Guild Wars 2

Hey so I’m a fairly inexperienced guardian player, but dragonhunter has me titillated with the possibilities of builds and the like.

So from my understanding, during the trait revamp, hammer builds basically died out. Why is that? Is it because of glacial heart’s trait placement?

And do you guys think hammer builds could function better with DH since you’ll have more upclose pressure with traps (RoW them inside the traps hehehehe)? Or will it just be better to run GS/LB since GS is easier to do work with?

Dragonhunter can definitely offer some options. I’m a little unsure about the traps and DH traits, but this is something you could see being run.
Hambow DH

I tried DH H/LB and it sucks like guard with no DH. Slow attacks bad burst. G/LB is way better. If glacial heart goes back where it should be than it may be good. Havent seen hammer guard for ages.

Ragnarox.9601:

I tried DH H/LB and it sucks like guard with no DH. Slow attacks bad burst. G/LB is way better. If glacial heart goes back where it should be than it may be good. Havent seen hammer guard for ages.

I’ve tried DH Hambow high burst builds and… i’ve 1v2’d people with the bursts i was able to create. Didn’t pick a single trap, mind you.

The major differences is pretty much Bow DPS Zerkers + Trueshot has been phenomenal as well as Bow#5’s AoE burst damages. You just have to be incredibly careful with certain instant burst Thieves, Mesmers, other melee teleporting Power Guardians. Basically if you’re immediately in melee range, you will underperform every time.

Oh, and I used Sig of Hydromancy + Intel Sigils/Air sigs on Hammer. The JI + Weaponswitch + Hammer#2+Smite Condition, can be quite a powerful burst. That alone can and will down any glass Thief or Mesmer. I usually save it for when I get heavy bursted myself since players don’t usually think about being defensive during a huge offensive burst.

Thanks for the input guys, it’s a playstyle that I like a lot with base meditations and such. I assume with meditations you’d run valor/virtues/DH, but with traps would it be more feasible to take zeal or honor over valor for the symbol traits? While I’m not a fan of metabattle, they seem to think that hammer meditations works best with honor right now.