Shins step by step Hammerdin

[Enigma]

I Did Not Write This Guide, Shinchib did, if he wants to overwrite my post thats fine, until then i will host his guide

Introduction
The equipment required for this build is pretty godly, a lot overlap Tony's guild, but mine has more of a "step by step" appoarch.

This Guide is divided into 4 sections, Equipment, Stats, Skills then the Step by Step section.

Equipment:

Helm: Um'ed or Ber'ed Shako

Ammy: Maras

Weapon: Hoto, try to get at least 35% all rez on it.

Shield: Um'ed Hoz or Eth Zod'ed Hoz

Armor: Mage Plate Enigma

Gloves: Upped Magefists

Rings: 2xSOJ / 1xSOJ + 1xBK, its your choice, personally i'd go for 2xSOJ

Belt: Arachnid Belt

Boots: Travs (45% mf or higher) for the MF, your other options are treks.

As your secondary, a Crystal Sword CTA and any spirit pally shield with any fcr.
The reason I picked a Crystal Sword is because usually Hotos are flails, and if your CTA is a crystal sword, you will see a blue sword when you switch to it, so you dont have to check if you are using your primary or secondary.

Your inventory should consist of 20 life scs, offensive pally GCs, Combat pally GCs, Pally Torch, and Anni.
This guild has not taken anni into consideration. Another option instead of Pally Torch is to have a 20 attribute Any Class Torch, just to save yourself a few points that you would have had to put into strength.


Stats:

Strength: NONE! You dont need any strength at all! Since you have Mage Plate Enigma, you only need 55 str to use it! Since pallys start with 25 str, just wait til you put on mara, torch and anni to gain the extra 30 str.

Dexterity: 73 points at level 80, if you are higher than level 80, check out this 75% caculator:
http://www.baronsbazaar.invisionzone...lock_calc.html

Vitality: Once you have the right amount of stats in dex, the rest go here.

Energy: None


Skills:

Combat Skills
1 - Smite
1 - Holy Bolt
1 - Charge
20 - Blessed Hammer
20 - Holy Shield

Offensive Aura
1 - Might
20 - Blessed Aim
20 - Concentration

Defensive Aura
1 - Prayer
1 - Cleansing (good for after combat curse time reduction/poison reduction)
1 - Defiance
20 - Vigor
1 - Redemption

All these skills added together make up 108 skill points. With all the skill quests completed and when your character reachs level 99, you will have 2 skill points left over. If you have gotten do this point, by all means... put these 2 skill points into whatever you want, i would recommend 2 more points in Defiance.


Step by Step
To follow along with this step by step, you basically need to have the same equipment that I have used for this guild, that is the only catch.

First few levels
Put all of your stat points in dex until it gets to 73 (I have taken into account that you will have a +20 to attributes Ptorch)

Skills:
(order does not matter)
1 to Smite
1 to Holy Bolt
1 to Might
1 to Prayer
1 to Defiance
Save the rest.

First Marker
LEVEL 12:

Stats:
You should now have enough points into dex. From now on, all of your points are going into vitality.

Skills:
1 to Cleansing
1 to Charge
Start putting points into Blessed Aim until it has 6 skill points in it (until you reach level 18)

Second Marker
LEVEL 18:

Skills:
1 to Vigor
From now on, all your skill points will go into Blessed Hammer and Concentration.
I would recommend putting 1 point into Blessed Hammer, and put the rest into Concentration because the mana cost is very high for hammers at such a low level.

Third Marker
LEVEL 24:

Skills:
Take a break from putting points in Hammers and Concentration.
Put 1 point into Holy shield, now continue with Hammers and Concentration once again.

Third Marker
LEVEL 29:

Equip:
Equip your 2 SOJS! Your first piece of godly equipment has been... well... equipped

Forth Marker
LEVEL 30:

Skills:
Take a break from maxing Hammers and Concentration.
1 to Redemption
Continue maxing Hammers and Concentration.

