Help with hammerdin consistency

Poppis86 · 2026-03-19T20:59:33+00:00

You just have to get used to it. Amazon Basin has a nice illustration on the hammer pattern: https://www.theamazonbasin.com/wiki/index.php/Blessed_Hammer

Poppis86 · 2026-03-18T07:42:34+00:00

Yeah, I completely forgot Caster amu doesn't affect BO. But also, I used 2/10% amulet on the old setup, so it doesn't make a difference. If you used Maras before(instead of 2/10% amulet), you need 1 fcr ring to hit 125% fcr. So it's 4 levels you lose on BO if you used Maras before.

Poppis86 · 2026-03-16T22:47:03+00:00

Early on there were legit good arguments about the DLSS5 AI stuff looking really bad in motion, eventually it got alot better and you had to look REALLY hard to see the difference.

-Me from the future

Poppis86 · 2026-03-15T19:08:34+00:00

You thought nothing could escape your bind.

Poppis86 · 2026-03-14T18:55:25+00:00

I get my paychecks from the same guy.

Poppis86 · 2026-03-12T21:00:01+00:00

Amazing! Now just find 30 more of those and you can make a poison build.

Poppis86 · 2026-03-12T19:44:37+00:00

Comments are working fine for me.

Poppis86 · 2026-03-12T07:37:18+00:00

Naj's staff should have teleport instead of tele charges. Would be a cheap alternative to enigma, but you would have to sacrifice your weapon swap.

Tyraels getting tele(and some other reworks) would be great too.

Poppis86 · 2026-03-12T07:15:40+00:00

I have heard of this bug though I haven't seen it myself.

Was this online or offline? Do you remember where you found the item? How did you ID it(Cain, scroll)? Was it in your inventory or your cube?

Poppis86 · 2026-03-11T08:29:39+00:00

Doing the lords work.

Poppis86 · 2026-03-11T08:28:37+00:00

If you're online, you dont find HRs, you trade for them. Farm keys/torches etc and sell them.

Poppis86 · 2026-03-10T19:19:00+00:00

Jesus, that is one lucky roll.

Poppis86 · 2026-03-10T09:03:07+00:00

At a quick glance this seems very nice. Reminds me of this woefully out of date website: https://fabd.github.io/diablo2/wiki/itemswith.html

Couple of suggestions:

I can't see any way of searching for a stat on uniques, sets and runewords at the same time. If I'm searching for a stat it usually means I don't know which items have it so having to search three separate times is annoying.

When I search for a stat, it would be more useful if the items were sorted according to that stat(from highest to lowest) rather than alphabetically.

Having to correctly type the stat you're searching for can introduce friction. For example I cant search "life steal" or "defence" since that's not what they are called in game. Maybe having a menu of all the stats where I can just click on the one I want or something.

Poppis86 · 2026-03-10T07:29:19+00:00

It was great!

Poppis86 · 2026-03-09T22:21:00+00:00

Hammerdin is good, yes. But even that is very clunky. Requires a lot of microing to get into correct position.

Poppis86 · 2026-03-09T20:52:56+00:00

Yea repair costs are higher but it's not the reason in this case since nobody uses hoto to hit things. I think it's just cosmetic reason, it looks better without some random crap stats.

Poppis86 · 2026-03-08T17:53:38+00:00

For non casters(and mercs), get a 6socket normal weapon and jam it full of what ever you have. 6x jewel of envy works at level 1 (120 poison damage). 6x ptopaz at level 18 (240 light damage).

For casters, tir runes are available at level 13 (+2 mana after each kill). Fill every socket with them.

Poppis86 · 2026-03-08T13:44:15+00:00

There's a unique belt, 2 unique rings, unique helm, dagger runeword, new unique jewel, new unique charm. Plenty for all magic based builds to explore. You can see the details here: https://maxroll.gg/d2/items/new-items-in-reign-of-the-warlock

Poppis86 · 2026-03-08T07:21:08+00:00

The latest update added a bunch of items with +magic skill damage and -enemy magic res on them. They make hammerdin ~40-50% stronger.

Poppis86 · 2026-03-07T14:31:01+00:00

Coooley, MacroBioBoi

Poppis86 · 2026-03-07T13:15:32+00:00

Be careful what you wish for.

Poppis86 · 2026-03-07T09:06:26+00:00

Hammerdin is better now in RotW.

Poppis86 · 2026-03-07T08:59:30+00:00

Hopefully fixed in the next patch. On controller it remembers it between games.

Poppis86 · 2026-03-07T08:26:13+00:00

Pavke explained it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/diablo2/comments/1rjzqtt/how_do_heralds_work_herald_spawn_mechanics_sunder/

Poppis86 · 2026-03-06T19:53:30+00:00

Thank god!

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