Giga's 1.11 Ladder Hammerdin Guide!

[MuRRe]

So lvl 86 atm.
Gear
Shako
Enigma
+2skill amu (will replace with maras since I aint planning to hit 125FCR, convince me though if you can)
Hoto
HoZ
2xSoJ
Treks
Arach
Magefists
Torch
Anni
2 skillers

So, he is RAPING at baalruns.
I mean, I don't even have a merc and I have done solo-baalruns from lvl 80.

Now, is there ANY point putting points into something else than Holy Shield?
I will NEVER do PvP with this guy.

I just can't find any other meaningfull skill!!!

[ekon]

Very nice guide indeed, however, I don't understand this:

"12 Holy Shield*
- This skill should be on at ALL times"

How am I suppose to use BH & Concentration when using Holy Shield? What is the strategy?

[Shanksie1337]

to the forums

holy shield isn't an aura.
select HS, cast it, select conc aura and HS will stay active for quite a while (~7 mins or so)
the quote just means that you always want HS to be active, when it fades, simply recast it and then kill things for another ~7 mins. Without HS active your chance to block should fall right down from 75%.

[ekon]

Thank you

Ahh I see. Thought of it as an combat skill like smite or something... So it works like frozen armor then =)

Another thing, when I place points in concentration my hammer damage doesn't increase. Just hit level 27 and placed one more point on concentration and it did absolutely nothing to my dmg (its like level 12 now btw). However when i switch of the concentration aura my dmg drops like hell (like it should). So why didnt the damage increase?

[Shanksie1337]

If you were in a party with another conc user, and their conc aura was a higher level than yours, then your Lying Character Screen (LCS) would have been showing your damage with their conc aura. So when you increased your conc aura by 1 then assuming the other persons aura was still higher (or equal to your new level) then the LCS won't change.

If you weren't in a party then i dunno, but the chances are that you hit level 27 in a baal run or somewhere in a party.

[ekon]

Thanks for replying,

Actually I was not in a party... or yes I was but only with my friend who is playing a sorceres. It's the same thing with vigor. I have an amulet that gives +1 to defensive auras, and I should get a 14% dmg increase when I put it on since it adds points to Vigor which is a synergy but the dmg stays the same. Or doesnt it work that way?

[ChickenMcTest]

The + to skills you get from items will not increase the damage from synergy. Only hard points in a skill will increase the synergy damage... I think

[ekon]

Ah, okey, thats kinda sucky.

[Shanksie1337]

The + to skills you get from items will not increase the damage from synergy. Only hard points in a skill will increase the synergy damage.

^ exactly .

[gorcorps]

Thanks a ton for this guide giga. The only thing holding me back now is some gear.