Guild Wars 2

In radiance, place Signet of Wrath trait to Radiant Power. Move Glacial heart out of virtues and add to radiance open slot. The open slot in virtues gets replaced with the new skill -“Elite Power” a hybrid of sorts of an older trait that was removed when we lost tomes.

Elite Power – elite skills recharge faster and damage foes while activating.
– FMW , burst damage
– RF , damage tick
– SoC , aoe burn tick

what do you think about this?

Seeing as hammer is a weapon based around symbol use and zeal has allot of symbol traits the hammer trait really should be in zeal.

While they are at it they could also really stand to do a good pass over of zeal and merge/shuffle around several of its major & minor traits. As is its kind of clunky.

PvP wise hammer is dead ever since the JI nerf.

Ragnar the Rock.3174:

Seeing as hammer is a weapon based around symbol use and zeal has allot of symbol traits the hammer trait really should be in zeal.

While they are at it they could also really stand to do a good pass over of zeal and merge/shuffle around several of its major & minor traits. As is its kind of clunky.

“Seeing as hammer is a weapon based around symbol”.. your confused at least.
let me be be clear, im not pve but pvp biased

Pyriel.4370:

PvP wise hammer is dead ever since the JI nerf.

well, glacial heart in virtue trait line does need to be addressed ; please address a solution rather then a complaint. thanks

I I.7359:

Pyriel.4370:

PvP wise hammer is dead ever since the JI nerf.

well, glacial heart in virtue trait line does need to be addressed ; please address a solution rather then a complaint. thanks

Hammer is extremely telegraphed and being able to combo either banish or mighty blow with Judge’s Intervention was key to a viable hammer build in PvP (where that trait choice is usually conflicted). Now that you cannot cast JI in midair, the hammer for guardian is just not going to work well in PvP and moving glacial heart won’t fix that, as the hammer is too telegraphed.

Solution? Make JI castable in midair and switch glacial heart’s place with honorable staff.

I agree JI is ,for what ever reason, broke with last patch. Glacial Heart in virtues is a joke and I believe many would agree with this.

If you wanna play hammer just w8 for HOT and do like me, byebye guardian and the stupid DH and hello my dear scrapper

I I.7359:

Ragnar the Rock.3174:

Seeing as hammer is a weapon based around symbol use and zeal has allot of symbol traits the hammer trait really should be in zeal.

While they are at it they could also really stand to do a good pass over of zeal and merge/shuffle around several of its major & minor traits. As is its kind of clunky.

“Seeing as hammer is a weapon based around symbol”.. your confused at least.
let me be be clear, im not pve but pvp biased

Even so putting it in zeal would open up some interesting choices for builds if that line were cleaned up a bit.

Marvinus.4780:

If you wanna play hammer just w8 for HOT and do like me, byebye guardian and the stupid DH and hello my dear scrapper

Sadly after 3 years this is what I’m also thinking.

And why not the engineer can do absolutely everything the guardian can do but better with only 1 exception. That exception is AOE stability application.

Ragnar the Rock.3174:

I I.7359:

Ragnar the Rock.3174:

Seeing as hammer is a weapon based around symbol use and zeal has allot of symbol traits the hammer trait really should be in zeal.

While they are at it they could also really stand to do a good pass over of zeal and merge/shuffle around several of its major & minor traits. As is its kind of clunky.

“Seeing as hammer is a weapon based around symbol”.. your confused at least.
let me be be clear, im not pve but pvp biased

Even so putting it in zeal would open up some interesting choices for builds if that line were cleaned up a bit.

The main reason for radiance line would be to allow for justice is blind , which as you know buys us a split second to get the burst off and a less likely chance of being interrupted. I think it could work in zeal as a general 2 handed weapon trait or replace Blinding jeopardy or kindle zeal. BTW kindled zeal and JiB would be better suited in the same trait line,imo.

The easyest and most simple fix on the hammer is to invert the chain and make the first attack be the long one that puts the simbol down.

Right now, hammer is only good for aoe dumb mobs, if in hot mobs will be moving around, hammer is going the way of the dodo.