Hsarus’ Defense:
A level 3 set that actually isn’t that bad, but it just doesn’t really have anything to make you use it past Act 1. The shield is a little lack luster, maybe it could be buffed to make the set last through Act 2?
Option 1: Troll Option
1: Replace Damage Reduced By 2 on Hsarus’ Iron Fist (the shield) with +3 Smite. (Yes, as an O-skill, I called it the Troll Option you know)!
Would certainly fit the name of the Shield, is level appropriate, etc. Of course, this shield plus Black on weapon switch would probably become standard for any melee character hunting Ubers. Though to be fair, we already have that with Paladins. Is it so horrible that other Melee characters can access it?
Option 2: Okay I’ll be more serious
1: Replace Damage Reduced By 2 on Hsarus’ Iron Fist (the shield) with +15 Dexterity.
The shield still drops off rapidly, but it could have some niche uses for builds that need more stats to use certain weapons. A low level javazon for example might find this shield useful to upgrade weapons faster.
Hwanin’s Majesty:
Hwanin’s Majesty is another reference to Korean legends. Hwanin is the god of the Heavens, and Dangoon’s grandfather (from Heaven’s Brethren Set), so Lighting Damage is thematic. The primary problem with this set is the weapon is a Polearm and not a Spear, so the Amazon can’t use this with any of her Spear skills. It’s even more confusing because the Bill (the base of the weapon) is a European Polearm, while the Spear equivalent base is the Yari (the Japanese name for it, but those types of Spears were used in Korea too). I think someone made a mistake somewhere with this one. I’ll provide two options, one that changes the set bases, and one that continues with using the current bases (even though that limits this set to Barbarians, Druid Shapeshifters, and Charge Paladins). Regardless which way we go, this set also needs more Fire and Lightning resistances, since it needs to last through Nightmare and into early Hell.
Option 1: Amazon Bait
1: Change the base item of Hwanin’s Justice from a Bill to a Yari. (This is roughly the equivalent, the other choice being the War Fork, but Yari is more proper East Asia flavor, and has similar attack speed, with roughly similar requirements).
2: Replace 10% Chance to Cast Level 3 Ice Blast on Hwanin’s Justice with 20% Chance to Cast Level 7 Ice Blast on Striking.
3: Add +3 Impale to Hwanin’s Justice. (fits with Indestructible)
4: Add two piece partial set bonus to Hwanin’s Justice of +3 Fend.
5: Add three piece partial set bonus to Hwanin’s Justice of +3 Lightning Strike.
6: Change the base item of Hwanin’s Splender (the helm) to a Crown instead of a Grand Crown. Set required level to 30. (Currently the level requirement of the helm is 10 higher than the rest of the set, this is because the base is the Exceptional version, this would bring the level requirements more into line with the other pieces of the set).
7: Add +10 Strength to Hwanin’s Splender.
8: Add +1% Attack Rating Per Character Level to Hwanin’s Splender.
9: Add a two piece partial set bonus to Hwanin’s Splender of 40% Lightning Resistance.
10: Add a three piece partial set bonus to Hwanin’s Splender 10% Chance to Cast level 5 Thunder Storm When Struck to Hwanin’s Splender.
11: Add +30 Strength to Hwanin’s Blessing (the belt).
12: Add 25% Faster Hit Recovery to Hwanin’s Blessing.
13: Add a two piece partial set bonus to Hwanin’s Blessing of 5% Mana Steal
14: Add a three piece partial set bonus to Hwanin’s Blessing of +20% Increased Attack Speed
15: Add +40% Fire Resistance to Hwanin’s Refuge (the body armor).
16: Add +15 Strength to Hwanin’s Refuge.
17: Add a two piece partial set bonus to Hwanin’s Refuge of 30% Faster Hit Recovery.
18: Add a three piece partial set bonus to Hwanin’s Blessing of +30% to All Resistances
19: Add +3 Lighting Mastery to the full set bonus. (Yes this is big for a Lightning Strike Amazon, but remember this is competing with an Infinity Spear, Infinity Spear still wins).
Option 2: Not for Amazons
1: Replace 10% Chance to Cast Level 3 Ice Blast on Hwanin’s Justice with 20% Chance to Cast Level 7 Ice Blast on Striking.
3: Add 30% Chance of Crushing Blow to Hwanin’s Justice
4: Add two piece partial set bonus to Hwanin’s Justice of 20% Chance of Casting Level 14 Chain Lightning on Striking.
5: Add three piece partial set bonus to Hwanin’s Justice of +3 Zeal.
7: Add 20% Increased Attack Speed to Hwanin’s Splender.
8: Add +1% Attack Rating Per Character Level to Hwanin’s Splender.
9: Add a two piece partial set bonus to Hwanin’s Splender of 40% Lightning Resistance.
10: Add a three piece partial set bonus to Hwanin’s Splender 10% Chance to Cast level 5 Thunder Storm When Struck to Hwanin’s Splender.
11: Add +30 Strength to Hwanin’s Blessing (the belt).
12: Add 25% Faster Hit Recovery to Hwanin’s Blessing.
