@@Stepcloserr this game is basically the same engine , but different rendering, all the same issues exist like skipping frames and running and ending up in same spot over and over, thy did a horrible job remaking this game
@@JOHNTOPG I hope to god they fix the dumb ass teleporting backwards on battlenet.... even on LAN you wouldn't jump around. The beta definitely didn't seem promising, though it looked very nice
You're missing the explanation on how to position your character so that hammers are the most effective when they pop out. Blessed hammer are coming our of your caracter at his top left corner. Which means you want to teleport under them a bit to their right so hammers are hitting faster that way.
Eh, I think I've never heard this advice in any other hammerdin guide before. But while playing, you can tell how it works, and should have no problem correcting for that.
@@jhonwayne1003 rofl you either where too young to understand or didnt play the game at all ... Blizzard Sorc was basically the type that got played by everyone ... 1 hit meph, 1 hit diablo, 1 hit pindle, 1 hit every key holder, baal run clearspeed +500%
Probably the overall strongest build in the game IMO, and even poor ones with vigor and holy shield are still very strong they just lack the speed. IDK I think most players will be sorcs, but hammerdins are not a bad choice at all. The only issue is hammers are very annoying to use without enigma to control them
@BT he said overall the strongest, it has by far the lowest monster immunity rate (very few monsters are naturally magic immune and you can stay clear of act 2 tunnels where they are), it has big damage and easy clears and can do all of your stated activities while maybe not the fastest, maybe not the best at anyone thing but it can MF, it can baal farm, chaos farm, it can do it all even Ubers... Yes it's not a smiter but that is only good for a few select builds and it crap at other things... Javazon while is fun for cows and chaos does not MF that well. The hammer din is the best all around build for just wanting to play, yes other classes can do better but they have to sacrifice in many other ways. TBH I will have to be sorc and if gear is that hard to drop well... Only a poorly geared sorc lol
I can't decide if I want to go straight up Hammerdin or Blizz Sorceress when Resurrected comes out... The Teleport is nice and Pits/Lower Kurast/Ancient tunnels will be okay but with a Hammerdin everything is good to go and I think I would rather do a bunch of Chaos Runs/River of Flame runs anyway or random A5 areas
Great build! Can’t believe I didn’t use to like this build. I will point out that is pretty difficult to achieve, especially just starting out, so viper and dual spirit is great budget while using vigor and a teleport staff on switch
@@emerald3666 a buddy and I were discussing this. Hopefully they got rid of bots and between that and shorter ladder seasons HR’s and rare gear will be SUPER rare. As it should be 🤷♂️
end game gear maybe but its not too hard to gear up a hammerdin. You could use tarn helm, vipermagi, wizspike or spirit sword, spirit pally shield, fcr glove magefist or trangs. Yeah it would suck you cant teleport without enigma but you can look for something with teleport charges to get through walls and use vigor to run through the maps.
the game will be botted from day 1. private bots on the first few weeks, followed by public releases of (most likely) paid bots. D2R uses same item ids as vanilla diablo 2, very easy to bot.
As sad as it is to say, I’ll shoot for a refund when I see bots 🤷♂️ the new graphics are awesome but my only hopes were for a fair ladder instead of the shitshow we’ve got now 🙄
I thought the same, on fresh servers it will be the best way to farm gear for subsequent characters. Some people are insane though and will somehow farm all this gear at the end of the first day lol.
@@stolenhal0 I agree, but I'm not saying Sorc is more powerful than Hammerdin. Sorc is just a better MFer. Hammerdin is amazing, but Enigma is pretty much needed on it to MF. Engima will take a long time to make without the use of bots and duped items. So I still believe most people will make a Sorc as their first character to MF.
@@Dimitri1221XxX ah, I see... Does make sense considering the cost of Enigma. Tele staff charges are far too expensive without it. So yeah, maybe start with Blizz Sorc.
I have run Chaos Sanctuary 1000's of times, and I have run into conviction enchanted Infector once. I would focus gear on stats/ magic find over using Hot Spurs for that 1 in 1000 chance of encountering conviction aura. Thanks for the video!
@@WTFmateDarthNoob as a barb youre not a boss farmer like sorts. You're goin to be focusing on places like Pits, Chaos Sanc. Travinical, shenk/pindle. you can run countess, but it will be slow, however there are champ packs along the way.
Combat merc from normal is actually the best with Insight. The Med aura on Insight will boost his Prayer aura and your life rep will become seriously rediculous. Might aura doesn't really do much as 99% of the dps will come from yourself, and merc's dmg is actually quite marginal compared to those hammers
Hey Dbrunski, random thing here. Not sure if anyone has told you or if you already know but when I was watching your 1000 Thresh Socket runs I noticed you were teleporting from Crystalline. If you get the right spawn, he can be right there at the Arreat Summit waypoint if you ever do a bunch of TS runs! Keep up the great work man!
Yeah first FotH, then they made goofy-ass hammers of all things OP. Pally in general is just so boring yet OP; he has to keep an aura on right-click but he has tons of cheese attacks like smite and charge. It's almost as if the dev gods smile on him.
this isn't d3 lol,,,,this same patch build other classes are just as good if not stronger. Amazon is still faster then this pally build and sorc is a sec close.
What is a good / best chest armor besides enigma for hammerdin ? I got a low roll resistance: viper magi- fcr 30%, + 1 all skill, def: 279 and all resist :25. Should i upgrade it to get 1000 ish defense or use another armor?
Why is it recommended to have the might aura mercenary with insight? The might aura doesn’t boost the damage of hammers does it? Wouldn’t it be better to have the defense aura with insight instead?
