Guild Wars 2

I use the Hammer exclusively now as my main 2H and I use Swrd/Focus or Scptr/Focus as my swap.

Skill 4 (Banish) is almost undodgeable if you know how to use it. Just target the person you want to slam … start the animation by selecting 4 then select JI and you will blink to the target while animation finishes at target immediately hitting with no chance for dodge. Now if they have stability on them obviously the knockdown wont work … but more often then not if you catch a target not prepared for this attack at some ranged distance they wont be prepared for the sudden slam to the face from Banish.

You then immediately select 3 to root them and apply vulnerability (should be 6 stacks if you traited right) close with Hammer 2 then Hammer 5 to trap them ..the rest depends on actions of other player … I find I often at this point have to switch to the sword then go Sword 3 (possibly immediately followed by sword 2 to close gap and because there’s a slight delay before attack lands and selecting 2 quickly afterwards will (much like combining JI w/Banish) land the hit immediately after blinking to target.

I use Celestial Wup Wup for PvE content as it allows for more support stats and a Zerker Hammer for killing fast in WvW and PvP.

The Hammer is the best weapon for both damage and cc and just versatility period.

So a fellow Hammer aficionado!

I know this Guide is older and we’ve had updates to the Guardian since but it was a great read and many of the experiences you describe have been my own.

I learned a few things I was not aware of …like selecting B just before using JI so that it triggers on arrival and almost impossible to dodge.

I am curious about ascended celestial gear as I saw great potential for the Guardian in it early on. I almost have a full set of ascended celestial armor with runes of strength allowing me to maintain stacks of might.

reading through some of your suggestions I think I need to change my trinkets up as they are all ascended celestial as well … and suggestions once I have full celestial set up? I plan to continue to use strength runes as they were an expensive investment and I want to complement the DPS.

Weapon wise I use the Wup Wup Celestial Hammer (of course) w/Hydromancy and Battle(for might stacks) and Assassin’s Staff (for the crits) W/ Accuracy and Battle. This is my general WvW set up for groups med to large using a AH type build.

When solo roaming or playing small group WvW or PvP I swap to sword/torch or scepter/focus depending on situations and tactics of other players. I prefer to use assassins for the precision as crits are critical for support and synergy with the build as well as polishing off opponents faster.

Can you offer, under the current changes, some advice on properly utilizing, to its potential, my full celestial armor suite using strength runes?