Does a Hammerdin profit from the elemental damage of Tiamats shield?

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Does enhanced damage affect Blessed Hammer?

It's working as intended, Blessed Hammer is a magical attack like a sorc's fireball. Weapons that increase skill levels will help with the damage, but the weapon damage and bonuses to weapon damage will not.

Does smite apply elemental damage?

Smite is a weapon skill and thus is affected by Attack Speed and not affected by Cast Rate. Smite works with any "X% Chance to cast level Y (spell) upon striking" ability on the primary weapon. Smite can also deal Crushing Blow and Open Wounds, but not Deadly Strike and elemental damage.

Is Tiamat rebuke good?

However, Tiamat's Rebuke has good defenses as well: it boosts all of a user's resistances by a moderate amount. A character could choose to add a socket with the appropriate Act V quest, then insert a perfect Diamond, in order to further increase its resistances.

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Diablo 2 Resurrected - How To Kill Magic Immunes With Hammerdin

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