Blessed Hammer Crusader Speed Farming Variation
Speed Farming
The Blessed Hammer Crusader deals with
regular Rift farming decently all the
way through the highest Torments, making it a viable build for the task. Note
that the deliberate pace of the build (due to the necessary inclusion of
Falling Sword), makes it a slightly
Within the limited scope of regular difficulties, the necessary damage and toughness to triumph over the enemy is significantly smaller. Thus, your best course of action is to improve utility and speed.
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Adapting Rotation
When you are speed farming regular rifts, parts of your playstyle will adapt to the lowered challenge and focus more on speed and utility.
Throughout the farming run, the Hammerdin should keep up the
Blessed Hammers rotating around them, transporting themselves between packs
with a combination of
Laws of Hope
Wings of Angels and
Falling Sword.
Akarat's Champion and
Iron Skin should still be applied on cooldown,
and
Provoke will remain part of the rotation as an emergency Wrath
restoration pop.
Adapting Skills
Parts of the skill and passive selection will overlap with the base Greater Rift progression build, but others will have to change according to the task at hand. Ability to cross over great distances faster and more efficiently take precedence.
- If you transition
Blessed Hammer into regular rifts, it is advisable to swap
Limitless away for
Dominion — the orbiting hammers are very convenient in clearing trash as you move between elite packs.
- In speed farming, the damage you need for an individual enemy pack will be
significantly less, allowing you to shift away from
Laws of Valor
Critical and focus on speed and utility with
Laws of Hope
Wings of Angels.
- In regular rifts, where
Sacred Harness can be replaced by
Goldwrap, you will need to take
Falling Sword with the rune
Part the Clouds — the 2-second stun will proc
Hammer Jammers instead of
Sacred Harness.
- The remainder of your skill lineup —
Provoke
Too Scared to Run (Wrath restoration tool),
Iron Skin
Flash (auxiliary movement skill and protective value) and
Akarat's Champion
Prophet (your strongest self-buff) will remain unchanged between specs.
Fervor and
Finery will remain part of your passive lineup. You can also bring slightly more damage to the table with
Blunt; the loss of
Holy Cause's healing should not be impactful in farming content.
- If you do not feel threatened by the difficulty, you should replace
Indestructible with
Long Arm of the Law. This change will ensure you have permanent uptime of the
Laws of Hope
Wings of Angels movement buffs.
Adapting Gear
The vast majority of the Hammerdin-specific items will remain unchanged during
speed farming. You will still be taking advantage of the full set bonus of Seeker
of the Light set, incorporating all 6 available pieces according to your best
rolls. The trio of Johanna's Argument,
Guard of Johanna and
Gabriel's Vambraces are too valuable to pass up in this build, so they also
remain locked in place.
It is worth noting that in the limited challenges of regular rifts, both the
Endless Walk set and Convention of Elements greatly diminish in usefulness.
A better jewelry split is a Holy damage
Stone of Jordan (for the permanent
damage increase), and
Avarice Band (for the synergy with
Goldwrap
and
Boon of the Hoarder), as well as
Squirt's Necklace for an
additional damage multiplier in the build (the former favorite
The Flavor of Time can now be equipped on your follower and its power will
transfer to you via the Emanate mechanics).
This damage reduction from the free Judgment
Debilitate coming off
Sacred Harness will be redundant in regular rifts, where you can get all
the protection you will ever need via
Goldwrap.
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To help you with farming the gear you need for your builds, we have two very useful guides that you can access by clicking the links below: a Salvage Guide to help you quickly check whether or not you can safely salvage a piece of gear and a Legendary Farming Guide to help you efficiently farm legendaries and set items.
Adapting Gems
Bane of the Trapped remains a universally desired damage amplification
gem.
During speed farming, Gogok of Swiftness will be a protective overkill
and should be replaced by
Boon of the Hoarder. The latter is a high utility
gem that feeds you practically infinite gold, gives you a massive short-term
speed boost while picking it up, and synergizes excellently with the worn
Avarice Band for a sizable speed boost, and the cubed
Goldwrap for
near-invulnerability.
Since monster health is much more tame in the standard difficulties, you
should also replace Bane of the Stricken with
Bane of the Powerful for
the consistent, easily sustained damage increase. If you overpower content so
much that even
Bane of the Powerful is unnecessary, you can consider using
Wreath of Lightning for the extra speed.
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For more information about gems, please refer to our guide on gems.
Adapting Kanai's Cube
The Kanai's Cube selection is largely locked down due to important passive
bonuses for the Hammerdin build. Both Faithful Memory in the weapon slot
and
Hammer Jammers are hard to replace due to DPS value, and
Obsidian Ring of the Zodiac is one of your few sources of steady
Akarat's Champion resets.
The Kanai's Cube can be used for much more than simply extracting Legendary powers from items. Please refer to our Kanai's Cube guide for more information.
Follower
The recommended follower for this build during standard rift farming for keys is the Enchantress due to her numerous utility bonuses, allowing you to smooth out your speed runs even further.
For more information regarding followers, we advise you to read our Follower Guide, which contains detailed advice for choosing the skills and the gear of your follower.
Legendary Potion
The preferred potion for this build is Bottomless Potion of the Leech due
to its Life per Hit bonuses, adding some much needed life sustain to
the build.
Changelog
- 13 Apr. 2022: Guide reviewed for Season 26.
- 09 Dec. 2021: Added Season 25 Soul Shard recommendations.
- 23 Jul. 2021: Added S24 Ethereal recommendation.
- 31 Mar. 2021: Minor build alterations and follower recommendation added.
- 18 Nov. 2020: Added S22 Cube recommendation.
- 30 Jun. 2020: No changes required for Season 21.
- 12 Mar. 2020: No changes necessary for Season 20.
- 19 Nov. 2019: Guide revised and updated for Season 19.
- 22 Aug. 2019: Reviewed for Season 18.
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