Guild Wars 2

Is this something that’s doable? Like, for just general use. It seems like you’d need a lot of points in Defense for the hammer skills, and then it just seems like since you’re basically building up to be tanky, you’d want points in stuff like Tactics and Discipline to really make use of buffs and warhorns.

I’d really like to make a build that uses banners in a significant way, but it’s honestly a real pain in the kitten juggling multiple banners around, and they can be destroyed by enemy players; seems like shouts are just plain superior to banners for most purposes, and I’ve heard that of the 30-point Tactics skills, the healing shouts skill is pretty much plainly superior to the regenerating banners one.

I feel like the concept might be enough points in Defense to get to the Hammer skill, with points in Discipline to allow rapid weapon swapping, to get access to a warhorn setup (maybe a sword for the mobility?), especially since you can get the warhorn skill that lets you convert conditions to boons, and aiming for 30 points in Tactics for all the benefits it provides.

Mostly I’m picking hammers because hammers are clearly the best weapons in any game, but it does seem like the weapon lends itself well to control, with a lot of methods of stunning or disabling enemies, and an easy way to apply conditions like Weakness.

Has anyone tried something like this? Is it functional?