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Posted by: Bacon Please.8407

Bacon Please.8407

Currently I am in the process of fooling around with Hammers, axe and warhorn, and Longbow (for siege defense and offence). I used to be a GS warrior with axe/shield.

The build I am currently trying to develop would be a WvW build. Now tell me if I am completely wrong but It seems that hammers get little to no love in our trait lines. We have merciless hammer which is in the strangest place on the skill tree. Any-how. I usually run Armor of the Knight Stacking; Power, Precision, and vitality.

Stats before traits and buffs

Power 1640
Precision 1550
Vitality 1200
Toughness 1283
Critical Damage 24%
Critical Chance 34%

I want to have some sustainable damage, not necessarily bursting people down, while still having the ability to hold my own. I am a seasoned WvWvW player, but if I encounter a thief I can’t even get close to holding my own. My best option is to turn the warhorn on and bail. Maybe it is just thieves as a whole but I have no problem with them on a Guardian.

Prior to this I was investing a lot of points into the Strength and Precision with a little bit of tactics and discipline something like

20-25-0-10-15

My average hits with a hammer were around 1.2k-3.5k (depending on which weapon slot skills were used) 800 being the lowest I’ve seen and 4k being around the highest

My utilities usually consist of

Healing surge
Endure pain
Shake it off (played with several other condition removing skills, none worked really well)
and bulls charge for that extra little take down
Signet of rage (because lets face it, it is our best elite but is laughable compared to a lot of other elites In my personal opinion)

I capitalized on leg specialist trait and found it to be near essential. If anyone could recommend some adjustments such as

Trait adjustment
Runes (currently switching between 3 sets, soldiers, divinty, emerald orb)
Sigil adjustment (nullification on hammer)
food recommendations

A lot of what I am being told is to give up on warrior and play my Guardian or Ele however Warrior is my main and I refuse to give up on my favorite class since day 1 of this games beta.

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Posted by: ArtemisEntreri.4138

ArtemisEntreri.4138

My personal opinion is to give hammer a go. It sounds like you do SPvP. Here is what I recommend. You won’t be a roamer and you’re not going to have crazy burst like prior to frenzy nerf but you’ll serve a purpose on the field with your knockdowns and stuns.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIAQNAS8ejcOxu1QuQMxCAkCr4yUooTBlUKsruUBxA;TsAA1CqowxgjAHLOOck4sKYQw+DA

I picked sword + shield for defense and lunge for escapes. The other alternative is to go GS for mobility or you can go Axe/Mace for knockdown, vulnerability, and a burst attack. To switch to more DPS oriented just pop in a Berserker’s ammy and your choice of gem.

Almost 3k attack with hammer, almost 3k armor, and 25k health will keep you alive even when focus fired to give you time to react and the rampage gem + eagle runes give you precision and crit dmg. Toss in a fury buff and you have nearly 48% crit and +50% crit when you stun someone. Hammer hits pretty hard when you couple it with bull’s rush, frenzy (+endure pain if you’re taking damage), and go in and knockdown again, 2,3, 4 and then you’re burst. Non-bunkers are usually scrambling for a stun breaker or heal while trying to run away.

I can’t claim this design completely for myself. Sanny’s video’s inspired me to play a good hammer build since I found guardian’s to be clunky and lackluster and very situational. Your only weakness is conditions and hopefully but running with the group or a class that can cleanse conditions (i.e. guardian) you will be ok. If not, just pick up mending.

I started out Thief(deleted) got tired of pressing a few buttons to win so then I played a guardian and didn’t quite find the dps I was looking for matched with survival. I found a support bunker to be the optimal build for them (healway). I am thoroughly enjoying my warrior now.

Guardian / Warrior / Thief / Necromancer
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Posted by: Bacon Please.8407

Bacon Please.8407

Bad Link. Also I am looking to become a little more of a roamer which is why I run with a warhorn for the swiftness.

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Posted by: Defektive.7283

Defektive.7283

tPvP Warrior
http://www.twitch.tv/defektive
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Posted by: Bacon Please.8407

Bacon Please.8407

This build you put u kitten omething similar to what I had come up with since i started this thread, small differences and I am liking the +30% crit damage already. I’m gonna change a few things around but will take your build into high consideration

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Posted by: Daywolf.2630

Daywolf.2630

I mostly thief in wvw, and engi alt there. I’ll confirm what you said, warriors tend to run away from thieves. I also have a warrior, and yes I’d consider a hammer build. That would mean at least 20 into toughness and that hammer AOE dropping, with both making a more difficult target for thief melee. At least it would give you the ability to last longer until you have backup show up… or he tires and gives up