02-14-2003, 11:05 PM
I don't buy it. I made a Hammerdin a while ago in 1.09 and he did just fine! :) The secret is to go for a very, very high casting speed AND a good amount of +skill items. I think I was only doing about 1000 damage with my hammers, but I cast them at 9 frames so I was decently speedy. A Holy Freeze mercenary is also of great use to the Hammerdins of today as they make the monsters slow down just enough such that you can annihilate them as they walk up to you. Most monsters I ran into were dead just after they reached me, so, at most, I took one hit from them. Then you just flash the Redemption aura when you're done with a group and BOOM, you're back at full health and mana! :lol:
-TheDragoon