Personally I think its meh, only because I was expecting a bit more when I read the “Hammer Time” post that’s a bit down the page. Now I don’t normally post on forums or make suggestions for that matter but I saw this new trait and thought of this:
Glacial Heart (Valor: VIII)
Critical hits with a Hammer have a 50% chance to apply chill to your target for 4 seconds. (This can only be applied once every 45 seconds)
First of all the cool down is kind of long. I think 30 seconds might have been a little better considering you can get a better proc rate out of sigils. Second, I was thinking maybe the symbol from the #1 combo could be moved to #2 mighty blow, giving it a cooldown rather than such a long cast time. Just an idea…
Now given those 2 things:
Change Zeal: XII (Zealots Blade) to Greatswords/HAMMERS heal you, and Zeal: VII (Greatsword Power) to Greatsword/HAMMER damage is increased by 5%. That could easily be overpowered though, so maybe a “one or the other” type combination? Greatsword +5% dmg and then Hammers heal possibly?
Obviously the traits would need a name changes, but hear me out. The method behind all this madness is because the Guardian could then use 2h sword/hammer combo as their counter to every others classes “dual wield” abilities. Again, just my thoughts. The build would be a lower damage mitigation, but higher regeneration using both a Greatsword and Hammer (not at the same time, but through weapon swaping).
The build I’m thinking would look similar to this:
http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#MccM0z9Mm9mm9mx0GG0zkbVRMs
Note* Defender’s Shield (Previously Valor: VIII) “Gain +90 toughness while wielding a shield” is now merged with Honorable Shield and has been replaced by Glacial Heart (Valor: VIII) which I described above. I used Defender’s Shield as a placeholder for the new trait in this build.
An alternate to the healing trait I was asking for above, you could take the 10 points from there and apply it to the Valor tree and get heals from applying boons (through shouts).
I’m not much a theorycrafter so I’m not sure which would be better, or if any of this is even valid at all. I had an idea and ran with it. Figured I’d share. Sorry for the long post , but please let me know what you think
*Edited because I didn’t know that Defender’s Shield was moved, I thought it was removed.
(edited by Spinecheck.1653)