9:50 "anyone who says, as a hammerdin, that they've never died to De Seis is a liar!" - whoah whoah whoah... i think hardcore players would beg to differ! :D
I have actually never died to De Seis, and only ever play Hardcore. But I also haven't played Hammerdin yet. I am very curious what makes him so dangerous, just so I can keep not having died to him..? :)
@@mikkelnebelong6136 I believe its the hammerdin's style of fighting that makes De Seis dangerous for him. Most players teleport or run up close to De Seis and his pack of minions to cast hammers... but De Seis and his doom knight minions (with fanata aura) can be very deadly very quickly :P. Add in extra fast mod, and an amp damage or decrep curse, and its easy to get mobbed and chopped to death by a few doom knights :P. I prefer to cast hammers from a distance and let De Seis and his goons come to me... for protection :D
Dbrunsky, have you ever done a video about the good old days of D2 LOD 1.09? Where Occy Rings, Wiz Rings, etc came to be? Also, iirc Ancients used to give around 7-8 levels if done correctly. Many things changed with the patch to 1.10 where Hammerdins first came to exist. I’d love you to do a video about this, thanks for your dedication.
Just a quick pro tip, if you do a run like this, once you kill all the bosses and the normal enemies die, any that you have physically seen on screen (or made active) when they die they also drop there items, so it may be worth a quick teleport round just incase something nice has dropped.
What are the real up and downside of ignoring most of the trash mobs in Chaos and just opening the seals fast? Like I think they still drop some loot if they are killed by opening the seals right? Do they give exp too? Do we just want to go for speed and kill diablo fast or do we want to get the extra drops from the trash there? The trash in chaos can still drop runes and other goodies ofc. Personally I always killed the trash but it does take a lot more time.
As 75% fcr build for hardcore instead of zaka I prefer to use 35fcr spirit. Allows to use tg belt for light immunity. Add there dwarf and raven and you effectively have light, fire and cold immunity. This also gives a chance to use chance gloves for extra magic find. Without any skillers this setup gives 11k hammer damage which is more than enough. Additionally I like to put all extra skill points in holy bolt to speed up baal runs. For merc I prefer prayer aura. The heal might seem weak in paper but in practice I hardly ever use health potions. And for hardcore its also a safety thing as with prayer merc I always have 100% hp and not 90% or 80% as I would without it.
There will probably be a lot of players with less knowledge that pick up D2 resurrected, I think it's worth noting that the hammerdin is strong with Enigma because any movement reduces your block chance to 25%. If you're repositioning purely off of teleport your block essentially never drops below 75% even though you're "moving around" during combat. You take less damage with holy shield and you're less susceptible to just getting insta-killed when repositioning.
Druid to me was always one of the most frustrating classes to get going... also it never compared to the power index of other more-popular & more-effective D2 classes.
@@zanido9073D2 had little in the way of shortcomings, but one of them was surely class-balance of PvP v PvE. My great disappointment of the Druid was locked into how weak he was as a PvE performer. It was one thing they surely handled more proficiently in the era of D3, but of course its also fair to point out that beyond story arcs and game appearance there is little to compare between D2 and D3... so very many changes. I'm hopeful D4 will bridge those very differences ably and responsibly.
I'm sure this video is amazing, it sounds like you deff know what you are talking about. But as an old school player who never got into end game, trying to understand what you were saying almost gave me an anxiety attack. :P
Same man. I'm an old school d2 player that just normally played and now that it is returning I'm interested in how I can step up my experience and reach the more hard-core levels, but all these abbreviations and slangs is hard to understand for someone like me lol.
This might be a popular build, but I still think sorcs are gonna reign supreme at first. My plan is to just MF and gear up a sorc and start key farming in hell to sell for high runes. Make my infinity, fortitude, CoA, and buy torch/anni. THEN I'll consider starting a new character and just gear share. Won't be hard to make an enigma after a few keyset sales. I think my buddy is planning on making a hammerdin so I might just help gear him up for that and focus on my sorc full-time. We'll be able to farm chaos/baal runs faster together with a sorc since we won't have enigma for a while. Either way, I'm excited to play in a fresh D2 economy without mods and hopefully a good player base will make trading less painful.
Hey Dbrunski, I'm a new subscriber and really like your content! I bet you have tons of videos you wanna make but if you need some inspiration: what I'd find absolutely great would be a guide from you for every class with best budget gear and best end game gear 😀
Noob question but in resurrected are stat respecs available? And if so how many? I remember in OG D2 there being a respec but can’t remember if it was a one shot or not. I ask because unless you are really good at planning ahead how do you know what your stats will be at max level. So a noob leveling up is there a level guide on what points to go where and by x level your stats should be Y?
So.. I'm confused. Why would you worry about max fire res against a conviction aura seeing as how it lowers your res anyways? Wouldn't a Ral or Um run be better? Cause even with the max FR of 95, conviction is still going to take you well below your max. Unless any "extra" resists above your normal 75 max aren't added in after conviction takes you down? Which I don't think is the case, but admittedly I'm not sure.. TL;DR, how much does 95 max FR help when you only have 20 FR after conviction?
Hey mate, coming back after 10 years of playing, have a pretty good hammerdin already. For your future videos can you please show stats once stacked? Would love to see you stats once they’re at their max.
Solid video as always briths. Hammerdin will still be the king of D2. Although you should consider making a leveling/budget guide (Spirit sword, Wiz spike, Vipermagi, Guardian Angel, Peasant Crown, etc.). Many people will likely not have end game gear until a few months into ladder. Many people also may not know how to level a hammerdin. DbrunsLove
Well it really depends on what goals youre setting for a main character if its to be a decked out Hammerdin like in the video ill just start with a sorc and farm runes for enigma like a madlad then just reroll. Slight edit: I believe most of the people that are going to play it are streamers and longtime mod,battlenet players so i think whoever knows the game which is like all of those players beside people that played it 15 years ago returning for hype and campaign clear are going to get endgame gear even before 1 month depending on their luck.
