Guild Wars 2

Go pure survivability get a hammer and win every fight.

/treadclosed.

Hammer’s OP. Greatsword’s OP. Longbow’s the best weapon. Sword/Warhorn is amazing. Axes are amazing. Maces and Shields are amazing. Bleed Rifle/Swords is amazing.

Soon Hammer/Mace-Warhorn is going to be OP for weakness stacking. Then the Sword/Rifle bleed stacking build will be OP. Then Longbow’s combo field will turn OP. Axes with combo fields and the ability to dodge while whirling will be OP.

Just trying to cover all the near-future bases.

3 out of 5 skills require the warrior to stop moving while wielding a hammer. If you can’t avoid them,you will pay the price.

Learn to play issues really.

Which 3? Because I use a hammer, and it’s only 2 that are used situationally anyway. The roots cause me 0 problems.

Which 3? Because I use a hammer, and it’s only 2 that are used situationally anyway. The roots cause me 0 problems.

Hammering Shock and Stagering Blow root you in place, Backbreaker has a verry long animation but you still can move.

Against hammer worrior you can run stability which takes away all his cc and the 25% damage boost.

Lmao now Hammer is OP.

Wait for it….
Waaaait for it….

1 Month Later

Warhorn is OP!!! Nerf Warriors!! Waaaaaaaaah!

If you get caught by a hammer warrior and you’re stuck in melee range, either he’s a better player or he’s a better player, simple as that. The severe lack of mobility with hammer makes it very bad against classes that can kite with ease. Paired correctly with mobility weapons, and the warrior is a bigger threat. It’s less the hammer being OP, and more tactical use of weapon swapping being OP. Which, y’know, is an intended part of the game.

Haha hammer warrior.

All i need to do is pop stability (and what good warrior doesn’t have stability), which negates the entire hammer line and then beat the warrior to death in <5 seconds. Even if my stability is down i have access to shield and mace stuns and x2 dodges. more than enough a counter whilst I win. It’s an easy to beat/slow weapon with poor dps.

It’s only a good spec when you combine it with other players who know what they’re doing. All you are is a stun/knockdown bot. Effective yes, but 1v1 you do nothing.

Don’t know if troll or…

You base this on what? 1v1? The game is meant for the team to work together because end-game goals would be to win tournaments when it comes to PvP. Hammer is a good weapon especially for control but it is in no way overpowered. Dodging, condition removal, and understanding the signs of the swings is a good way to avoid some of the Hammers skills.

All the good Hammer attacks have a range of 130 (!), you basically have to be on top of someone or all you will see is miss miss miss.

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All the good Hammer attacks have a range of 130 (!), you basically have to be on top of someone or all you will see is miss miss miss.

Not only that, but you lack any really mobility to stay on top of someone. I did however find that Leg Specialist works at a range with the Hammer 3, ergo if someone is trying to run you can hit that without being right next to them and get a 1-sec immobilize into a cripple.

You know I’m starting to wonder if the same group of guys get together in every MMO that comes out to cry that the “warrior” class is OP, regardless of if it is or not. /eyeroll

Even though it’s a troll I would like to comment that there is no “tank” spec for warriors. The healing traits have all but been universally deemed not worth the points, the banner regen is pathetic and shout healing is nothing more than a speedbump in the way of the damage everyone puts out in TPvP while simultaneously completely kittening your damage output due to stacking full healing stats in order to see even a tiny 2k heal for your trouble.

The hammer is fun, but I urge you to try it. It’s slow as molasses and having faced off against more than a few warriors attempting to wield the hammer the majority of the time using dodge is not even required because of it. Just circle strafe out of the 130 swing range during the long animation wind up, wait for the warrior to wiff, then continue wiping his face in the mud.

The warrior has fundamental issues that prevent it from being a top position holder in a serious TPvP team comp. For a bunker you are far better off with a guard, engineer or even a necro. For a ranged damage roamer ANY of the ranged classes are better at the job and for a melee roamer a guard, thief or mesmer will do that job better. Sure a random HB>FZ combo will nuke someone when all of his CD’s are used up or he was preoccupied and unaware of the GS war incoming but that’s part of the problem- the GS “warrior” is basically a ganker class moreso than the thief, it requires a crippled or bad opponent to mop face with. Against a decent player a simple dodge negates the whole thing.

The main reason that the other classes are better for these respective roles is the utility they provide to the group and the synergy of their skills. Compare say the guardians block (pick one of many, we’ll go with shield for example) with the warriors shield block. The guardian block performs the same damage mitigation function as the warrior, but the warrior shield block simply acts as a stall. A simple delay. He’s not doing anything else during those 3 seconds. That’s it’s only function. The guardian S5 however can be used as area denial to push opponents off of a node, it has a group heal tied to it and can be used to interrupt stomps/rez’s as well.

Hammer warriors OP? Hardly. It’s a useful weapon but as a class the warrior is still lacking in so many areas overall.

The famed Quadruple Post.

I had to turn my Eyefinity setup to 3:1 portrait in order to understand the full depth of Braxxus’ point.

I have no idea why it posted 4 times

If you aren’t dodging everything a hammer warrior does that’s even remotely threatening, you’ve got brain problems.