Guild Wars 2

Hello, I just started playing GW2 and wanted to try some PvP now when my Warrior is level 17. I searched the forums and found that Hambow is the best PvP specc, found different variations of it, but I chose the one that was in the middle of pure power and pure survivability and so now I’ve specced into that specc and need help.

But I wonder, what is the ultimate rotation of this specc? Plus, do I do more damage with my Hammer if I stand in the fire of my Longbow’s burst AoE attack?

Extra: I’ll add some info that might help to know exactly how I specced.
Traits: 0/0/30/10/30
Traitskills:
(30) Defense: Dogged March, Cleansing Ire, Merciless Hammer
(10) Tactics: Leg Specialist
(30) Discipline: Signet Mastery, Destruction of the Empowered, Burst Mastery

Heal, Utility and Elite Skills:

Heal: Healing Signet
Utility: Endure Pain, Berserker Stance, Dolyak Signet
Elite: Signet of Rage

Gear:

Runes on armor: Elyssa
Sigil on weapons: Hammer has 15% extra stun duration and Bow gets 3 stacks of might when I switch to it.
Amulet: Berserker. (Here the choice was between 30% more crit with Berserker or 3k hp more with Soldier. I thought I want more crit when I damage people who I stun. and went with Berserker)

Summary: If anyone knows this specc good enough it would be lovely if you could help me figure out the rotation and basic thoughts about this specc and it’s gimmicks! Thanks

Stack might on your fire field, spam cc’s, stomp dead guy on recieving end. Use Soldier Amulet, the damage difference is not big, survival difference is huge.

Yeah, use soldier. Youre also forgetting the toughness that comes with soldier.Your main role as hambow is bunker mid in the big team fight

Thanks for the help, just one question about the fire field!

How am I supposed to get stacks of might from my fire field of my Longbow’s burst attack? I just read all traits and utility skills and didn’t see any of them making me gain might stacks from the fire field that my Longbow creates. Thanks again!

Johnybebad.3175:

Thanks for the help, just one question about the fire field!

How am I supposed to get stacks of might from my fire field of my Longbow’s burst attack? I just read all traits and utility skills and didn’t see any of them making me gain might stacks from the fire field that my Longbow creates. Thanks again!

Build Adrenaline, use F1 (your burst skill) it creates a fire field. Then your use Blast finishers, #3 bow, and you can swap to your hammer and use F1 before the fire field dies. With 30 into Disciply and Burst Mastery traited you should be able to do F1 on bow, swap and F1 right away even if you have no adrenaline gain between the F1s.

You should read this also:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Combo

Oh okey! Then I’ll try that more then I thought it was good somehow to do my attacks in the fire, just didn’t know why! Thanks!

Since you are using Lyssa runes. Use signet of Rage when you have a lot of conditions on you.

Lyssa runes isn’t good because of the boons, Lyssa runes is good because of the condi removal.

After hammer 5 or hammer 4, make sure to use hammer 2. Weakness will cut down enemy dps.

Berserk Hambow = High dps, high control and low survival.
Soldier Hambow = Mid dps, high control and mid survival.

I prefer Beserk Hambow myself. More damage and control.

These are my preferences for hambow.

Zerker build(offensive): http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIAQJASTjkOxwpQGPMxBEkCNsKMK+BxT9wO2w4A-ToAg0CnICSFkLITQygsBNEZJC

the above build is capable of 25 stacks of might with Signet of Rage active, and generally 20+ish without it. Capable of 5k arcing shots.

Soldier build(Defensive): http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIAQJASTjkOxwpQGPMxBEMDNsKsH+B1D7APiDA-ToAA1CtIKSVkrITRyisFNEZ9B

Still capable of 25 stacks of might(double might or double endurance are both fine, but I find one might and one endurance to work well with this build because of 5 second swapping) Insane ammounts of dodging; vigor on stance, energy sigil, free dodge every burst skill. Using lyssa for this build for even more condi cleansing. Overall very strong defense with still good damage. What you lose vs zerker with this build is, confusion on interupts, 3% damage per boon on target, 49% crit vs 12%, and 20% crit damage(you could almost say 50% crit damage just because the soldiers version crit is only 12% chance).

I find merciless hammer a nice trait, but not as good as the other traits available.

Oh and, utilitys are optional to your preference. Condi cleanse/endurance regeneration signet, and endure pain are all usefull.

To the rotation part, I prefer opening with the bow in most fights, especially group, to build up adrenaline and wait for people to use cooldowns/blow defenses. At this time when I feel its a good time to open, I use Bow burst, arcing arrow, swap, earthshaker(inside the fire field from bow burst). The rest of the time depends on what happens next in the fight. I usually play the zerker build, so I open with signet of rage when I begin my burst and try to maintain tons of might. To maintain might just follow the above rotation. Don’t forget to swap weapons often too. Arcing arrow and Hammer 2 will do decent burst when combined one after the other. However don’t only use hammer 2 as damage, weakness is pretty strong at reducing damage. Bow 4 blind is great for stopping a strong offensive ability. Bow 5 can be used defensively or offensively. It’s also a great way to keep a target inside your fire field while you burst and stack your might at the same time.

Don’t forget burst skills remove conditions. The bow burst skill doesn’t need a target to remove conditions.