Guild Wars 2

I watched a couple of videos on people using these. I also think I watched one run amok in the SoR garri for about 15 minutes near the end of last week. I’ve not been on the other end of one, so other than “bring lots of hammers,” I’m not sure exactly what it takes to make them work.

I’m curious what are the cookie cutter builds and tactics for running them, assuming that you have a group of anywhere between five and “everyone” with hammers.

if you want to make a successfull hammer train, youre gonna need at least 15 ~ 20 melee depending on the size of your zerg and the fights you want to get. And after that its determining the ratio between guardians and warriors. More warriors = more direct damage/cc. More guardians = more retal/bunker etc. Tactics basically the more melee’s you have the more offensive the harder you can hit, tanking/dps with books/guardian synergy. Tactics vary depending on situation and enemy zerg type as well so its not easy to explain =/

wtb mass blind lol

SniffyCube.6107:

wtb mass blind lol

Sorry, Anet nerfed it.

RIP Dazzling Glamors, and Mesmer Glamor builds in general.

Justice is Blind?

All you need to stop a hammer train is soft CC spammage and kite them with AOE.
Bring a mix of DPS+CC rangers, thieves (With venomshare for immob, chill and poison spammage) and eles. A few mesmers for veils and you are set to destroy em.

Warriors stunning with Earthshaker and Guardians following behind with Staff spamming 1.

That’s your average hammer train right there.

25setup :
12/13 melee 7/8G/5W
2 mes
3 staff ele
4/5 necro
1/2 thieves(or 1/2 d/d ele)

if you need more melee, means you’re just bad.
It’s funny how people think melee train is main source of dmg… for 1.5year now.

Be sure to bring a ton of warriors with warbanrz!

Oozo.7856:

Be sure to bring a ton of warriors with warbanrz!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seOuP_JjAxM

I dont see the problem.

You don’t want to bring signet of undeath, you can’t complain about warbanners.

Oozo.7856:

Be sure to bring a ton of warriors with warbanrz!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seOuP_JjAxM

pure hammer trains are extremely easy to counter and slowly dismantle if a group knows what they’re doing, that said, the examples in your video are kitten tier wannabe hammer trains getting destroyed, the outcome would have been the same no matter what they were running.

Devitz.2136:

25setup :
12/13 melee 7/8G/5W
2 mes
3 staff ele
4/5 necro
1/2 thieves(or 1/2 d/d ele)

if you need more melee, means you’re just bad.
It’s funny how people think melee train is main source of dmg… for 1.5year now.

shhh….

just look at this big shiny thing over here that makes it hard to do your abilities…..

wads.5730:

pure hammer trains are extremely easy to counter and slowly dismantle if a group knows what they’re doing, that said, the examples in your video are kitten tier wannabe hammer trains getting destroyed, the outcome would have been the same no matter what they were running.

Quality hammer trains are rarely easily destroyed. They can be kited and managed, but one wrong move and it will cut through an enemies back line… fight over. It is like bull fighting only with a much more volatile arena.