Yep, everyone always skips straight to GG end game build without any leveling guide. Holy Fire is essential for early game Hdin until Blessed Hammer is unlocked.
@@stolenhal0 Yeah it really eases the 1-25 leveling process i believe there are several guides about what to skill up untill lvl 22 and respec then its just people dont look for it on youtube and generally the casual players dont really care for minmaxing/easing up leveling and so on they just enjoy the slow progression i guess.
@@wtbskilllololo Fair point. However, there will be thousands of casual players as well (such as myself) who can't devote countless hours to farming end game gear. A "budget" hammerdin is still a very effective/viable character; it just doesn't have the efficiency of an end game hammerdin.
@@bowtiebilly6955 I mean what do you consider countless hours when i say casually im talking about people that enjoy the game without knowing where to farm or how to target farm specific items or runes even. People with knowledge about drops and effective farm builds can spend way less hours played and get good rewards. I believe if you generally spend 2-3 hours a day you can deck yourself no big sweat. Edit:Also if there is no Perm banning for leaving games quick you can just make tons of items from farming Andariel or Mephisto constantly for no more than 1-2 hours a day and if there are no bots some of these items are going to be pricy.
Hammerdins have mana issues early on. Once you get an insight on your mercenary it gets better. Plus using spirit sword and shield gives you a ton of extra mana to play with as well.
Just wanted to say Thanks. Never played D2 before so have been watching so many of your videos. Just finished the Budget MF sorcerer that I will start with but this looks like lots of fun once I start to figure out how to play the game and get some gear.
Concentration adds an extra 5% per level to blessed hammers as a hidden synergy effect of the active aura if I remember correctly from my past days of mod making. On a further note should of seen what it did to other skills when I modded that feature in.
explain it to me, what is it that i don’t understand? if you have completed your build why do you go after magic find? not like you need to find more items?
Why would max fire res counter conviction? Wouldn't you want to overcap it instead? I might be wrong but I think thats what people do for uber trist mephisto
sorry for the dumb question but when you say max block do you mean the profile max block highliting defense or the %block 75 on shield. My holy shield puts my shield block at 75 but my profile is at about 55%. Guessing I need more dex?
Make sure to turn on the holy shield skill “when the shield glow yellow”. With holy shield active, you spend less point in dex to get 75% block. Then look into your character profile stats: look at the defense part. Increase dex until its 75% block while holy shield is active. Don’t just look at your shield 75% block only , its the character profile block that is also important.
The reason concentration does this is because it was a bug at launch that people liked so the devs kept it. Most of us at that time were asking if that was the case to allow it to use another aura but the idea never got enough people behind so they left it alone ;(
Great video as always. Is there any chance for a bow amazon guide? I know it's not a popular build but maybe some people play it. I like it a lot and it can be quite powerful with elite gear (faith+reaper's toll merc etc)
Faith Bowzon was one my my favorite characters. I used a1 merc with Harmony for the vigor aura to get around quickly. Strafe and multishot are just so fun
I feel like concentration buffs Hammer because before it got nerfed (they made hammer magic dmg) it was just pure damage kind of like tornado. Not that it was even really a big nerf they can still run the entire game with minimal resistances. Prior to that though literally nothing stopped hammerdins.
CoA with 2 ral rune is an option also if you fear fire. That's what I give to my merc while doing Trav runs and it almost negate completly the conviction aura alone. It does up to 90 fire res (or more with a good rare jewel).
Since Hammerdin has several skillpoints to spare after maxing hammerdamage i spend 10poonts in fire resist for the 5% passive maxres. i do not think putting more then 1 hard point into holy shield is necessary. only a slight defense buff and maybe a few additional% blockchance.
Yep agree, with decent setup you can get like +20 or more to skills so 1 is truly enough. Or heck getting a 5 socket scepter with holy shield on it(even if just +1) and you can go with none and still get a nice high holy shield skill to use. Sure that scepter isn't easy to get but getting that for CTA and all, you can skip having to invest in that skill.
@@kahahabahaha yeah....they did...kind of. Put it this way, the chances of high runes dropping in D2 used to be like getting struck by lightning while being attacked by a shark. Now they're equal to you ~just~ getting struck by lightning. Ppl expecting to just drop Enigma in their perfect Archon plates after a couple weeks of playing will be sorely disappointed, I think.
@@fu6817 for a first mf character.. probably not. Again, its one of those builds that does nice damage and coverage, but without enigma you won't see its true power. Being able to tele right on to something and hit it with tornado is great. Depends where you're planning to MF with it. With oak sage, bear, cyclone armor it is a very tanky build. Cold dmg from hurricane to slow mobs down, physical damage from nado
D3? Or D2? I've been playing D2 PlugY mod recently on Linux via Wine app and have experienced absolutely zero lag since having dumped Windows for good. Hope D2R will run on it.
I would say a lot of D2 first time players are not even aware of builds and rune words. When D2 first came out in the 90's I think the most common first character people played was the barbarian.
Wow memories! I havent played d2 in 15 years? When i played the hammerdin was what i played. If i remember correctly i was hitting like 15 16k per hammer. Fun times
I agree that would be awesome! Maybe i'm not in the majority here but I really dont care about those lvl 90+ builds geared with HOTO and SoJs up the nose.
