Guild Wars 2

So the burst skills of both the Mace (Skull Crack) and Hammer (Earthshaker) seem to have both the exact same effect of stunning for 2 seconds and same damage.

Except Skull Crack is single target and Earthshaker has 600 range!

Is there ANY reason whatsoever to use Skull Crack over Earthshaker? I don’t understand the balance here…

You can wield a second weapon with a mace but not with a hammer.

The Hammer is also a fair bit slower to attack with.

Mace is less cumbersome with shorter windups on all of it’s attacks, and allows the versatility of having another weapon in the OH. It also has a legit interrupt in the MH slot that comes out near instantly.

Why not both?

Seriously, i use both, and since earthshaker will be on 10 second CD, and other CC moves have longer CD’s, switch to mace/mace, tremor, hilt bash, block an attack, skull crack, switch to hammer, repeat