07-06-2003, 07:00 PM
I can say that hammerdin is viable in a5 hell - even without many +skills. However, it does require a huge skillpoint investment (80 skillpoints just into blessed hammer, synergies and concentration), not to mention that you will probably want some into meditation, or redemption. In player 1 he was doing fine pretty much without any +skill items; and when I added about +10 skills all around, he was able to do ok even in players 8 (of course, with a lot of running and dodging - with improved monsters damage, his life suddenly seems so much smaller...) And there is an additional benefit now to this build - it seems blessed hammer is both magical and physical damage... Thus immunes are essentially not a problem (I have yet to meet something that's immune to both physical AND magic damage)