Guild Wars 2

Hi, i’m running with berserker gears with fighter runes. Currently i have 2.9k power, 2.8k armor, 800 heal, 35%crit chance and 50% crit damage. I am using hammaer and GS as back up (sometimes change to sword/focus). I mainly do WvW and runing with some guildies.

I wish to do some hybrid damage but always find hard to kill player in 1v1 and 1v2 situations. So I wanna learn some play skill as a guardian hammer if anyone can give me some suggestion. Like some play combo or adjust of my gears.

Ah, worth to mention that i m using 0-5-30-30-5 trait. So sometimes i play support roll in team.

Thanks for your time.
Bill Ge

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I mostly do just sPvP, so I have little ideas about stats, but an important part of being a good Hammer Guardian is knowing when you shouldn’t use your Hammer. What’s your other weapon set?

Also, with those traits 1v1 will mostly be an endurance fight for you. Just do what you can to stay alive and wear out the opponent.

As for tricks specific to the Hammer: Try to keep Retaliation up (see above) with your finisher. It triggers of both your Symbol and Ring of Warding.
By combining the last three skills (Start with Banish), you can get quite some breathing room against melee opponents, which can be useful for letting your health replenish through passive effects.

Ynna.8769:

I mostly do just sPvP, so I have little ideas about stats, but an important part of being a good Hammer Guardian is knowing when you shouldn’t use your Hammer. What’s your other weapon set?

Also, with those traits 1v1 will mostly be an endurance fight for you. Just do what you can to stay alive and wear out the opponent.

As for tricks specific to the Hammer: Try to keep Retaliation up (see above) with your finisher. It triggers of both your Symbol and Ring of Warding.
By combining the last three skills (Start with Banish), you can get quite some breathing room against melee opponents, which can be useful for letting your health replenish through passive effects.

Thanks for your replay. I’m interested in the idea that u say about retaliation. Can explain a bit more on that why its good for a hammer user?

And FYI I’m using GS(sometimes Chang to sword/focus) as back up weapon. This is mainly because I sometimes find difficulty to catch some range players. So GS @3 and sword @2 will be helpful.

mrauls.6519:

Post a screenshot of your stats/equipment so we can get a better idea of what to tell you

Yep, sure! I’ll do it tonight after work. Thanks for your willing to help.

BILL GE.8716:

Thanks for your replay. I’m interested in the idea that u say about retaliation. Can explain a bit more on that why its good for a hammer user?

And FYI I’m using GS(sometimes Chang to sword/focus) as back up weapon. This is mainly because I sometimes find difficulty to catch some range players. So GS @3 and sword @2 will be helpful.

Retaliation is just a lot of passive damage that requires minimal effort on your part. When using a defensive build, it’s part of what will eventually let you defeat your opponent, since they don’t have the luxury of not attacking you. It’s not specifically good for a Hammer user, but just for defensive builds in general. You won’t be hitting as hard as the enemy but Retaliation can cause “death of a thousand cuts”.

And those are probably good secondary options. What I’d do in 1v1 is smack them about a bit with the Hammer until you’ve forced them to use their heal. As soon as they’ve done that, switch the your offensive weapon and do as much damage as you can.

I’m a commander on Jade Quarry who focuses on melee front lines obviously:but this would require you to somewhat switch your setup,more than a bit:however I do wander sometimes and I handle in 1v1 just as fine as leading big zergs. I use sword/shield+Hammer. Message me personally whether it be in game or a message on the forums.