Guild Wars 2

Recently I’ve been playing around in the mists trying to find a hammer/rifle build that suits my concept of a brawler warrior. The NPC training dummy warrior actually has a similar build to the one I want to use, doing combos with hammer control skills along with bull’s charge and stomp.

One thing I don’t understand though, is that fully specced into critical damage/power with full runes of divinity and a berzerker’s set with +5% damage sigils in my hammer, I still average about 2-3k damage criticals under optimal circumstances against that training dummy, while I’m noticing him hitting me for upwards of 4k damage with certain attacks.

Are the dummies in HoTM just powered up, or am I missing something here? That dummy didn’t seem to have any boons on him. No stacks of might or anything. How can I maximise my DPS as a hammer warrior if I want damaging combos like those?

http://forums.coalitiongaming.org/gw/defektives-build-thread/

DPS Variant. Should fit your niche for hammer DPS. (3-5k dmg criticals).

I notice you’re using bloodlust and other buffs to increase your DPS, but that NPC warrior had no buffs at all, and was still hitting for over 4k damage at times.

I think the NPC Warrior is damage buffed to compensate for lack of intelligence. AKA it needs to do more damage to be considered a threat because it doesn’t know how to do complicated things like human players do.

Oh good. so it’s not just my dps sucking, then.