I wrote this idea in PTR Feedback:
I don’t mind the number of items for Blessed Hammer. The unused ones can become we rune specific boosters giving more distinct play styles to Seeker of the Light.
Jace’s Hammer of Vigilance: help Brute Force by increasing its explosion radius and damage. Bigger, slower, exploding hammers.
Justinian’s Mercy: turns the hammer into the S27 Angelic effect, straight line attack, heavy 50 wrath cost per attack, increases damage by 900%, too expensive for Gabriel’s Vambraces and forces the player to use Blessed of Haull (only granting the returning hammer path) until the CoE cycle where you can manually cast your own gammets. May be able to use RCR items and zodiac w/ provoke to get the full hammer path all the time.
Faithful Memory would be nice uncapped, but this results in single target damage seeming terrible if you were to push into the 140s, so really this has to be countered with a bump to Guard of Johanna’s first 3 target bonus.
Sacred Harness can raise damage via Falling Sword. Either % damage to Hammers or do something clever like the S27 Monk Bells Angelic effect where you cast Falling Sword, it leaves a Sword in the ground and you hit it with Hammers to release some very strong lightning pulses as Blessed Hammer damage.
I’d probably set the damage values like so:
- Johanna’s Argument: 100% damage/attack speed (unchanged)
- Guard of Johanna: 500% first 3 enemies
- Faithful Memory: Uncapped
- Jace’s Hammer: 400% and 15 yards
- Justinian’s Mercy: 900% at 50 wrath
- Sacred Harness: 100% to Blessed Hammer with Sword object that releases pulses to enemies within 20 yards.
So when you factor in these items, the mix-and-match combos may look like this:
- Johanna’s Argument + Faithful Memory + CC3 (holy)
- Johanna’s Argument + Faithful Memory + Sacred Harness (lightning)
- Jace’s + Faithful Memory + CC3 (physical)
- Justinian + Jace’s + Blessed Haull (physical)
- Justinian + Faithful Memory + CC3 (holy)
- Justinian + Faithful Memory + Sacred Harness (lightning)
Of course the Seeker set could use 75% DR to make surviving GR140+ feasible.