Fifth Marker
LEVELS 45-57

Skills:
You should now have maxed out Hammers and Concentration.
Start maxing Vigor then Blessed Aim.

Sixth Marker
LEVEL 67:

Equip:
Mara

Seventh Marker
LEVEL 70:

Equip:
Anni

Eighth Marker
LEVEL 75:

Equip:
Pally Torch
Enigma
Shako
Travs
UM'ed or Eth Zod'ed Hoz
Hoto
Upped Magefists
CTA
Low Pally Spirit

Nineth Marker
LEVEL 80:

Equip:
Arach

Last Marker
Continue leveling up and keep an eye out for your 75% block rate to decrease, add 1 point to dex and continue process until block rate is at 75%.

Also, once you have maxed out Blessed Aim and Vigor, add the rest of your points to Holy Shield.

*END NOTE* If you don't understand some of the D2 "lingo" like travs etc. PM me and with the "lingo" you do not understand and i'll elaborate on it.

Thanks to Tony for the style format

[JGSkpx0389]

thx for the fast upload of this guide. great guide

[Belhemel]

Ddue seriously this was a sticky so I am pretty sure it will be up soon.

[Enigma]

If shinchib comes back, ill host for him till then tho, cause this guide is so good

[Pookie]

This guide is a little hard to read.. Maybe you should use different colors on the text? .. Just a improvment suggestion.. :)

[saracen85]

imo this hammerdin's a bit too expensive/mechanical for my taste to be regarded as a step-by-step approach. maybe some other alternatives (especially cheaper ones) to the gear already listed?

plus, "markers" only reflect end-game gear and not gear used for leveling

some gear suggestions/alternatives..

wizardspike/suicide branch/spirit swords that are easier to acquire and accessible in earlier levels as compared to a hoto. the wizzy is a godly caster weapon. what you lose in +skills is regain by extra fcr, mana, resists, so it's totally worth it.

stealth armor. once your level 18, this is the caster armor of choice. plus, you'll run faster as well. skin of vipermagi, great for leveling and great for end-game as well. more fcr to get to the 125 bp..

these are the few that's on top of my head.. =)

[ce balo]

Very **** Gudie All Hdin Gudies Are The Same

[Pookie]

No, this is a step by step guide. Not all hdin guides are like that.

[ce balo]

yea it is read fool use ur eyes gg tyty

[Pookie]

Punctuation ftw.

[CiRRuZ]

always had trouble building my h-din's... in terms of stats... this seems perfect to me, already have all the gear, most of it perfect... tyvm im lvl 52, using no gear and already hitting 1.2k hammer dmg w/ almost 1k life.. cant wait till i put my equipt on

[GalenDoUrden]

What I would like Shin to do is update this guide with PvP strategies. However, I'm not sure if he duels with his hammer or not.

Next time I talk to him, I'll mention it.

[SkEpTiKaL]

Yay! So glad to see that my favorite guide is back. Speaking of Shin, anyone know if he's back on the forum or not?

[Wallenberg]

Sweet guide :)

[Dlav123]

u should stop posting other peoples guides

[Todd]

Your inventory should consist of and Anni.
This guild has not taken anni into consideration.


Stats:

Strength: NONE! You dont need any strength at all! Since you have Mage Plate Enigma, you only need 55 str to use it! Since pallys start with 25 str, just wait til you put on mara, torch and anni to gain the extra 30 str.


Mmm a little odd eh?

[Immortal_Daemon]

Not odd at all.

He says you should have one, but this particular build doesn't take one into account.


Meaning if you add an anni, it's 100% bonus.

[Belhemel]

Yay! So glad to see that my favorite guide is back. Speaking of Shin, anyone know if he's back on the forum or not?

Ya I have seen him post unless someone took his name but pretty sure it's him.

[Wrongbow]

I always wondered about this, but when you say 75% Block, do you go with the block it says on the shield stats, or do you go with what it says on the stats screen?

