Hammers

Diablo II hammer data

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

Diablo II one-hand swing and two-hand swing attack speed data

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. Magic and rare hammers can have either Barbarian or Paladin skill prefixes. 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)