Always used CoA BerBer and HoZ setup combined with Defiance merc with Doom runeword. And would not run any character without CBF. But played mostly HC so wouldnt compromise survivability
Charger/zealer. Charger can hit really hard, but only 1 target, so it's decent for dueling. Zeal will be necessary if you have any hope of clearing monsters at a decent rate. There are very few occasions when its worth sacrificing a shield for a 2h weap
That's a good idea. I can name a few off the top of my head.. goreriders, HoZ, eth Titans, arreats, magefist... just gotta look at items and ask yourself if you're OK with trading higher stat and level requirements for better damage/defense mostly. For example, personally I would never up magefists for a sorc, but some people up them for other class build. Only up items with pretty good to perfect Stat rolls. Some Ethereal items like HoZ(zod) and Titans are almost always upped, whereas non-ethereal Titans are usually just sold to charsi or dropped in a mule-dumping game for noobs. Eth Titans is sooo much better since it has auto replenish mod.
You basically get spirit sword and shield, peasant crown, vmagi or skullders to MF, caster rings, etc... then you run around with charge and hammer shit down in areas like trav, chaos sanc, eld, shenk, pits, etc... for CS get a tele staff and just port over the maze shit.
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wil there be a cash shop for enigma?
@Johnathan Smith i have not tried it. Didn't even know it existed tbh
I wonder how many new players are gonna be crushed when they realize how long it takes to legitimately farm this kind of gear lol
until week two when a million bots exist to farm things for people.
@Sproose Moose it would probably take 2 or 3 weeks before we see people with this build
@@Stepcloserr this game is basically the same engine , but different rendering, all the same issues exist like skipping frames and running and ending up in same spot over and over, thy did a horrible job remaking this game
@@JOHNTOPG I hope to god they fix the dumb ass teleporting backwards on battlenet.... even on LAN you wouldn't jump around. The beta definitely didn't seem promising, though it looked very nice
@@JOHNTOPG D2:R is a remaster, not a remake. It is intentional that all the lovely, old quirks are still in the game.
You're missing the explanation on how to position your character so that hammers are the most effective when they pop out.
Blessed hammer are coming our of your caracter at his top left corner. Which means you want to teleport under them a bit to their right so hammers are hitting faster that way.
Love dbrunki but yeah, I think due to playing the game so so much that little details like this don't even cross his mind 😂
Eh, I think I've never heard this advice in any other hammerdin guide before. But while playing, you can tell how it works, and should have no problem correcting for that.
@@itzamna3080 there are blind spots too
@@itzamna3080 it's still def worth mentioning for efficiency, especially for newcomers which the vid is aimed at
And that's why this is not a video guide anyone should watch; it's missing the sweet little details that matter.
DBrunski - Hammerdin will be the most popular build
Blizz Sorc - hold my staff.
Blizzard sorc was trash on hell mode, 20 years ago
@@jhonwayne1003 Infinity Merc : Hold my beer
@@jhonwayne1003 rofl you either where too young to understand or didnt play the game at all ... Blizzard Sorc was basically the type that got played by everyone ... 1 hit meph, 1 hit diablo, 1 hit pindle, 1 hit every key holder, baal run clearspeed +500%
@@Lagencie I know the game. And in hell/nightmare Diablo scene everything was ice immune. Meph and Baal runs I can see. Not Diablo tho.
@@jhonwayne1003 diablo run is nothing ice immun, just pop the seals and kill the bosses only the mage is ice immune sometimes
Mf blizzard sorc my first build. Hammerdin once I get rich lol.
Same. Blizz or Orb sorc.
Mf blizz to zealer to any druid - bowzon. I'll literally make any character in d2 besides a hammerdin lol
u will be able to farm more content if u start right away with hammerdin, all u really need is 2x spirit and GG
@@bodom6540 Yea, but without Enigma Hammerdin will be kinda slow. You can find tp amu or something tho.
Sorc/hdin boring ass meta.
Probably the overall strongest build in the game IMO, and even poor ones with vigor and holy shield are still very strong they just lack the speed. IDK I think most players will be sorcs, but hammerdins are not a bad choice at all. The only issue is hammers are very annoying to use without enigma to control them
@BT he said overall the strongest, it has by far the lowest monster immunity rate (very few monsters are naturally magic immune and you can stay clear of act 2 tunnels where they are), it has big damage and easy clears and can do all of your stated activities while maybe not the fastest, maybe not the best at anyone thing but it can MF, it can baal farm, chaos farm, it can do it all even Ubers... Yes it's not a smiter but that is only good for a few select builds and it crap at other things... Javazon while is fun for cows and chaos does not MF that well.
The hammer din is the best all around build for just wanting to play, yes other classes can do better but they have to sacrifice in many other ways.
TBH I will have to be sorc and if gear is that hard to drop well... Only a poorly geared sorc lol
I can't decide if I want to go straight up Hammerdin or Blizz Sorceress when Resurrected comes out...
The Teleport is nice and Pits/Lower Kurast/Ancient tunnels will be okay but with a Hammerdin everything is good to go and I think I would rather do a bunch of Chaos Runs/River of Flame runs anyway or random A5 areas
a budget or build towards (stats/ skills/ items to pick during leveling) guide would have been nice.
Spirit shield, Spirit sword, Rest of gear resistance with max block and enough FCR to get you to 75. Not too complicated.
@@MindlessTube Don't forget Lore helm
Great build! Can’t believe I didn’t use to like this build.
I will point out that is pretty difficult to achieve, especially just starting out, so viper and dual spirit is great budget while using vigor and a teleport staff on switch
With this Gear for needing, they must Play 1 year to get it. Not so fast as the Most ppl think
@@emerald3666 a buddy and I were discussing this. Hopefully they got rid of bots and between that and shorter ladder seasons HR’s and rare gear will be SUPER rare. As it should be 🤷♂️
end game gear maybe but its not too hard to gear up a hammerdin. You could use tarn helm, vipermagi, wizspike or spirit sword, spirit pally shield, fcr glove magefist or trangs. Yeah it would suck you cant teleport without enigma but you can look for something with teleport charges to get through walls and use vigor to run through the maps.
the game will be botted from day 1. private bots on the first few weeks, followed by public releases of (most likely) paid bots. D2R uses same item ids as vanilla diablo 2, very easy to bot.
