The Essential Skill to Stack Holy Fire Auras into an Auradin in Diablo 2 (Part I)
Hand of Justice is a runic word that is on weapons. Like some Runewords, Hand of Justice has a very specific build in mind: Paladins wanting to use the level 16 Holy Fire Aura on it.
Requirements:
Any weapon with 4 slots
Runes (in order): Sur + Cham + Amn + Lo
The statistics:
Required Level: 67
100% chance to cast level 36 Blaze when you level up
100% chance to cast level 48 Meteor when you die
Level 16 Holy Fire Aura when equipped
+33% increased attack speed
+280-330% Enhanced Damage
Ignore target’s defense
7% life stolen per hit
-20% to enemy fire resistance
20% Deathblow
Hit target target blinds
Freeze target +3
100% chance to cast level 36 Blaze when you level up
100% chance to cast level 48 Meteor when you die
Blaze and Meteor are fire abilities from the Sorceress fire spell skill tree. While both are very useful Skills, the conditional set of the mods means you won’t see them very often. For Blaze, since you can only equip Hand of Justice at level 67, and each successive level takes progressively longer to reach, you’ll probably see it 32 times if you (1) have it activated at each level and (2) actually reach the level. 99, which can take you forever + 1 year. As for the Meteor activation, most Diablo 2 players are not very interested in dying.
These mods, especially the last one, would suggest that it would be more useful on a Mercenary, who tends to die often anyway… however, most players wouldn’t want to waste such an expensive Runeword on a Merc.
Level 16 Holy Fire Aura when equipped
This is Hand of Justice’s strongest selling point.
Holy Fire is a Skill from the Paladin’s Offensive Aura Skill Tree. It deals fire damage to anyone within the radius of the Aura, and also adds a good amount of fire damage to your character’s attack.
Builds attempting to make full use of Holy Fire would choose the Hand of Justice Runeword (Level 16 Holy Fire Aura) on their weapons, use the Dragon Runeword (Level 14 Holy Fire Aura) on their armor body armor and would use Dragonscale, it has a unique shield only for paladins (+15% to fire ability damage). In this case, the Hand of Justice and Dragon Holy Fire levels stack, giving a total of Level 30 Holy Fire plus +15% Dragonscale damage.