Guild Wars 2

So I’ve tried just about every possible combination of Trait/rune/sigil combination I can think of, and nothing seems to be working for me.

So I’m here to ask for advice on a build for Mace/Shield, Hammer main and secondary weapon builds that either makes me hard has hell to deal with, or lets me tear through players like they were naked and sleeping.

I would like to ask that this be kept to helpful advice.

I love hammer/mace too, it feels very paladin-y but my advice would honestly consider different weaponsets because the traits available right now don’t support hammer + mace, at least not together.

Consider these points;
-To be a guardian in pvp you must trait either altruistic healing or monk’s focus, that’s just absolutely mandatory
-For AH you need to maximize boon uptime and support, usually through shouts as utilities
-monk’s focus is obviously using meditations as utilities

The big problem with hammer/mace is that they don’t fit together, a hammer in an AH build would be better suited by a staff because it has terrible uptime especially when you’re using shouts – this cuts your boon application waayyy down because you are planting less symbols with the auto chain.

The hammer’s uptime is better using monk’s focus but then you’re left with mace which is again out of place in a meditation build because it’s very defensive and more suited for standing on a point soaking up damage.

I have tried hammer/mace meditations and hammer/mace AH and I’ve always ended up switching back to something else. Those leaked patch noted that showed the cripple application on symbols had me really excited because something like that would put hammer in a good spot where you could actually hit your target.

I did have good success using a hammer/GS meditations build though, lots of strong CC

if you can get in the larger fights then the symbol boosting traits can be pretty amazing with hammer, combined with AH, but its mostly for zergs,
i’ve still yet to try it in the 10v10 deathmatch but it should be pretty great granting aoe protection which gives you pretty awesome health regen.