[Immortal_Daemon]

You hover your mouse over "defense" on your character screen, and it'll tell you your percent to block.

You want it to be at 75%

[MadMardegan]

With the one it says on the stat screen. I followed this guide step-by-step. Had it open in the backround while I played and lvl'd like it says and everything and I have to say its amazing. My hammerdin does 13k dmg (can't afford pcombat gcs. I play NL and they are worth like 2 hrs plain...its crazy. Oh and I only have 1 soj...again can't afford one), has 3k life, max block, full resists in hell and about 105% fcr. Can solo hell pretty easily.

[Immortal_Daemon]

With the one it says on the stat screen. I followed this guide step-by-step. Had it open in the backround while I played and lvl'd like it says and everything and I have to say its amazing. My hammerdin does 13k dmg (can't afford pcombat gcs. I play NL and they are worth like 2 hrs plain...its crazy. Oh and I only have 1 soj...again can't afford one), has 3k life, max block, full resists in hell and about 105% fcr. Can solo hell pretty easily.

You, my friend, are getting ripped off.

I got hacked and had to start from scratch, and I already have 3 perm sojs, as well as full Hdin and Smiter gear (not top-tier gear. But decent stuff).


You just gotta know where to look. ;)

[MadMardegan]

You, my friend, are getting ripped off.

I got hacked and had to start from scratch, and I already have 3 perm sojs, as well as full Hdin and Smiter gear (not top-tier gear. But decent stuff).


You just gotta know where to look. ;)


No...everyone charges 2 hrs for either pcombat and soj on NL. Its the recognised price. No one will go lower. It's because NL is flooded with hrs from previous ladder seasons so they are worth a lot less! Like, the other day I saw a game called "N Dracs O Ber"! There is just no way I could afford 2hrs per gc.

[Immortal_Daemon]

Have you tried JSP?

I don't even bother trading in-game anymore. JSP is much easier and more trustworthy.

[cthulhu dawn127]

this is my all time favorite guide i used it step by step to make my hammerdin its so good thank you for reposting it and you guys must be on west right? because on East NL a plain pcomb goes for 5-6 hrs haha

[Leetus]

i see everyone is saying that this is the greatest guide. but i didnt see in your "godly build" item setup any item that provied the cannot be frozen mode which in my opinion is important especialy for baal. another thing is how this guide is written. the author thinks that everyone who reads this guide can get a 20 skill pala torch, or maybe he just wants to show off, to show others that he made this guide for himself. isnt this supposed to be a guide ? werent guides supposed to be for newbies/noobs/newcomers/people that dont have all of the items he is saying in his guide . he says that the only catch to this guide is to have all the items he wrote, but how many players can get a 20 skill pala torch/ maras/ 2 sojs etc. not gonna write the items since its pointless. who ever gets so many rare items wouldnt even need to read this guide. of course its not imposibble to get a 20 skill pala t and thee other items, but it is not easy either, unless you buy the items, get them for free, use a bot, dupe, etc. there are many ways , but all i can say is again he made this guide to show off. to show to others his hamemrdin's equipment, even if he's not doing this directly, he's doing it indirectly by having a pretext of a "guide" .

he is not stating in his guide any low level item options ( used while leveling ), he is not stating if he would be rushed, or if he would use baal glitch quest and then level in uber trist. all i m saying this is a poor guide i d give it a 2/10 because its not actually a guide, i m not saying making a guide is easy, but i dont understand why some people here ( most ) think this guide is so good...

[Landau14]

It's not as important for an Hammerdin since hammerdin is a caster and being frozen DOES NOT effect you casting speed (FCR). The only annoying thing you'll be facing is moving slow, which is unecessary since you're teleporting with the help of the lovely Enigma

[Night Ranger]

I absolutly loved shins guide, I followed it and have all the items and can solo hell without a sweat and can usualy do with 5ish other players who dont help. I'm thinking about redoing anouther char because i screwed up with the atts and it would be fun.