+220–349 Intelligence
Convention of Elements

Gems = All diamonds except weapon of cause.

Listed here is a MAXIMUM DPS setup to push highest rank possible. Toughness of crusader comes from high armor and massive recovery. However, if you are not augmented, you will be lacking armor, and so, very squishy. Don't you worry though, we can compensate it with Unity.

This way you are instantly doubling your damage reduction.

WEAPONS:

1)if you don't have both Faithful Memory AND Furnace, you can temporary use Akkhan's Addendum in cube and switch to Hasteful rune for more wrath recovery/extra speed. But in my opinion it's not worth it. Getting Faithful Memory ASAP is much more important. Second best option is good old Furnace.

2) If you don't have a good Johanna's Argument, but have a really good AKANESH, THE HERALD OF RIGHTEOUSNESS or SKYCUTTER, you can equip any of these and have Johanna in cube. This way you will boost your holy damage, and partially compensate a loss of Faithful Memory.

Legendary Gems:

The only decent option is to use Esoteric instead of Gogok. But you need a lot of CDR to keep Prophet up all the time.

Paragon Priorities

Core

Movement Speed
Primary Stat
Vitality
Maximum Resource

Offense

Cooldown Reduction
Critical Hit Damage
Critical Hit Chance
Attack Speed

Defense

Life
Resist All
Armor
Life Regeneration

Utility

Life on Hit
Resource Cost Reduction
Area Damage
Gold Find

Speed->stat

CDR-> chd/chc

all res->life

loh->rcr->area damage

Build Guide

In 2.6.1 the build became much stronger with neary doubled damage.

Hammerdin was a king of season 4 and one of the most powerful builds in Diablo 2 as well. I am glad it is still good! And not only good, but actually very powerful.

GENERAL TIPS:

1) Allres is VERY important for Crusader.

2) As much CDR as possible.

3) For life recovery: Life on Hit on BRACERS, Life per Wrath spent on SHIELD or weapon. If you have over 50% CHC, you can also have Life on Hit on helm, gloves or rings. If you have Life Per Wrath spent on weapon, i strongly recommend to run Unstoppable Force rune. Much smoother.

4) Weapon is pretty much the HIGHEST DPS you can find, with life on hit or CDR (LoH is more important).

5) High CDR = your second life with permanent Akarath's Champion "Prophet" rune.

6) The build has high damage and toughness against single target, but very squishy against multiple enemies.

7) You need to cast Falling Sword every 8 seconds to proc damage reduction of 4pc bonus.

8) Hammers Jammers are being procced mostly by the belt. When you land with Falling Sword the belt casts Judgement and immobilizes enemies for 6 seconds AND applies a powerful -40% Debilitate debuff. You can use Flurry FS rune as well, but i prefer the stun rune at all times, cause immobilize and stun are different "control imparing effects",and it's important against powerful mobs who quickly develop immunity, like RG.

Overall, what rune you use: Rapid Descent, Part of the Clouds or Flurry = does not matter. They are all good.

9) Falling Sword damage is pathetic and is not to be considered at all.

10) Most wrath recovery comes from constant uptime of Provoke and Unstoppable Force.

11) Always try to stand in Oculus ring. Jump in there with Falling Sword, if you can't reach it by foot.

12) You can try the Critical rune of the Law for maximum damage. For TOP clear you will most likely need it (this is what was used for highest clear on top of the LBs)

13) In 2.4.3 new Juggernaut elite affix is introduced. It cann be immobilized/stunned/affected by any CC, so you cannot proc Hammers Jammers, Bane of the Trapped does not work, etc etc... And you do pathetic damage to this type of elite. DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME! Skip all Juggernauts.

14) Always fight in density and watch your Faithful Memory stacks, do not fight trash if stacks below <5. Drag elites to trash mobs.

15) Since we switch Furnace to Faithful Memory - single elites and especially single Rift Guardians will take TWICE MORE time to kill now. Also keep in mind that Rift Guardians CANNOT BE IMMOBLIZED, so that's why it takes a lot of time to kill them. Your ideal situation is to make huge progress across the rift and also be lucky with an RG like Saxtris or Hamelin.

SKILL OPTIONS:

One of the biggest problems with Hammerdin is it's squishiness. It's quite fragile, and playing without a huge pool or armor and augments can be a pain, especially in higher grifts where even recovery does not help at times. Like i mentioned above, using Unity is the first and best option to improve toughness. And the rest of tougness comes from different skills.

1) Invincible instead of Critical/Unstoppable Force. Massive Life on Hit gained

2) Laws of Justice - Decaying Strength instead of Critical/Unstoppable Force. Massive -60% debuff. Along with Debilitate you will have a -100% debuff.

3) Provoke - Cleanse, even more Life on Hit.

4) Iron Skin - Steel Skin, even longer damage reduction

PASSIVE OPTIONS:

1) Wrathful instead of Holy Cause. Will give you a tonn of recovery, especially if you have a lot of Globe bonus and don't have Life per Wrath spent somewhere else.

2) Blunt instead of Holy Cause. About 8-10% more damage, but you are losing that 1% life recovery. Good choice if you already have a tonn of recovery stacked.

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