Guild Wars 2

Can someone please explain to me why the hammer burst-skill Earthshaker is interruptible? Is it misunderstood PvP balance? An oversight?

In my opinion it makes no sense that it is interruptible when it is so easy to dodge.
I don’t PvP all that much, and don’t know if this is a problem in a PvP envirenment, but when running dungeons, I get interrupted mid-air way too often.
I really like the hammer for its crowd-control abilities, but its faulty burst-skill makes it quite a hassle.

I thought something was wrong, when I sometimes didn’t get
my AoE stun done. I will call it a bug, and personally I wouldn’t
want any of the burst skills to be interruptable by other players/enemies.
It just makes them too weak, because as you say, some if not all
of the burst skills, can easily be dodged.

A period of time (albeit small) passes between using the ability and the stun effect. Your character is traveling a distance through the air, and in that half-second or so, you’re vulnerable to instants/predicted interrupts. When NPCs have instant interrupt abilities, the problem is exacerbated, but I use a hammer all the time in PvP and have absolutely no problems with it being interruptible.

Thats the thing then, isent it? If you hardly ever get interrupted in PvP, would it really be OP to make it uninterruptible? The few times I’ve used it PvP, when I didn’t land it, it was because people dodged it.

How do you make it uninterruptible? Give the Warrior 1 second of Stability? Invulnerability? It’s just the nature of the game.

When you’re interrupted in PvE, what interrupts you? Could you jump to the side of it to catch mobs in the damage/stun without just jumping on top of them? Could you use other abilities to try to get the interrupts on CD before using ES? I’m sure we can figure out a way to make it work in PvE, because I highly doubt this’ll be addressed as you’d like.

And this is why Mace is more viable in PvP. In-fact there is no point in choosing Hammer in PvE because all you really need in PvE is damage out-put and survivability through player skill.

WTB Hammer and Long Bow buffs

Well, obviously hammer is lackluster in PvE, being a damage-friendly environment that gets mad and huffy when you try to use nasty things like thinking to disrupt enemies. How DARE you, after all.

It does seem stupid to me to use Earthshaker, fly halfway through the air, have some tiny projectile hit me, and STOP DEAD IN MIDAIR and then fall gently to the ground, all the while in the standing dazed animation. Really. I mean… really.