Question about blessed hammer

I found a 3os

Caduceus with +2

Blessed Hammer and thought about making it into a Lawbringer and using that in a hammerdin

Would that be an effective weapon, ie does Sanctuary work with blessed hammers?

Hi, fellow Mike.
Yes, you would get the

Sanctuary Aura, but that's it. Most of the other stats are dead since you don't hit with the Lawbringer. A plain Spirit sword or a Hoto would be better.

But maybe there are some very special cases, (Tombs?) where the aura alone might be worth it, especially if you don't have a magic sunder and don't want to fight the magic immune mummies.

Can't say I've ever actively tried it (ewww, hammerdin!) but realistically,

Sanctuary Aura should not only not be all too helpful for a hammerdin, it'd actually be counterproductive.

When you go about throwing hammers at stuff, you want all of that stuff to be running towards you so as to get hit asap so you can move on. Or at the very least make the further out stuff walk into range of the max hammer radius so you don't have to reposition and cast even more.

Sanctuary Aura would very much counteract that as the knockback would repeatedly push stuff out of your hammer range, meaning you need to go chase down your knockable targets and waste more time on individual hammering.

Plus everything else on Lawbringer is kind of pointless for a hammerdin as well so...I'd opt to go for a more suitable and beneficial weapon choice instead.

Sanctuary Aura is amazing in some situations (like for poor summoner druid or

Blade Fury on swap) but can be bad in other (merc with 2*Lawbringer can push out of reach seal boss in

Chaos Sanctuary).
Sanctuary is nice when you meet dolls or souls.

Heart of the Oak in a boring 4os

Flail from normal because lower requirements and who cares about anything else for a caster?

The budget option is Spirit usually in a 4os

Crystal Sword for the same reasons as above!

At least until you find a

Vex (or craft it from 2

Gul you got from

The Hellforge quest in Hell)

HOTO is incredibly powerful for how relatively easy it is to achieve. I have 2 already on single player offline and I barely even play that much at all anymore!

Note the FCR break points are important for slinging hammers ... basically you want 75% (easy) minimum or 125% maximum (hard)!

SizzleZap wrote: 1 hour ago

Heart of the Oak in a boring 4os

Flail from normal because lower requirements and who cares about anything else for a caster?

The budget option is Spirit usually in a 4os

Crystal Sword for the same reasons as above!

At least until you find a

Vex (or craft it from 2

Gul you got from

The Hellforge quest in Hell)

HOTO is incredibly powerful for how relatively easy it is to achieve. I have 2 already on single player offline and I barely even play that much at all anymore!

I thought you need to find nm/hell

Flail to get 4 sox? at least cant remember dropping flails 4 sox early on in normal.

Semirotta wrote: 1 hour ago

SizzleZap wrote: 1 hour ago

Heart of the Oak in a boring 4os

Flail from normal because lower requirements and who cares about anything else for a caster?

The budget option is Spirit usually in a 4os

Crystal Sword for the same reasons as above!

At least until you find a

Vex (or craft it from 2

Gul you got from

The Hellforge quest in Hell)

HOTO is incredibly powerful for how relatively easy it is to achieve. I have 2 already on single player offline and I barely even play that much at all anymore!

I thought you need to find nm/hell

Flail to get 4 sox? at least cant remember dropping flails 4 sox early on in normal.

I am pretty sure I got some reasonable cheap seats bases from Cow Level on Normal but by the time you got HR you are playing in Hell anyway usually. It never hurts to pick up a gray

Monarch or take a peek at anything that might be a good base for runewords during any play through ... you can find multiple 15% ED Ethereal base armors with 4os long long before you find a spare

Lo rune to give your mercenary stellar Fortitude for example