Guild Wars 2

phaeris.7604:

Julie Yann.5379:

In WvW if a thief dies to a hammer warrior, he seriously need to L2P. Blind is the hammer’s biggest weakness. Avoid shadow refuge if you can, you are just a sitting duck in one of those and like you said, avoid getting locked down.

The hammer itself is not OP. Like it has be said, it’s the traits which stack together that make it OP. Taking a good look at the proposed nerfs, it is clear that Anet is reacting to the PvP Hambow which deals a ridiculous amount of punishment. I guess it easier to destroy the build than to fix it.

Oh how I love that style of answering. If a hammer warrior dies to a thief he seriously need to L2P. See how easy that is?. Can’t beat me? l2P! it’s obviously you!.
I don’t really need to argue as Anet themselves have said the hammer delivers too much damage for a Control based weapon.

I bet if they suddenly upped static field damage to 4k on an elementalist there’d be an uproar! Or lowered the cooldown from 40 seconds to 7 seconds….

Adrenaline regen is so much that your F1 abilities are basically a 6th ability on a 7 sec cooldown(with trait). If earthshaker were an actual ability no way would it be that low of a cooldown. It’d be on a 30-40 second timer at least and 1/4 of the damage.

If you find post patch you’re not as effective the hammer was op and you’re a bad player. If you still find you’re effective then you’d be a good player with whatever weapon set.

I am just speaking from 2k hours of WvW as a Hammer Warrior. Blind spamming thieves are the best at taking down a hammer warrior. You can choose to not to believe it if you don’t want too but it is true.

lethotix.2973:

the hammer is the most telegraphed weapon.i have no problem dodging the attacks especially with ranged classes, and if I do get hit by the cc chain its easy to get out of or negate. ie: stun breakers,blinds,blink/shadowstep/infi strike, distortion….etc. hammer is indeed powerful if hit by the whole cc chain but your just bad if you do. this is indeed a l2p issue. hammer SHOULD NOT be nerfed…whats your opinion on warrior hammer?

The problem is that while that is true for PvP, it is OP in WvW. That’s where it needed the nerf. In large scale fights, you can’t see “the most telegraphed weapon”.

Be happy though, what really needed a nerf was the healing signet, and that escaped.

Well, I’ll be the first to admit that I was worried for nothing. After some messing around with new gear and traits I found a WvW Hammer build that hits just as hard if not harder then the standard 0-10-30-0-30 I use to have while having the same amount of survivability. So all you QQers can keep QQing about the OP Hammer.

Just my observation, but I’m now seeing a freaking ton of pure tank condition builds all running some variant of 0/0/10/30/30 with the points all being in the last 3 trees. Obnoxious to kill and rely on condition damage. Ran into like 3 of them in a single match and usually at least one in each match thereafter. I feel like a FotM build could be emerging. Regens like crazy(at least from my perspective as an interrupt mesmer).

Hammer even after nerf is still extremely powerful. It just suffers from being a)a very fun build to play b) one of the most, if not thee most hated build to play against.