User:XT-8147/W/Mo Hammer Farm

Tired of playing the standard cookie-cutter Axe farming build? No? Well too bad, play this one anyway. Farming is almost as easy with a hammer as it is with an axe.

Armor

 * Max armor (durr).
 * Survivor on everything but the gauntlets, where you'll want Stonefist.
 * Superior Hammer Mastery helm. Add Minor Strength, Minor Tactics, Superior Absorption, and the best Vigor rune available (I use Superior Vigor).

Weapon
I use Victo's Maul. With the slower attack speed of a hammer, you'll want the furious mod.

Usage

 * This build works against Trolls as well as the HM Hulking Stone Elementals outside Sardelac Sanitarium. It can't kill the bosses (Cobble Poundstone and Flint Touchstone) in HM.  Cobble Poundstone is technically possible, but it takes forever and you have to get very lucky and KD him out of Healing Signet several times in a row.  Flint Touchstone has Eruption which will blind you, and Ward Against Melee which gives him a 50% block chance.  Between those two it's also technically possible, but once again takes forever.
 * Activate Live Vicariously right away, then move towards enemies.
 * Run through to get them all, activate "For Great Justice!" when they get close enough to attack you.
 * On Hard Mode, when you're content with the amount of enemies you have aggroed, you should be hurting. Hit Dolyak Signet and then Lion's Comfort.  Lion's Comfort should have charged thanks to "For Great Justice!".  If not, just whack an enemy once or twice.
 * Build up the remaining adrenaline, and then Earth Shaker->Crude Swing. Toss on Vigorous Spirit.
 * Repeat Earth Shaker->Crude Swing a few times, and activate your other skills as necessary.
 * Dolyak Signet will have a 3 second downtime, but it shouldn't matter too much in the grand scheme of things. Try to have Bonetti's Defense active during the downtime.
 * Since Lion's Comfort disables Dolyak Signet, always use it just after Dolyak Signet. If you absolutely need it in an emergency, go ahead and use it, then use Bonetti's to tank until you have Dolyak Signet back.
 * If you should die, it's not the end of the world. I've successfully recovered from 30% Death Penalty.  More might restrict you too much, especially if it prevents you from using "For Great Justice!".

Variants

 * Swap "For Great Justice!" for Sprint.
 * Or try Warrior's Cunning against those pesky Minotaurs and their blocking, though that 60 second recharge time really does hurt.
 * Mending lol

Against HM Hulking Stone Elementals

 * If you're fighting one, all you need is Live Vicariously and Vigorous Spirit. You'll out-heal its damage.
 * For two, add Dolyak Signet to out-heal their damage.
 * For three, add in Lion's Comfort every time after renewing Dolyak Signet, then again immediately when it charges up again so it won't disable Dolyak Signet. You'll technically be operating on a health deficit, but you'll kill one of them long before you die.  You really only need to be wary of the three seconds during which Dolyak Signet is down.
 * For pretty much any more, you'll need to actually use the entire skill bar.
 * I've killed a group of seven before, but it gets tedious until they scatter to heal.
 * When aggroing, the absolute last point at which you want to begin attacking is when they get your health to half. I'm basing this off of having 520 health with no death penalty, so keep that in mind too.
 * You'll want to kill the ones where the Ascalon Guards and the Ascalon City Wall Sentry patrol first, so they don't take your drops later on.
 * Sometimes one of the Hulking Stone Elementals will be aggro-linked to a burrowed Carrion Devourer (or at least it will be close enough to it that it will pop up). You can kill the Carrion Devourer with little difficulty, but be warned that it does pack Skull Crack.
 * Other types of devourers are much harder or impossible to kill.
 * Drops of importance:
 * Scorched Lodestones (Nick collected these a while back, listing this just in case he collects them again. You'll probably get all you need from one or two runs.)
 * Granite Slabs (These are common but sell for a fair amount)
 * Lumps of Charcoal
 * Lockpick (I've gotten a fair number of these out of this run)
 * Be on the lookout for Locked Chests. You won't always find one, but they're out there.