Guild Wars 2

Just would like to hear everyone’s thoughts on hammer’s place in the current meta.

I’m finding that the vast majority of guardians are running great sword mediation (excluding bunker) now that the dust has settled. Great sword is fun when everything comes together, and is an absolute bomb with shattered aegis, but against skilled opponents it is hard to stick to them, in addition to lacking utility.

Personally i have always enjoyed the play style of hammer, outside of the slow auto attack it just feels good. Its utility and team potential is high with a imob, ring, and punt. So with all of this great utility, why has hammer fallen out of the meta?

Part of it in my opinion is that the traits do not line up as well as they do for the great sword. After Virtues and valor, zeal fits in very well with the great sword burst setup. It feels like hammer does not have a third line that fits it properly, and i’m constantly switching between them in order to try to find one that works well. Loosing the ability to take glacial heart obviously hurts, but that can’t be enough to completely put hammer out of the meta right?

Was it buffs to the other classes in the meta that have put hammer on the bench? Or is it just that hammers damage is now just too low to contend with the other marauder specs?

Would like to hear some other opinions on hammer, and what third trait line people have been having success with.