As sad as it is to say, I’ll shoot for a refund when I see bots 🤷♂️ the new graphics are awesome but my only hopes were for a fair ladder instead of the shitshow we’ve got now 🙄
@@klineonline5121 a lot of people like using the plugy mod and do single player for the holy grail
Pretty sure blizzard sorc will be more popular season 1. Everyone I've asked is making a sorc as their first character.
I thought the same, on fresh servers it will be the best way to farm gear for subsequent characters. Some people are insane though and will somehow farm all this gear at the end of the first day lol.
I like Blizz Sorc but still think Hdin is more powerful (compared to my 2 chars at least) and will likely be my first farmer.
@@stolenhal0 I agree, but I'm not saying Sorc is more powerful than Hammerdin. Sorc is just a better MFer. Hammerdin is amazing, but Enigma is pretty much needed on it to MF. Engima will take a long time to make without the use of bots and duped items. So I still believe most people will make a Sorc as their first character to MF.
Hate that they're doing shorter seasons. Gunna farm up and ladder will reset
@@Dimitri1221XxX ah, I see... Does make sense considering the cost of Enigma. Tele staff charges are far too expensive without it. So yeah, maybe start with Blizz Sorc.
As an average player, the only attainable items in this build you ever realistically going to own is the shako and magefist
This build has literally been the same for 20 years nearly lol
Yes the game had no balance changes since, kinda obvious lol
If it ain't broke, don't break it
It's almost like the game was released a long time ago and didn't get any balance changes the last 20 years....
Not until 1.10
and it is even more boring ever after
I have run Chaos Sanctuary 1000's of times, and I have run into conviction enchanted Infector once. I would focus gear on stats/ magic find over using Hot Spurs for that 1 in 1000 chance of encountering conviction aura. Thanks for the video!
Dbrunski125 is the most informational streamer.. not to mention just so chill!!! thank you for the amazing guide man!
Hammerdin is not really worth it without enigma and other high runewords, so my guess is everyone is gonna roll an MF sorc as 1st char
or cow Java
@@GlobalMyko or assasin with burst of speed
My first will be Assassin or Barb
@@yanniblumstein1 I wanted to go barb first also but I am worried they will be difficult to farm with. Do you have any tips if I decide to go barb?
@@WTFmateDarthNoob as a barb youre not a boss farmer like sorts. You're goin to be focusing on places like Pits, Chaos Sanc. Travinical, shenk/pindle. you can run countess, but it will be slow, however there are champ packs along the way.
Combat merc from normal is actually the best with Insight. The Med aura on Insight will boost his Prayer aura and your life rep will become seriously rediculous. Might aura doesn't really do much as 99% of the dps will come from yourself, and merc's dmg is actually quite marginal compared to those hammers
Nightmare merc unholy freeze would negate much more dps, than the prayer aura would heal you per second I would be very inclined to think.
thank you so much for taking the time to make these videos, it helps remind us so much so we dont mess up our build! cant wait for d2r
Hey Dbrunski, random thing here. Not sure if anyone has told you or if you already know but when I was watching your 1000 Thresh Socket runs I noticed you were teleporting from Crystalline. If you get the right spawn, he can be right there at the Arreat Summit waypoint if you ever do a bunch of TS runs! Keep up the great work man!
Thank you for your content pal! I appreciate it. Also this video makes me want to build a hammerdin for the first time. Seems really powerful. Cheers
If hammerdin is the absolute meta again then we are truly doomed to eternally suffer repeating history.
Yeah first FotH, then they made goofy-ass hammers of all things OP.
Pally in general is just so boring yet OP; he has to keep an aura on right-click but he has tons of cheese attacks like smite and charge.
It's almost as if the dev gods smile on him.
this isn't d3 lol,,,,this same patch build other classes are just as good if not stronger. Amazon is still faster then this pally build and sorc is a sec close.
the game isn't changed at all of course it will be the meta lol
@@slimmortal213 i give them 6 months before they introduce seasons with balance changes.
D2r is launching on 1.14d so hammerdin is meta. I do hope a 1.15 hits us not long after with massive balancing and much more "viable" build varieties.
What is a good / best chest armor besides enigma for hammerdin ? I got a low roll resistance: viper magi- fcr 30%, + 1 all skill,
def: 279 and all resist :25. Should i upgrade it to get 1000 ish defense or use another armor?
Why is it recommended to have the might aura mercenary with insight? The might aura doesn’t boost the damage of hammers does it? Wouldn’t it be better to have the defense aura with insight instead?
More damage = more life leech = tanky merc
9:50 "anyone who says, as a hammerdin, that they've never died to De Seis is a liar!" - whoah whoah whoah... i think hardcore players would beg to differ! :D
But how many have lost their character to De Seis at least once on HC? hmmm??
@@CamBeulGaming probably a majority of them! :D
I have actually never died to De Seis, and only ever play Hardcore. But I also haven't played Hammerdin yet. I am very curious what makes him so dangerous, just so I can keep not having died to him..? :)
@@mikkelnebelong6136 I believe its the hammerdin's style of fighting that makes De Seis dangerous for him. Most players teleport or run up close to De Seis and his pack of minions to cast hammers... but De Seis and his doom knight minions (with fanata aura) can be very deadly very quickly :P. Add in extra fast mod, and an amp damage or decrep curse, and its easy to get mobbed and chopped to death by a few doom knights :P. I prefer to cast hammers from a distance and let De Seis and his goons come to me... for protection :D
@@playortry999 Very insightful, thank you so much for your response :)
Concentration boosts hammer dmg because in classic d2 hammers were physical dmg, not magic dmg.
