Guild Wars 2

I love the animations and style of Revenant’s hammer but it feels really sluggish. Is that on purpose? I might understand if it’s related to Quickness and Impossible Odds.

How are you liking the hammer?

Yes they are sluggish, because you are operating the heaviest weapon in the game. The damage of the skills makes up for it I believe and I like it :-)

Yes all 4 damaging skills are rather slow, but they are powerful, I think they are fine as they are

As above. If they sped up the animations, they’d have to reduce damage dramatically. I like them as they are now, because the animations have a lot of “weight” to them, meaning the attacks feel like they hit hard. The autoattack is slow, but makes up for it in a variety of ways.

The only thing I’d change is to have the skill 5 show the Juggernaut hammer when wielding that legendary weapon.

As for speed, I’m perfectly fine with it for the same reasons as already stated above.

Cool. I’m probably doing something wrong because it usually takes me some time to kill with it, compared to my other characters… Either way, I find it fun

Thanks for your replies!

It is intentionally being slow because the dps is actually way too high as a range weapon.
It serves as a semi-counter play to other classes.

Regardless of slow speed, it’s still a high dps weapon with LOTS of utility value. (Projectile denial, life leech, evade, range burst)

PS: I’d like to know your gear or trait set-up to see your problem. Hammer dps is by no means low.

My Rev;s hammer can hit up to 4~4.5k per hit, and 6~8.5k with hammer 2.
This damage modifier on average is higher than my LB ranger when you factor in CD.

I love the hammer. Every single skill on it, and the feel of it. Slow, but powerful.
As said above, there’s reasons for being slow. But if needed, we have the option to turn Impossible Odds before casting them to make them faster. While this is not a hammer skill, it’s a option to make things easier at the cost of needing a legend and consuming energy. Try it!

Zax.6170:

Cool. I’m probably doing something wrong because it usually takes me some time to kill with it, compared to my other characters… Either way, I find it fun

Thanks for your replies!

Hammer is a weapon that shines against multiple targets and trash mobs. If fighting a single, tougher enemy, you will be better served in melee unless that isn’t an option.

Hammer is very highly damaging, has a projectile destroying skill, evade, knockdown, 1200 range auto what more do you want? You can also quick up the animations by using impossible odds. It shines best in group settings.

In a real situation instead of a spreadsheet the hammer outshines our other weapons. Mobs that run in our direction and get hammered by several hits before getting lose, little to no downtime since we’re not spending time dodging and recovering HP from the inevitable autoattacks.

And despite its DPS being low (read, damage per second, not simply damage) it has a great burst that easily two shots open world critters, even HoT ones.

Of course that if it is a single critter, or an easy boss, by all means, switch to the sword once close enough.

So no, hammer’s fine.

Hammer is slow jeah. Its slow for guardians and warriors too. Only profession who has “fast” hammer skills seems to be the engineer. Its skill #2, #3 and #4 happen almost instantly.

I do think having hammer as a slow weapon is good, but still I would like to have a skill like engineer hammer #4 block. But maybe it doens’t fit the way revenant uses hammer.

Hammer is good in pve, but in pvp its situational. Any skilled player know to go to your face when fighting in pvp. Especially on points. This makes bunker builds kind of weak because anything in point radius can easily be countered on Hammer since it auto interrupt from LoS. Its good if all you do is range and not a bunker fighter.

The H4 skill is too far from body to be used on a point.

H2 does best damage at max range, which on a point wont be the case.

H3 is great for triggering traps, and evade, but very sluggish activation and mechanics.

H5 great hard CC, just slow time on activation makes it easy to avoid by simple movement but great on point.

Without shiro you may have issues.

I hope you all noticed rev hammer AA is the slowest in the game. 1 sec cast + flight time

Hammer is perfect as it is (minus issues with terrain and range of attack 3).
It’s slow, hits hard so you need to time well certain things. Making it hit like wet noodle as it did in first beta would be quite sad.