Guild Wars 2

Why should i use hammer skills when the chain is damage and boon wise the best?

S2 has nice damage but cancelling the AA for it? I’d rather have a boon on this or more damage or something really mighty on it. Maybe x stacks of might or fury?

S3 2s of immobilization in a line for 1200 range. I don’t know when to use this at all. Except soloing champions and needing some time to catch a breath. I would change it to 4s immobilization and 600 range.

S4 funny. Aoe on it would be cool.

S5 rather useless. I would add damage. Damage always works. Or an aoe stun 1s on foes trapped inside.

Hammer 2 is amazing. It is a blast finisher on a low cooldown. I dont know how much you use combo fields but blast finisher are the best finisher in my opinion.
Hammer 3-5 are more about control and not as bad as you think atleast in pvp though in pve rarely use them but than again in pve you only need dps skills.

Muchacho.2390:

Hammer 2 is amazing. It is a blast finisher on a low cooldown. I dont know how much you use combo fields but blast finisher are the best finisher in my opinion.
Hammer 3-5 are more about control and not as bad as you think atleast in pvp though in pve rarely use them but than again in pve you only need dps skills.

This, pretty much.

The fact that you can dodge-cancel AA to time the AA symbol with #2’s CD for constant Retal is very very handy.

The control offered on the other skills (particularly #3-4) is also great when in fractals.

Guardian Hammer is a utility weapon with excellent damage on the AA. ’Nuf said.

Blast finisher for what? Light fields! And they do retaliation for 1/4s? or something like that. Sure if you bring someone with fire fields and a couple of guardians… but solo the skill is rather useless for that little retaliation gained.

No guardian hammer is a good supporting weapon via protection and healing on fields etc but damage wise the hammer is just solid nothing special at all damagewise. If you take a look at the dps table someone did in the guardian section you will realize that the dps on the hammer is the worst of them compared/viewed at.

Even from a contol point of view. Its 2s immob. and that hammer bash. S5 can be ignored.

raubvogel.5071:

Blast finisher for what? Light fields! And they do retaliation for 1/4s? or something like that. Sure if you bring someone with fire fields and a couple of guardians… but solo the skill is rather useless for that little retaliation gained.

No guardian hammer is a good supporting weapon via protection and healing on fields etc but damage wise the hammer is just solid nothing special at all damagewise. If you take a look at the dps table someone did in the guardian section you will realize that the dps on the hammer is the worst of them compared/viewed at.

Even from a contol point of view. Its 2s immob. and that hammer bash. S5 can be ignored.

You know pve is not only about running around solo. For dungeons you need 5 people and there are chances that one of your team mates has a water or fire field (the 2 most useful field in the game).

And for wvw you know there is a reason why most zergs/ organized groups want hammer guardians..

DPS wise Hammer is one of the better weapons guardians have, well atleast if you can hit.

Well ether way, hammer 3-5 may be good or bad (in my opinion they are good but i could see why someone would disagree) but saying hammer 2 is bad is simply wrong.

I think there are guardian weapons that need more attention then hammer like onehand sword for instance.