| QL | Name | Hands | Damage | Speed | Max sockets | Range | Str req | Lv req |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | War Hammer | 1 | 19–29 | 20 | 4 | 0 | 53 | — |
| 21 | Maul | 2 | 30–43 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 69 | — |
| 32 | Great Maul | 2 | 38–58 | 20 | 6 | 2 | 99 | — |
| 48 | Battle Hammer | 1 | 35–58 | 20 | 4 | 0 | 100 | 25 |
| 45 | War Club | 2 | 53–78 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 124 | 25 |
| 53 | Martel de Fer | 2 | 61–99 | 20 | 6 | 2 | 169 | 25 |
| 82 | Legendary Mallet  |
1 | 50–61 | 20 | 4 | 1 | 189 | 61 |
| 69 | Ogre Maul |
2 | 77–106 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 225 | 51 |
| 85 | Thunder Maul |
2 | 33–180 | 20 | 6 | 2 | 253 | 65 |
| Class | One-hand swing base attack frames | One-hand swing base attacks per second | Two-hand swing base attack frames | Two-hand swing base attacks per second |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon | 13 | 1.92 | 17 | 1.47 |
| Assassin
|
14 | 1.78 | 18 | 1.38 |
| Barbarian | 15 | 1.66 | 18 | 1.38 |
| Druid
|
18 | 1.38 | 16 | 1.56 |
| Necromancer | 18 | 1.38 | 19 | 1.31 |
| Paladin | 14 | 1.78 | 17 | 1.47 |
| Sorceress | 17 | 1.47 | 15 | 1.66 |
Hammers are one-handed or two-handed blunt, melee weapons in Diablo II. Hammers have no Dexterity requirements to wield.
Hammer damage scales with the wielder's Strength at a higher rate than other weapons, with each point of Strength equivalent to 1.1% enhanced damage, rounded down to the nearest percent.[3] Magic and rare hammers can have either Barbarian or Paladin skill prefixes.[4] Like other blunt weapons, hammers are compatible with Barbarian Mace Mastery, and have an inherent +50% damage to undead modifier.
Clubs, maces, hammers and scepters are all labeled "mace class" in-game, but the four weapon types have distinct properties.
Two quest items, the Horadric Malus and the Hell Forge Hammer, are hammers.
Set hammer
There are no set hammers in classic.
The only set hammer in the Lord of Destruction expansion is Immortal King's Stone Crusher (Ogre Maul).
Unique hammers
The unique hammers in classic are:
- Ironstone (War Hammer — one-handed)
- Bonesnap (Maul — two-handed)
- Steeldriver (Great Maul — two-handed)
Additional unique hammers in the expansion are:
- Earthshaker (Battle Hammer — one-handed)
- Bloodtree Stump (War Club — two-handed)
- The Gavel of Pain (Martel de Fer — two-handed)
- Stone Crusher (Legendary Mallet — one-handed)
- Schaefer's Hammer (Legendary Mallet — one-handed)
- Windhammer (Ogre Maul — two-handed)
- Earth Shifter (Thunder Maul — two-handed)
- The Cranium Basher (Thunder Maul — two-handed)
Hammer rune words
The maximum number of sockets possible in a one-handed hammer is 4. The maximum number of sockets in a two-handed hammer is 6.
In the expansion, the following Weapon Rune Words function in nonmagic hammers with exactly the specified number of sockets:
- Beast (5 sockets — two-handed only)
- Black (3 sockets)
- Breath of the Dying (6 sockets — two-handed only)
- Call to Arms (5 sockets — two-handed only)
- Doom (5 sockets — two-handed only)
- Eternity (5 sockets — two-handed only)
- Famine (4 sockets)
- Fury (3 sockets)
- Hand of Justice (4 sockets)
- Honor (5 sockets — two-handed only)
- Passion (4 sockets)
- Malice (3 sockets)
- Silence (6 sockets — two-handed only)
- Strength (2 sockets)
- Venom (3 sockets)
- Wind (2 sockets)
Additional Rune Words for hammers in ladder play are:
- Fortitude (4 sockets)
- Last Wish (6 sockets — two-handed only)
- Lawbringer (3 sockets)
- Phoenix (4 sockets)
References
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