Guild Wars 2

I know obviously you can use the hammer with all the heavy classes, and with scrapper as well: but is it any good on any of those classes?

Say I had to pick a class where I could use hammer the most (and not just because I like it, but because it was actually useful as well) which class would that be?

Thank you!

I enjoy playing scrapper with hammer a lot, and I use the hammer on my rev as the ranged option for casual open-world pve. My warrior mostly uses his hammer for wvw and the guardian for certain fractal encounters, so those are a bit more niche, depending on what gamemode you prefer to play.

Warrior can use it pretty well, but only to knock down or break stability bars. I prefer it over the shield mace combo in raids, even

Among the 4 professions that use Hammer, here’s what each of them do:

Warrior
Damage: Low DPS, Decent Spike
Sustain: Low
CC: Very High
Support: None
Mobility: Decent

Hammer Warriors are among the best AoE CCers available in the game and their attacks, while slow, hit for a lot. In return, their Offense and Defense suffer as their DPS is quite low and they lack defensive options on the weapon, which can be made up for with Defensive Utility Skills.

Guardian
Damage: Good DPS, Decent Spike
Sustain: High
CC: Decent
Support: Very High
Mobility: Very Low

For Guardians, Hammer is a very tanky and supportive weapon. It has less reliable CC and barely any Mobility compared to Warrior but much better DPS and Permanent access to Protection against Stationary Targets.

Revenant
Damage: Low DPS, High Spike
Sustain: Decent
CC: Decent
Support: Very Low
Mobility: Very Low

Acts as the Revenant’s only ranged weapon, and does a fairly decent job at it. With innate Projectile Blocking, an Evasive skill and a Life-stealing combo, it has good sustain against enemies with ranged weapons. Coalescence of Ruin is spammable and does a great deal of Damage to far-away enemies, but its only CC skill is very slow and highly telegraphed. Entirely lacks mobility, however.

Scrapper
Damage: Good DPS, Good Spike
Sustain: Very High
CC: High
Support: None
Mobility: Good

Scrapper’s hammer is extremely good. It doesn’t top any charts in terms of Damage or Support, but its massive Sustain and Mobility afforded by a Spammable Projectile Reflect, a double leap-finisher and a Low-CD block skill coupled with a Lightning Field with a Stun Component more than makes this weapon extremely well-rounded, meaning you won’t necessarily miss Weapon Swap too much with it equipped.