If you used a hammer, you could essentially spam symbols of protection and throw out large amounts of retaliation without even thinking much. Protection is one of the best boons for tanking. If you took Signet of Judgement and traited to make symbols heal allies, that’d be pretty tanky. You’d probably want to take the Altruistic Healing trait in addition to all those.
The hammer’s purpose is a lot of crowd control. You can wall enemies off rather well, send a particular one flying if you wish with an aoe line immobilise. Hammer most certainly isn’t a weapon where blindly mashing keys will make you win though. It’s best to save the #3, #4 and #5 skills for when they’re needed.
Mace and hammer have the spammiest symbols around so using Honour traits can really help you out with tankiness and support. Huge protection symbols that heal allies? Awesome.
Silver Stormshield – Guardian
Kaimoon Blade – Warrior
Fort Aspenwood
so i can keep swapping