Dbrunsky, have you ever done a video about the good old days of D2 LOD 1.09? Where Occy Rings, Wiz Rings, etc came to be? Also, iirc Ancients used to give around 7-8 levels if done correctly. Many things changed with the patch to 1.10 where Hammerdins first came to exist. I’d love you to do a video about this, thanks for your dedication.
Just a quick pro tip, if you do a run like this, once you kill all the bosses and the normal enemies die, any that you have physically seen on screen (or made active) when they die they also drop there items, so it may be worth a quick teleport round just incase something nice has dropped.
Geez, what if people saw this video and then searched for my video about making a budget hammerdin build?
And it's one of the reasons I'll avoid it at all costs.
What are the real up and downside of ignoring most of the trash mobs in Chaos and just opening the seals fast?
Like I think they still drop some loot if they are killed by opening the seals right? Do they give exp too?
Do we just want to go for speed and kill diablo fast or do we want to get the extra drops from the trash there?
The trash in chaos can still drop runes and other goodies ofc.
Personally I always killed the trash but it does take a lot more time.
MF sorc is gunna be the most popular starting toon.
My second toon will be a zealot
Isn't zealot a little gear dependant? Everyone will speed level a MF sorc for a farm toon then slowly expand out from there
@@Jspath3 yeah but I can gear him up with the sorc.
And the zealot is my favorite build
With D2 Resurrected releasing your channel must be booming Dbrunski :D
As 75% fcr build for hardcore instead of zaka I prefer to use 35fcr spirit. Allows to use tg belt for light immunity. Add there dwarf and raven and you effectively have light, fire and cold immunity. This also gives a chance to use chance gloves for extra magic find. Without any skillers this setup gives 11k hammer damage which is more than enough.
Additionally I like to put all extra skill points in holy bolt to speed up baal runs. For merc I prefer prayer aura. The heal might seem weak in paper but in practice I hardly ever use health potions. And for hardcore its also a safety thing as with prayer merc I always have 100% hp and not 90% or 80% as I would without it.
There will probably be a lot of players with less knowledge that pick up D2 resurrected, I think it's worth noting that the hammerdin is strong with Enigma because any movement reduces your block chance to 25%. If you're repositioning purely off of teleport your block essentially never drops below 75% even though you're "moving around" during combat. You take less damage with holy shield and you're less susceptible to just getting insta-killed when repositioning.
I'm over here hyped about playing a shapshifter druid
Druid to me was always one of the most frustrating classes to get going... also it never compared to the power index of other more-popular & more-effective D2 classes.
@@hardryv3719 wind and bear druid were strong in pvp
I leveled a shape-shifter to hell once. It wasn't very fun to me. My buddy used to have a fireclaw bear and would wreck in pvp with it
@@zanido9073D2 had little in the way of shortcomings, but one of them was surely class-balance of PvP v PvE. My great disappointment of the Druid was locked into how weak he was as a PvE performer. It was one thing they surely handled more proficiently in the era of D3, but of course its also fair to point out that beyond story arcs and game appearance there is little to compare between D2 and D3... so very many changes.
I'm hopeful D4 will bridge those very differences ably and responsibly.
Glad your video release corresponds with my insomnia. Those ads were wild btw. 😅
why are the auto generated subtitles vietnamese ?
I'm sure this video is amazing, it sounds like you deff know what you are talking about. But as an old school player who never got into end game, trying to understand what you were saying almost gave me an anxiety attack. :P
Same man. I'm an old school d2 player that just normally played and now that it is returning I'm interested in how I can step up my experience and reach the more hard-core levels, but all these abbreviations and slangs is hard to understand for someone like me lol.
Faster cast rate = good
Always hated it when people use acronyms in "explanation" videos. Not much was explained to me, sadly.
I agree 100% this video does a terrible job of explaining anything, other than to players who already are lifers at this game. Not well done at all.
Oh yeah baby
This might be a popular build, but I still think sorcs are gonna reign supreme at first. My plan is to just MF and gear up a sorc and start key farming in hell to sell for high runes. Make my infinity, fortitude, CoA, and buy torch/anni. THEN I'll consider starting a new character and just gear share. Won't be hard to make an enigma after a few keyset sales. I think my buddy is planning on making a hammerdin so I might just help gear him up for that and focus on my sorc full-time. We'll be able to farm chaos/baal runs faster together with a sorc since we won't have enigma for a while. Either way, I'm excited to play in a fresh D2 economy without mods and hopefully a good player base will make trading less painful.
Hey Dbrunski, I'm a new subscriber and really like your content! I bet you have tons of videos you wanna make but if you need some inspiration: what I'd find absolutely great would be a guide from you for every class with best budget gear and best end game gear 😀
Hey Diablo 2 resurrected , will you be able to transfer the items from regular Diablo 2 old?
Or is every body starting fresh etc
Noob question but in resurrected are stat respecs available? And if so how many? I remember in OG D2 there being a respec but can’t remember if it was a one shot or not. I ask because unless you are really good at planning ahead how do you know what your stats will be at max level. So a noob leveling up is there a level guide on what points to go where and by x level your stats should be Y?
Should I play SP or on Bnet when D2R comes out?
So.. I'm confused. Why would you worry about max fire res against a conviction aura seeing as how it lowers your res anyways? Wouldn't a Ral or Um run be better? Cause even with the max FR of 95, conviction is still going to take you well below your max. Unless any "extra" resists above your normal 75 max aren't added in after conviction takes you down? Which I don't think is the case, but admittedly I'm not sure..
