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: 14 hours 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: 13 hours ago

SizzleZap wrote: 14 hours 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

Semirotta wrote: 13 hours ago

SizzleZap wrote: 14 hours 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.

Yeah you'd have to find it on NM/Hell, but it's still a "Normal" base. I think you technically can find it in Normal cows, but not easily.

justinman114 wrote: 2 hours ago

Semirotta wrote: 13 hours ago

SizzleZap wrote: 14 hours 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.

Yeah you'd have to find it on NM/Hell, but it's still a "Normal" base. I think you technically can find it in Normal cows, but not easily.

Flails with iLvl 26-40 will get 4 sockets at

Larzuk, normal cows are lvl 28. You can also use the socket recipe for a 50% chance if you don't want to waste your

Larzuk quest on a

Flail.

As @vued correctly pointed out a

Flail with ilvl=26-40 will get 4 sockets from Lazurk.

Act4 Normal ranges from alvl=26-28. So any monster from Normal Act 4 will drop a

Flail that will get 4os from Lazurk.

Bloody Foothills in Act 5 has an alvl of 24 and

Frigid Highlands as an alvl of 25. Normal monsters and chests from those two areas cannot drop the desired

Flail but elite packs and bosses can. The rest of Normal A5 can drop the

Flail except for The

Worldstone Keep Level 3,

Throne of Destruction, and

Worldstone Chamber as their alvl is too high. Also certain bosses and elite packs could drop a

Flail with ilvl>40 if you are

Abaddon,

Pit of Acheron, or

Infernal Pit.

To guarantee a

Flail with ilvl=26-40 in Normal farm:
Cows
Anywhere in Act 4

Arreat Plateau

Crystalline Passage

Frozen River

Glacial Trail)

Drifter Cavern

Frozen Tundra

The Ancients' Way

Icy Cellar

Arreat Summit

Nihlathak's Temple

Halls of Anguish

Halls of Pain

Or buy one one here for 5 pgems and don't waste the Lazurk quest.
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Knappogue wrote: 1 hour ago

So any monster from Normal Act 4 will drop a

Flail that will get 4os from Lazurk.

Actually, monster levels on normal difficulty are not tied to the area level (on normal, all mob types have a fixed pre-determined level regardless of which area they appear in), and there are mobs in act 4 normal that are lower than level 26 regardless. One exampel is non-minion Doom Knight (which you can find in

Chaos Sanctuary, for example), they are only level 24. Many people have fallen into the trap of using a random

Crystal Sword (for example) from normal

Chaos Sanctuary and only gotten 3 sockets from

Larzuk - because they used one that dropped from a Doom Knight instead of an

Oblivion Knight (level 30), Venom Lord (level 30) or Storm Caster (level 30).
Flesh Spawner and Corpulent (both can appear in

Outer Steppes and

Plains of Despair) are also level 24.