The hammer's magicite pool demands more planning than most weapons in The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales. Many of its best options are expensive, niche, or tightly complementary; Body & Soul needs Charge Time Down to offset its penalty, and Blowback only earns its slot alongside Enhanced Knock Back.

That interconnectedness makes your choice of playstyle unusually consequential: commit to charge attacks for high-impact boss damage, lean into regular attacks for critical-hit and knockback pressure against enemy groups, or blend the two for all-round applicability. Below, we'll break down each approach and share the charge-attack build that made light work of the final boss.

All Hammer Magicite

Magicite

Effect

Payback

Increases damage with charged attacks if you take damage while charging.

Knockout

Adds a stun chance to regular attacks.

Tremors

Generates extra shockwaves with charge attacks.

Wide Impact

Increases the radius of charge attacks.

Lightning Mallet

Generates bolts of lightning to strike around charge attacks.

Blowback

Knockback from attacks will damage enemies if they hit walls with it.

Firm-Footed

Reduces the distance you get knocked back if you take damage while charging.

Enhanced Stun

Stun duration increased when inflicted by the hammer.

Enhanced Knock Back

Increases the distance enemies are knocked back by the hammer.

Critical Rate Up

Increases crit rate.

Critical Damage Up

Increases the damage dealt by crits.

Charge Time Down

Reduces the amount of time it takes to charge.

Attack Up

Increases the damage dealt by the hammer.

Blast

Defeated enemies generate explosions.

Body & Soul

Increases the charge time of special attacks, but makes them guaranteed critical hits.

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Best Magicite To Use

A lot of the hammer's magicite options are quite niche or expensive, making it difficult to go into a build or playstyle without a lot of thought. Many of them are complementary - for example, you'll only want to take Body & Soul if you can also offset the charge time increase using Charge Time Down. Similarly, Blowback is made far easier to justify if you also take Enhanced Knock Back.

It is for this reason that the high cost of the best magicite makes it quite difficult to pick a playstyle you'd want to stick with. There are three general directions that can really work with the hammer:

  • All-in on charge attacks, focusing on risky but high-impact damage. This is a fantastic way to use the hammer as a boss-killing weapon.
  • All-in on regular attacks, looking at the critical hit and knockback magicite. This is best served against tricky packs of enemies.
  • A mix of the two, purpose-built to be applicable to hordes and bosses, removing much of the thought during the fights themselves.

A standout magicite is Lightning Mallet. It's expensive, but it does some brilliant damage in most situations!

Best Endgame Magicite Build

Our recommendation is to go for the 'charge attack' focus - the hammer is a fantastic damage dealer, with a fully-charged attack with the best hammer dealing an incredible amount of damage.

With all five-star magicite and a fully-upgraded magicite box, this is the build we went with that trivialised much of the final boss and some of the harder optional challenges.

Payback

Tremors

Wide Impact

Lightning Mallet

Blowback

Critical Rate Up

Charge Time Down

Attack Up

Body & Soul

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