Guild Wars 2

Hello everyone! I know that Scrapper isn’t exactly in the greatest spot for PvE content, but is there any kind of build or setup that would produce viable damage using the Hammer? Preferrably without the bomb kit? I absolutely loathe everything about the bomb kit from it’s boring rotation to silly animations. I’m not exactly doing hardcore content so it’s not like min-maxing is necessary, but I still like to feel like I’m doing adequate damage. Is there any kind of setup that can accomplish reasonable numbers?

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The problem with hammer, in terms of dps, is that it doesnt synergise well with our other traitlines.

The main dps traitlines for engie are explosives and firearms. Other lines have some dps traits (like SA on tools or HgH on alchemy) but are minor compared to the ones above.

With that in mind…

Explosives provides great dps increase with glass cannon and shaped charge, but the GM are mostly useless for hammer. Your best option, if you want to use this line, is to combo it with inventions for the bunker down mines, but it can be quite a waste as inventions don’t give you much dps and since hammer attacks are slow, your mine output will be quite low and the increase in dps from the improved explosions quite low…

Firearms is a better option here with high caliber and no scope. The GM again is a bit bad for Hammer… you wont be doing lots of condi to benefit from mod ammo, and the extra burn won’t be all that great for a power build (and I hope you are not looking for a condi dps hammer build!)
You can couple firearms with tools and run a SD build using the riffle turret and the ram and TK or Rocket Boots, but the synergy with scrapper, is not great for dps…

IMO, the best DPS you can get with hammer scrapper is with firearms and alchemy.
Go full elixirs with HgH. Elixir B, Elixir U, Elixir C (or R). Chugg elixirs to keep at 25 might and keep near perma quickness with mass momentum and applied force.

But rotation will be as boring as bomb kit… Just less effective (frontal melee and less tgts).

Have fun!

Boon-Hammer