

Your breakpoints decide how many frames it will take until you can attack/cast a skill/recover from a hit/ block a new hit. Note: Each second in the game consists of 25 frames or “ticks”. A Raven Frost ring can be useful to have Freeze Immunity. 4k life, 75% all resistances (up to 95 depending on gearing), 50% Physical Damage Reduction, 75% Block Rate, up to 30k Defense and additional elemental damage absorptions options are available. Playing Hardcore: Depending on your gear setup, you can become almost immortal on the expense of your damage output. If you have an Enigma and a Call to Arms, you will also be able to teleport and carry your party to any destination, and boost their life by casting Battle Orders. Playing in a party: You will be welcomed at parties, as you will be the damage dealer of the group, while you will also provide Concentration aura to your party members. You can run any magic find area, terror zones, superunique monster or act bosses comfortably. Hammers can often miss the targeted monster, the best way to always hit is to teleport on them. Playing solo: There are very few magic immune monsters, and those can be dealt with by using Holy Bolt as your attacking skill, or by having your Mercenary kill them.

Solo Baal or Chaos runs are doable within 3 minutes.With this build a Chaos Sanctuary run takes less than 2 minutes, while a Countess, Andariel, Summoner, Travincal, Mephisto, Nihlathak or an Eldritch+Shenk+Pindleskin run can be done within a minute. Hammerdins are ideal both for Terror Zone and Boss farming, only Sorceresses have faster teleportation speed. There are very few magic immune monsters in the game, and they can be killed by your mercenary. Playing a Hammerdin is relatively beginner friendly, and the combination of its clear speed and high magic find potential makes it one of the best, if not the best magic finding characters. It is capable of solo playing at player 8 difficulty, has very quick movement speed by teleport, and is a viable ladder starter as budget gearing options are available. The build is overpowered to say the least. In addition, it deals 150% damage to Undead monsters. For attacking, it uses the Blessed Hammer skill with Concentration Aura, dealing up to 16k magic damage per hammer. It excels at monster farming, magic finding, has great survivability and is Hardcore viable. The Hammerdin is amongst the most popular and efficient builds in the entire game.
