In this post, you will find a handy Diablo 2 Resurrected Blessed Hammer Paladin Build cheat sheet. There are skills, attributes, important breakpoints, equipment, mercenary, and farming locations suitable for the Blessed Hammer Paladin Build.
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Skills
Maxing Skill order (reaching skill level 20):
Blessed Hammer > Blessed Aim > Concentration > Vigor > Holy Shield
Useful skills (put at least 1 point here):
Fanaticism, Redemption, Cleansing and Salvation.
Attributes
- Strength: Allows you to wear heavy weapons and armor, and increases the damage you deal with equipped weapon.
- Around 40-70 points for equipping gear, max required STR is 95 (War Traveler) or 103 (Archon Plate).
- Dexterity: Affects Attack Rating (your chance to hit) and Defense Rating (monster’s chance to hit player with physical attack). It also increases chance to block, allows to equip certain weapons (javelins, daggers, claws, and ranged) and their damage.
- Around 25-80 points (based on character level) for reaching max Block Chance (75%) with Holy Shield buff.
- Vitality: Increases the amount of Life and Stamina (yellow bar, energy for running) your character has.
- All other points (350+), for extra Life points.
- Energy: Determines the amount of Mana your character has.
- None, you’ll get enough mana from equipment.
Important Breakpoints
Breakpoints are the values at which spells, attacks and other animations become a frame faster or slower. Values must meet or exceed numbers to achieve that breakpoint or will cause no change until you meet or exceed the next breakpoint.
- Faster Cast Rate (FCR): 75% (10 Frames) or 125% (9 Frames)
- Increased Attack Speed (IAS): 0%
- Faster Hit Recovery (FHR): 48% (5 Frames) or 86% (4 Frames)
- Faster Block Rate (FBR): 0% (2 Frames from Holy Shield buff)
Equipment
Weapon
Alternatives:
Astreon’s Iron Ward
Spirit Runeword (Starter)
Shield
Sacred Targe
Alternatives:
Herald of Zakarum
Rhyme Runeword (Starter)
Helm
Alternatives:
Magic/Rare Circlet with +X to Paladin Skill Levels and Faster Cast Rate
Crown of Ages
Lore Runeword (Starter)
Tarnhelm (MF)
Body Armor
Mage Plate / Archon Plate
Alternatives:
Skin of the Vipermagi
Stealth Runeword (Starter)
Skullder’s Ire (MF)
Belt
Alternatives:
Rare Belt with Resistances
Goldwrap (MF)
Gloves
Alternatives:
Trang-Oul’s Claws
Chance Guards (MF)
Boots
Alternatives:
Sandstorm Trek
Waterwalk
Amulet
Alternatives:
Seraph’s Hymn
Crafted/Rare Amulet with +X to Paladin Skill Levels and Faster Cast Rate
Rings
Alternatives:
Rare Rings with Faster Cast Rate, Resistances, Life
Nagelring (MF)
Sockets
Alternatives:
Ist Rune (MF)
Charms
Additional:
Grand Charms with +1 to Combat Skills (extra stat as + to Life / Faster Hit Recovery is a great bonus)
Small Charms with Resistances (extra stat as + to Life / Faster Hit Recovery / Better Chance of Getting Magic Items is a great bonus)
Gheed’s Fortune (MF)
For swap weapon setup use Call To Arms Runeword Weapon with Spirit Runeword Shield for Battle Command and Battle Orders buffs, but don’t forget to recast them.
Mercenary
A player can hire NPCs as mercenaries to fight alongside them. Only one mercenary can be active at a time and hiring a new one results in the dismissal of the current one. Weapons (related to merc type), body armor, and headgear can be equipped on the mercenaries, and they become much more useful with proper gear.
Important note: Ethereal items (have better base stats, such as damage or defense and lower requirements) do not lose durability when equipped on a Mercenary, greatly boosting their stats.
Mercenary: Desert Mercenary (Act 2), Defense: Holy Freeze Aura.
- Weapon
- Best: Insight Runeword (Ethereal Giant Thresher or any other Polearm for starter)
- Alternatives: Any weapon with high Damage and Life Stolen Per Hit/Life
- Body Armor
- Best: Fortitude Runeword (Ethereal Sacred Armor)
- Alternatives: Any armor with high Defense and Resistances/Life
- Helm
- Best: Andariel’s Visage (Ethereal, with Increased Attack Speed jewel)
- Alternatives: Any helm with high Defense, Life Stolen Per Hit and Resistances/Life
Farming Locations
Below are mentioned good farming zones for this build, with less (or none) monsters’ immunity to main skills damage.
- Act I
- The Countess
- The Pit
- Andariel
- The Secret Cow Level
- Act II
- Arcane Sanctuary (Summoner)
- Act III
- Travincal
- Mephisto
- Act IV
- City of the Damned
- River of Flame
- Chaos Sanctuary
- Diablo
- Act V
- Eldritch the Rectifier
- Shenk the Overseer
- Drifter Cavern
- Nihlathak
- Worldstone Keep
- Throne of Destruction
We hope this post was useful to you and found the best ways to build your Blessed Hammer Paladin.