Hand of Justice is a Runeword that is in weapons. Like some Runewords, Hand of Justice has a very specific build mind: Paladins who want to make use of the Level 16 Holy Fire Aura on it.
Requirements:
Any Weapon with 4 sockets
Runes (in order): Sur + Cham + Amn + Lo
The Stats:
Level Required: 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 Resist
20% Deadly Strike
Hit Blinds Target Target
Freezes 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 both Fire Skills from the Sorceress’ Fire Spells Skill Tree. While both are very useful Skills, the conditional set on the mods means that you will not be seeing 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 will probably see it 32 times if (1) you have it on at every level up and (2) you actually reach Level 99, which may take you eternity + 1 years. As for Meteor triggering, most Diablo 2 Players are not too keen on dying.
These mods, especially the last one, would suggest that it would be more useful on a Mercenary, who tend to die often anyway…however, most players would not 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 that steps within the Aura’s radius, and also adds a healthy amount of fire damage to your character’s attack.
Builds that try to make full use of the Holy Fire, would choose the Hand of Justice Runeword (Level 16 Holy Fire Aura) in their weapons, use the Dragon Runeword (Level 14 Holy Fire Aura) in their body armor, and use Dragonscale, a unique Paladin-only Shield (+15% to Fire Skill damage). In this case, the levels for Holy Fire from Hand of Justice and Dragon stack, giving a total of Level 30 Holy Fire plus the +15% damage from Dragonscale.