Guild Wars 2

I recently started playing warrior in tPvP matches and I was looking for a hammer build, it was quite hard since everyone goes with mace+shield/gs but I’ve found Defektive’s pvp hammer build. After using it for a while I started making changes and tailored it to meet my needs. The build is:

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fIAQNAS5ejcOpwxOGPMxBE0DNsK4iTBlQ9YOsj4A-T0AA1CtIKSVkrITRyisFNKYhwugTBvCA

It’s super effective while moving with the rest of your team. You can totally put out off combat 1 enemy player occasionally CCing the rest of enemy team. You can easily solo most of the professions and the support provided to the team is just priceless. Berserkers die within the stunlock.

The biggest disadvantage are:
- easily countered with stability- you have to keep track of enemy stability buffs, having necro who converts buffs into debuffs helps a lot.
- not very effective vs bunker builds- I still have problems facing bunker scepter guard but those you never face solo so it’s not that big of an issue.

Traits:
0/10/30/0/30

IV from Arms- a must have
II, IX, X from Defense- also a must have
VI, XI from Discipline- III is optional, I take it for the mobility. I guess you could also swap the signet mastery for something else but it reduces the cd on both signets (of Dolyak and Rage) by 12 seconds. If you don’t take this trait you should swap Dolyak Signet for Balanced State.

I go with runes of Lyssa. From sigils +5% dmg on hammer and 5% dmg + 15% stun duration on swap. Soldier’s amulet with soldier’s jewel.

So, that’s it. It is not solo build since it takes much time to kill someone but I’m not saying it’s impossible. Moving with your team is basically a free win. There are also professions that will neither kill you neither you kill them (at least in my case, I think I still need a lot of practice). I duoqueue with my wife (guard) and we have a lot of fun when I play my stunlock warrior.

I don’t know, if someone has any ideas or played similar build and has some helpful opinions, questions or anything let me know.

I hope it’s something original, if positive I reserve a name for it: The Nutcracker

Yeah that’s pretty much the standard build you can go. A couple options to explore would be changing warrior sprint for destruction of empowered for a stronger burst start esp against boon heavy classes. However with the amount of boon strip these days I’m not quite sure if that would be that great either. Also if you get lyssa corrupted too much, hoelbrak or melandru are also good rune options.

My tPvP hammer / mace+shield build

Don’t worry, you are only the 50th person to try to claim this build. I used almost an exact copy of this build over a month ago. I also had a build that had a similar focus before mace was really worth using mainhand, which was A/M H (about 7-8 months ago). Anyway, this build and similar builds have been posted multiple times. It’s more of like a common sense build than anything that can be claimed. There aren’t any hard choices really. The traits are pretty much the same in every version and the utilities generally bounce around between the obvious choices. No offense intended, just saying.

Here is one of many by the way:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/warrior/Matale-s-Hammer-sPvP-Duels-and-Strats-1/first#post2574366

Ashanor.5319:

Don’t worry, you are only the 50th person to try to claim this build.

I’m not trying to claim anything, goober. When I was looking for the build I only found the Defektive’s one. The one that was posted by Metale back then was:
http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fIAQNAS5ejcOtuxOqQMRCEkCNkLOFUC1D74OijUBxA-TsAA1CnIMSZkzIjRSjsGNQYhw2CA

Sorry I was hoping that I share something someone might find useful.

Besides as you can see his post was made 5 days ago and I’m using this build over a week now. That only confirms how good it is if so many people started using it.

vove.2768:

Ashanor.5319:

Don’t worry, you are only the 50th person to try to claim this build.

I’m not trying to claim anything, goober. When I was looking for the build I only found the Defektive’s one. The one that was posted by Metale back then was:
http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fIAQNAS5ejcOtuxOqQMRCEkCNkLOFUC1D74OijUBxA-TsAA1CnIMSZkzIjRSjsGNQYhw2CA

Sorry I was hoping that I share something someone might find useful.

Besides as you can see his post was made 5 days ago and I’m using this build over a week now. That only confirms how good it is if so many people started using it.

< Matale

I think you’re probably confusing it with one of my post-beta WvW builds/videos. I started focusing more on sPvP about a month ago when I noticed how much better competition was and after initially playing one of my WvW GS Mace/Shield builds I switched to Hammer Mace/Shield. I’m also playing 0/10/30/0/30 and if you take a look at my post (linked at the bottom) I posted a “how to / tips” vs all professions and a 50 minutes long dueling montage.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/warrior/Matale-s-Hammer-sPvP-Duels-and-Strats-1/first#post2574366

But anyways, yeah, it’s a really great build; I started playing it because I couldn’t beat mesmers as GS Mace/Shield in sPvP and the main complaint I always heard from them was the lack of stability so I tried Hammer and was really happy with the result. It’s a build that can beat any profession as long as you play it right and you bring quite a bit of utility through your stuns for your team.

Sorry for misspelling the nick, didn’t know you are Spaniard, I could swear it said Metale under one of your youtube videos

I don’t know from when it was but it is very possible since I started using Defektive’s build due to being up to date, didn’t see your newer one. I think it’s a matter of positioning in google with time as I didn’t search through forums.

I tried GS / mace+shield and i totally didn’t like it. Much easier to kite and very limited mobility. Swapping gs for a hammer and making few changes in traits gets much more control than you would have with gs. Also it is affected by stability, but in my opinion gs + mace/shield is much easier to counter with stability than the hammer.

I still cannot say I’m master of this build but I finally managed to win over bunker guard. I trolled him to get outside the capture point, claimed it and ran away. He chased but didnt got me and we got quite many points for that capture. So I can’t say I beat him to death but surely was a win.

Also what you will get a lot: check attachment.