Guild Wars 2

So I generally run a variation of the skullcracker build, often times tho I find that I wish I had a little range, and a bit more aoe for when my grop of 4-8 hits things of larger size. Title says it all, im curious if it would be viable to run a longbow/hammer build and setup. Reason for the hammer for me is simple, we generally train the thief, me, and an ele on our assist train, and the hammer is AMAZING at locking a target down so me and the other dps can just stomp it. Keep in mind this is all in reference to WvW only. Any suggestions on its viability ? or would I just be better off going longbow / sword sword? how good would that weapon choice be with 4-8 players etc?

For a DPS build that combo would work. Lay down combustive shot and then lock the enemy down in the fire field.

In WvW you’d get destroyed due to lack of mobility. I make sure to always have either sword or GS in one of my weapon sets for the escapes since I try to avoid zergs and prefer if they can’t catch me.

I ran it for a long time in WvW, works good for group fights 5v5, 10v10. Not great for solo roaming due to lack of gap closers and mobility. Awesome for when you are on the defense holding a choke point or a opening in a tower wall. I’d go 30 disc to get burst mastery and have enough prec to get a least 80% crit chance with unsuspecting foe. No need to trait the LB.