My account is fairly new so I am not that experienced. Been playing scrapper in wvw.
I wanted to say, I do not like using berserker or marauder armor. I feel like the skill cap is too high to use your shields and blocks to avoid damage and no deal much damage.
Yes you get burst damage with your hammer, but I am finding that I get exploded in wvw quite fast and usually get focused fire.
Meta battle has a frontline scrapper build but,
I been using sentinel armor sentinel hammer soldier jewelry soldier back piece and sentinel gem infusions. (low power low toughness high vitality) and I notice a drastic improvement in my play style. Very good quality.
I use – Hammer – Medic gyro – bulwark gyro – rocket boots (for blast finisher and slow/snare removals) and oil spray for knock down. For ultimate I usually use supply depot for the stun blast finisher or elixir x for the bird transform cc. or mortar kit for an extra water field and light field
I know people might think I am dumb for playing a defense build.
I use armor weapon sentinel and soldier jewelry and soldier back piece and the jewelry / back piece has sentinel state gems.
I use inventions alchemy and scrapper trees.
I use runes of durability or you can use runes of the pack. For sigils I use superior force and superior momemtum (for killing spree toughness stacking)
I know this build sounds lame.
I find that it works extremely well. My health is around 27k my armor is 3100-3300 with max sigil.
I do decent burst damage against pugs and range people and since most people stack offensive stats I can tank them easily and murder them fast.
As you guess, the weakness of this build is conditions. Conditions hurt me badly.
This is more of an enhancing scrapper design to be melee support and using gyros as well as water fields / pack / durability / blast finishers to keep the zerg train topped off.
The point is you want to know when to go in, and when to run. As well follow your commander’s lead in discord and use water fields as need. When going in use oil slick and 5 to stun them and use 3 to charge in. 2 is good for shield against range attacks so is 4 is a great block too. You have the health to charge in and take a few hits. Your damage comes primarily from 2 3 and 5. The aoe burst potential is nice.
WELL sorry for spamming, that’s my wvw scrapper build and experience I have. I already did all of wood chest and working on bronze. I pug with commanders in jade quarry and I follow the comm’s advice on discord. I do pretty good. I am all exotics so if you use ascended sentinel and ascended soldier – you may get even tankier. Sentinal armor is extremely expansive. Don’t buy the jewelry unless you have gems and thousands of gold to blow. The sentinel armor is good enough. The sentinel hammer is surprisingly cheap and works with good stats. (exotic hammer) to me 18 gold is cheap. But 40 gold + is expensive.
Hope my build helps someone. I get good pips and good rewards every night. Scrapper is fun for me and my new main.