13: Add a two piece partial set bonus to Hwanin’s Blessing of 5% Mana Steal
14: Add a three piece partial set bonus to Hwanin’s Blessing of +20% Increased Attack Speed
15: Add +40% Fire Resistance to Hwanin’s Refuge (the body armor).
16: Add +25% Increased Attack Speed to Hwanin’s Refuge.
17: Add a two piece partial set bonus to Hwanin’s Refuge of 30% Faster Hit Recovery.
18: Add a three piece partial set bonus to Hwanin’s Blessing of +30% to All Resistances
19: Add +3 Lighting Mastery to the full set bonus. (Not usable by an Amazon, but it helps with the Chance to Cast Spells, and maybe a Holy Shock Charge Paladin could get some use out of it).
There you go. I’d really prefer Option 1, since this set was clearly supposed to be for a Spearazon, but for some strange reason they made the weapon a Polearm instead of a Spear.
Immortal Kings:
Only thing really that needs to change here is to add Staff Mods to the helm. The question is what to add.
Option 1: Buff Helm
1: Add +3 Battle Orders to Immortal King’s Will (the helm).
2: Add +3 Battle Command to Immortal King’s Will.
3: Add +3 Frenzy to Immortal King’s Will.
You could use this helm to get access to Battle Command and Battle Orders without filling out the prerequisites. Similarly, you could use it for Frenzy to get access to the speed buff without having to fill out the prerequisites. (You’d have dual HotO on swap for you buffs anyway, also use them to get your frenzy buff, then switch back to the Maul for Whirlwind). It would make this one of the most flexible Barb helms helping lots of different builds.
Option 2: Singer Berserker Hybrid
1: Add +3 War Cry to Immortal King’s Will (the helm).
2: Add +3 Berserk to Immortal King’s Will.
3: Add +3 Frenzy to Immortal King’s Will.
Either you are a Berserk Barb and you use it to get access to War Cry for Stun, or you use it as a Singer to get access to Berserk to deal with Physical Immunes. Really doesn’t fit with the set though.
Option 3: Whirlwind/Berserk
1: Add +3 Whirlwind to Immortal King’s Will (the helm).
2: Add +3 Berserk to Immortal King’s Will.
3: Add +3 War Cry to Immortal King’s Will.
Just allow to get higher on the two final Combat Skills used by the Barb that fit best with the set using a twohanded weapon. Use War Cry just for the stun effect in a few scenarios. This is probably the option I’d pick.
Isenhart’s Armory:
This needs more than just +1 Skills. It’s not bad… it’s just so bleh is the problem, it needs something to make it interesting and different from the other low level sets. I think the names of the various items should help giving them some pizazz. Probably looking to last through Normal, at least through Act 4. It already has good resistances; it mainly suffers from damage dropping off by the end of Normal.
1: Add +3 Holy Fire to Isenhart’s Lightbrand. (Yes, as an O-skill. That’s 12 to 30 Fire Damage, not going to break anything, and fits the name very well).
2: Add 25% Chance to Cast Level 3 Holy Bolt on Striking. (Another bit of pizzaz that fits the Lightbrand name to make this fun. That’s roughly 30 Holy Bolt damage to demons and undead, so it helps it stay damage worthy in Act 4).
3: Add 5% Mana Steal to Isenhart’s Lightbrand.
4: Add 20% Chance to Cast Level 8 Charged Bolt on Striking to Isenhart’s Lightbrand.
5: Add three piece partial set bonus to Isenhart’s Lightbrand of +25% Deadly Strike.
6: Add +10 Strength to Isenhart’s Case (the body armor).
7: Add 17% Faster Hit Recovery to Isenhart’s Case.
8: Add +60 Attack Rating to Isenhart’s Case.
9: Add two Open Sockets to Isenhart’s Case.
10: Add three piece partial set bonus to Isenhart’s Case of All Resistances +20%
11: Add +5 Strength to Isenhart’s Horns (the helm).
12: Add +3 to Thorns to Isenhart’s Horns. (Another piece of pizzaz that fits the names of “Horns” you can’t use it with Holy Fire, so it’s a bit of a trade off).
13: Add 10% Chance to Cast Level 1 Shout When Struck to Isenhart’s Horns.
14: Add 14% Faster Hit Recovery to Isenhart’s Horns.
15: Replace the two piece partial bonus of All Resistances +8 on Isenhart’s Horns with +10 to Attack Rating per Character Level.
16: Add three piece partial set bonus to Isenhart’s Horns of All Resistances +8
17: Add +3 Defiance to Isenhart’s Parry (the shield).
18: Add 30% Faster Block Rate and 20% Increased Chance of Blocking to Isenhart’s Parry
19: Add 20% Chance to Cast Level 1 Weaken When Struck to Isenhart’s Parry.
20: Add 17% Faster Hit Recovery to Isenhart’s Parry.
21: Add three piece partial set bonus to Isenhart’s Parry of 22% Faster Block Rate.
A lot of changes, but it’s mostly just pizzaz to make people have fun using it. More fundamentally it’s a defensive oriented set that doesn’t have big damage and instead focuses on triggering Chance to Cast. Most characters won’t use this set past Act 4 Normal. The exceptions are a Holy Fire Paladin might use this set through in early Nightmare if he hasn’t found something better yet; and an Enchant Sorceress who might use this through Nightmare.