I was getting tired of playing Axe/Mace-Sword/Shield(and sometime Longbow) and needed something different. After reading a couple threads about the hammer in WvW I decided to give it a go and I was impressed by how well it performs in WvW. I’ve tried a several different builds over the past couple weeks and I have finally settled on this build.
We’ve been out manned pretty much every night on my server for the past couple months and find myself defending our turf most of the time. So I paired the Hammer with the most useful tower defense weapon in my arsenal, the Longbow. The gear and accessories are a mix of zerk, soldier, and cavalier with lyssa runes cause that is what I have and can’t afford to get anything different at the moment so I build everything around that.
This build doesn’t have a lot of mobility/disengagement skills cause running only means I will die tired and if a thief or D/D ele want to chase me there is nothing I can do about it no matter what traits of skills I have. Plus, I like to fight to the death. It does however, have good sustain damage with decent spikes and enough survivability to stay in prolonged battles.
SoS and SoR give me 2 condition wipes and Balance Stance is just a requirement in my opinion. These 3 traits get used to push through enemy AoE fields when running out of a zerg that I just stunned and crippled. The only draw back is that SoS and SoR aren’t instant and sometimes get interrupted in which case I die. I got Bulls Charge on my bar for a little more mobility/gap closer but it often gets changed out for Fear Me Endure Pain or BoD depending on the situation.
So far I’m loving this build and have been farming badges like crazy since I changed to it. Hope you will like it too.
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