Looking for a guide for this as I’ve seen it mentioned a few places. I have assumptions but looking for input as well as merc setup. I know we can use a pride for a +20 conc which saves a lot of points.. but yeah. Thanks!

Mage (hybrid foh/hammer) is already lacking skill points (this is why they use pride merc and only 1pt in HS). So adding a 3rd branch (smite/fana/HS) would be very hard to fit in, at least in any way that works well.

I’d suggest playing either:
Mage (general pvm)
Hdin/smite (general pvm + minimum gear swap to do ubers or baal wave 2)
Foh/smite (restricted pvm areas + minimum gear swap to do ubers, or as a constant foh/smite hybrid to kill animals with smite)

It’s a tricky one tbh

If you wanna have some fun as multihybrid in pubs I’d go for murderdin

Hammer smite charge with widowmaker on swap

Can quite easily cube Bo now too so


Edit: ah it’s for pvm, mb

Pride cure coh merc with prayer

Hoto
Frostburn
2x soj
Arach
Spirit st 35-45
Enigma
3 pc 20 fcr circlet Berber or 2x topaz
3 pc 10 fcr amu
Frw tri res boots (at least fire res)

1 redemption
1 holy shield
20 foh
20 bolt
20 hammer
20 vigor
Rest into aim
0 into conc

Use a few mana small charms aswell (scales well with frostburns/sojs) use redemption as main aura always

Gotta go for 8 pc sks and high lvl else it won’t work

But tbh all round hammerdin still beats it for p8

This post was edited by Stefbef on Jan 18 2026 08:43am

Do you have a guide

very good build vouched

I ran a similar one with exact skill build (except redemption, got it from scept skills) but diff gears

2/20 circ with mana+life
2/20 ammy
35 /110+ spirit ( mana is important )
3bh/3foh/1redemp cta
arach
mage fist
enigma
soj x 1
fcr ring high mana and some fire res
pc skillers and some sc with mana/life or mana/mf

merc is exactly the same

can do up to p5 chaos with no issues, p8 chaos is doable but slower than the classic hammerdin

use FOH to clear mobs pack, and cast 1-2 hammer to clear the remainings. Hammer is also good against boss like diablo

This post was edited by Onyxdian on Jan 18 2026 11:51am

Minimum numbers I’d hit is 3500 foh or 100 dmg to a lo, 6k hammers or 1k dmg, 700-800 smite dmg.

Prob ik set for ias unless you wanna rock low dr and 2x 15 ias in helm or ias in shield and low fhr bp.

https://maxroll.gg/d2/d2planner/x4lz0ykj

run it with redemption aura, some gears can also be change to cheaper ones but it still works

level 47 hammer
level 47 foh
25k defense
75% block
4k+ life and 1k+ mana