TL;DR, how much does 95 max FR help when you only have 20 FR after conviction?
Do you know which patch will D2R start at?Or will it be an entirely new patch?
Hey mate, coming back after 10 years of playing, have a pretty good hammerdin already. For your future videos can you please show stats once stacked? Would love to see you stats once they’re at their max.
Solid video as always briths. Hammerdin will still be the king of D2.
Although you should consider making a leveling/budget guide (Spirit sword, Wiz spike, Vipermagi, Guardian Angel, Peasant Crown, etc.). Many people will likely not have end game gear until a few months into ladder. Many people also may not know how to level a hammerdin.
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Well it really depends on what goals youre setting for a main character if its to be a decked out Hammerdin like in the video ill just start with a sorc and farm runes for enigma like a madlad then just reroll.
Slight edit: I believe most of the people that are going to play it are streamers and longtime mod,battlenet players so i think whoever knows the game which is like all of those players beside people that played it 15 years ago returning for hype and campaign clear are going to get endgame gear even before 1 month depending on their luck.
Yep, everyone always skips straight to GG end game build without any leveling guide. Holy Fire is essential for early game Hdin until Blessed Hammer is unlocked.
@@stolenhal0 Yeah it really eases the 1-25 leveling process i believe there are several guides about what to skill up untill lvl 22 and respec then its just people dont look for it on youtube and generally the casual players dont really care for minmaxing/easing up leveling and so on they just enjoy the slow progression i guess.
@@wtbskilllololo Fair point. However, there will be thousands of casual players as well (such as myself) who can't devote countless hours to farming end game gear. A "budget" hammerdin is still a very effective/viable character; it just doesn't have the efficiency of an end game hammerdin.
@@bowtiebilly6955 I mean what do you consider countless hours when i say casually im talking about people that enjoy the game without knowing where to farm or how to target farm specific items or runes even.
People with knowledge about drops and effective farm builds can spend way less hours played and get good rewards.
I believe if you generally spend 2-3 hours a day you can deck yourself no big sweat.
Edit:Also if there is no Perm banning for leaving games quick you can just make tons of items from farming Andariel or Mephisto constantly for no more than 1-2 hours a day and if there are no bots some of these items are going to be pricy.
Fully upped deep dusk with a perfect diamond is a really great helmet for a Merc.
Can not wait for d2r!!!
Hi there, love the guide! I'm following and respeced at 18 but having significant mama issues. How do you mitigate this?
Hammerdins have mana issues early on. Once you get an insight on your mercenary it gets better. Plus using spirit sword and shield gives you a ton of extra mana to play with as well.
@@ryansnapp9616 thanks for the heads up! Guess he'll take a back seat until I can farm those runes!
Ok but have you played as Necromancer?
Just wanted to say Thanks. Never played D2 before so have been watching so many of your videos. Just finished the Budget MF sorcerer that I will start with but this looks like lots of fun once I start to figure out how to play the game and get some gear.
Hi any suggestions for Baal runs, how do you deal with 8 players 2nd wave? Thanks.
Put the rest of ur skill points in holy bolt instead of holy shield
Pray. Just kidding. In 8 players you hope one is a decently geared and leveled sorc.
Concentration adds an extra 5% per level to blessed hammers as a hidden synergy effect of the active aura if I remember correctly from my past days of mod making. On a further note should of seen what it did to other skills when I modded that feature in.
Realistically, how many hours /played to get that gear AS the hammerdin (not using another character)? 500? 2000?
Dbrunski125, what's your favorite caracter and build to play?
explain it to me, what is it that i don’t understand? if you have completed your build why do you go after magic find? not like you need to find more items?
why does your game look so good compared to mine? are you using any image enhancer? can i use that if i play on bnet ?
I fully agree with BK rings and insight. People think i'm stupid. I'm like, what do you need the mana for? "DRRRrrrr umm..."
Why would max fire res counter conviction? Wouldn't you want to overcap it instead? I might be wrong but I think thats what people do for uber trist mephisto
sorry for the dumb question but when you say max block do you mean the profile max block highliting defense or the %block 75 on shield. My holy shield puts my shield block at 75 but my profile is at about 55%. Guessing I need more dex?
Make sure to turn on the holy shield skill “when the shield glow yellow”. With holy shield active, you spend less point in dex to get 75% block. Then look into your character profile stats: look at the defense part. Increase dex until its 75% block while holy shield is active.
Don’t just look at your shield 75% block only , its the character profile block that is also important.
I would agree that 125 FCR is the best . Some people go with 75 FCR - but after you do 125 - you never want to go back ....
this is gonna be the most popular after awhile. for first several months itll be blizz sorc cuz no enigmas
First few weeks*
Is this the same as your new video that is the running hammerdin
Hey bro I'm new sub, just started yesterday D2R does this build applies to D2R as well?
Yea. The patch is the same. 1.14d so every old d2 vid for years should cover you until/if they release a 1.15 build.
The reason concentration does this is because it was a bug at launch that people liked so the devs kept it. Most of us at that time were asking if that was the case to allow it to use another aura but the idea never got enough people behind so they left it alone ;(
Great video as always. Is there any chance for a bow amazon guide? I know it's not a popular build but maybe some people play it. I like it a lot and it can be quite powerful with elite gear (faith+reaper's toll merc etc)
I was def thinking bowazon next
@@Dbrunski125 Cool
Faith Bowzon was one my my favorite characters. I used a1 merc with Harmony for the vigor aura to get around quickly. Strafe and multishot are just so fun
I feel like concentration buffs Hammer because before it got nerfed (they made hammer magic dmg) it was just pure damage kind of like tornado. Not that it was even really a big nerf they can still run the entire game with minimal resistances. Prior to that though literally nothing stopped hammerdins.
