Guild Wars 2

Hi my name is Sascha im from Austria,

I wanted to hear the Opinions from you Guys about my Thoughts.
I play mostly PVE because i like it so i tried the Crit hammer Build from Brutaly. i highly recommend it.
But i think it just does not feel right. So i wanted to try something else so thougt about Mace/Shield-Sword/Focus, Traits should be 0/5/30/30/5 but i think i will slighly change it becaus these are the Traits from the Crithammer Build who builds on Altruistic Healing. I also want to build on it becaus i just love this Trait. I think the Boons from Mace and Shield should be enough to compensate from the loss of the Hammer. Yeah the Damage will drop becau i dont have Mighty Blow but i think i can compensat with it with the survivability and mor change to sword/focus.
I will test it the next Day.
Also i wanted to ask if there are any Build with Scepters in it because i used in on a Boss in a Dungeon and the Damage was not bad 50% crit chance and every crit is 1800-2000 , i think thera are also some nice Possibilities.
These are just my Thoughts hope they are not so bad.

Best regards,
;)

You can’t compensate for a loss of permanent protection on survivability. Even if you can extend Symbol of Faith to near permanent (doable with some boon duration runes and Writ of Persistence), protection is just better for survivability, especially when there’s a lot of incoming hits at once. Also, unless you have right-handed strength in Radiance with sword/torch, a hammer will out damage it. And when you switch to sword, your survivability will go down comparing to a guy just facerolling with a hammer and get the best of both world, offense and defense.

Not to say that mace for 0/5/30/30/5 wouldn’t work, but I can’t see a reason to use it instead of a hammer.

Ok thx for the clear answere. It seems i did not quite understand the meaning of the hammer. I thought it does not feel right becaus the meaning was that every one of the group must always stand in the ring so i get enough heal, and that was just impossible.
So i thought that other weapons woulb be better. Hmm its a shame, but i think i just dont like the hammer very much, but to have the most survivability and damage i must go with hammer or?

I like to call the hammer a “jack of all trade” weapon. Its damage is very good with the best chain attack in the game when traits into Writ of Persistence. For defense, you have permanent protection. On support, your group can stand in the symbol and leech the protection. The hammer also has a 5 seconds (4 if traited) recharge blast finisher. And finally, your #3, #4, and #5 of a hammer are fantastic for control. It certainly is the best all around weapon for guardian.