No one will be able to afford this for it to be popular
cannot wait for this.
Did you strength bug your merc?
Dbrunski is just showing off that he's so rich he doesn't have to check drops when doing Chaos runs.
To be fair, it's single player and his char is pretty much min-maxed already. What's to find?
CoA with 2 ral rune is an option also if you fear fire. That's what I give to my merc while doing Trav runs and it almost negate completly the conviction aura alone. It does up to 90 fire res (or more with a good rare jewel).
Since Hammerdin has several skillpoints to spare after maxing hammerdamage i spend 10poonts in fire resist for the 5% passive maxres. i do not think putting more then 1 hard point into holy shield is necessary. only a slight defense buff and maybe a few additional% blockchance.
Yep agree, with decent setup you can get like +20 or more to skills so 1 is truly enough. Or heck getting a 5 socket scepter with holy shield on it(even if just +1) and you can go with none and still get a nice high holy shield skill to use. Sure that scepter isn't easy to get but getting that for CTA and all, you can skip having to invest in that skill.
Definitely going Trapsin or hybrid Necro
How many times a week do you stream? Twoice u said?
usually I've been so damn busy with big stuff behind the scenes I cant talk about atm
@@Dbrunski125
Hahaha no worries. U sounds like an Aussie when u said that in that video!
Love your content!
Well I never managed to get an Enigma through all my time playing D2. Maybe in D2R?
I think they buffed high rune droprates in recent patches, so if you haven't played those, maybe it's more achievable now?
@@kahahabahaha yeah....they did...kind of.
Put it this way, the chances of high runes dropping in D2 used to be like getting struck by lightning while being attacked by a shark.
Now they're equal to you ~just~ getting struck by lightning.
Ppl expecting to just drop Enigma in their perfect Archon plates after a couple weeks of playing will be sorely disappointed, I think.
I heard they are not bringing enigma to ressurected for awhile after launch
Good builds for sure, But for me Wind Druid all the way! :)
Is windy nice for first mf char?
@@fu6817 for a first mf character.. probably not. Again, its one of those builds that does nice damage and coverage, but without enigma you won't see its true power. Being able to tele right on to something and hit it with tornado is great. Depends where you're planning to MF with it. With oak sage, bear, cyclone armor it is a very tanky build. Cold dmg from hurricane to slow mobs down, physical damage from nado
Why have every slot occupied for MF when you have no place to put stuff when you DO find it...... Just wondering
Do you know if they fixed the issues with lagging in d3 or should I still do the “disable sound” trick?
D3? Or D2? I've been playing D2 PlugY mod recently on Linux via Wine app and have experienced absolutely zero lag since having dumped Windows for good. Hope D2R will run on it.
@@stolenhal0 D3 … wizards made a lot of lag in season 23
Do we know if charge bug is still a thing in D2R?
LOL Bro respect, i played years a diablo and never known such simple items can made monster :D
I would say a lot of D2 first time players are not even aware of builds and rune words. When D2 first came out in the 90's I think the most common first character people played was the barbarian.
Any reason you did not upgrade your boots? (to elite)
Wow memories! I havent played d2 in 15 years? When i played the hammerdin was what i played. If i remember correctly i was hitting like 15 16k per hammer. Fun times
Please do some getting started HC builds
I agree that would be awesome! Maybe i'm not in the majority here but I really dont care about those lvl 90+ builds geared with HOTO and SoJs up the nose.
@dbrunski125 might need a budget hammerdin guide for the start of the season lol
Always used CoA BerBer and HoZ setup combined with Defiance merc with Doom runeword. And would not run any character without CBF. But played mostly HC so wouldnt compromise survivability
Hello ! What build for pally would you sugest to use with a Two-handed weapon ? ( i like 2H cuz of RP reasons :) )
Just choose a rp skill and go with it :D
Charger/zealer. Charger can hit really hard, but only 1 target, so it's decent for dueling. Zeal will be necessary if you have any hope of clearing monsters at a decent rate. There are very few occasions when its worth sacrificing a shield for a 2h weap
What are some other Palatin builds for early game ??
@Miniguwara thank you!! What mage build should I do for leveling up?
How's the FoH shock aura synergy build ?
Will the necromancer and assassin be in Diablo 2 remastered???
I don't know if you have done this already but can you make a video talking about the unique items worthy of upgrading using the cube recipe?
That's a good idea. I can name a few off the top of my head.. goreriders, HoZ, eth Titans, arreats, magefist... just gotta look at items and ask yourself if you're OK with trading higher stat and level requirements for better damage/defense mostly. For example, personally I would never up magefists for a sorc, but some people up them for other class build. Only up items with pretty good to perfect Stat rolls. Some Ethereal items like HoZ(zod) and Titans are almost always upped, whereas non-ethereal Titans are usually just sold to charsi or dropped in a mule-dumping game for noobs. Eth Titans is sooo much better since it has auto replenish mod.
Does life and mana leach still work for hammers?
Is there a specific reason why everyone makes HOTO in a flail?
In diablo 2 lod 1,14 d i still have bug for paladin charge . Is it fixed in diablo 2 ressurected ?
Thanks Homie
You are gonna walk the chaos sanctuary until the Ber and Jah drops?
Could you make such a tutorial only for a starting hammerdin (post-wipe)? Missing key items like Enigma, HOTO or shako.
You basically get spirit sword and shield, peasant crown, vmagi or skullders to MF, caster rings, etc... then you run around with charge and hammer shit down in areas like trav, chaos sanc, eld, shenk, pits, etc... for CS get a tele staff and just port over the maze shit.
more of an overview than a guide... a guide would include leveling, gear progression, skill/attribute point order, etc.