Well you are correct in saying that hammer does do significantly more than 0 dps. However, even with a proper hammer build, it isn’t near close enough to the builds using hammer or axe to be considered and the CC options aren’t exactly redeeming factors for pve play. As mentioned before, defiance takes away most of the hammer’s good CC capabilities for bosses. Does that mean hammer is really good against trash?
Not really. Why? Because instead of trying to CC a stack of trash to death, you can just let a thief throw down perma blinds while you release superior-to-hammer dps.
Obviously in the end it comes down to play how you want because nobody can stop you, but hopefully you will understand at this point that for pve there are better options and you will come across people as you PUG that are going to give you kitten for running hammer. Your group won’t fail just because you are running hammer. Maybe they will kick you. Maybe they won’t. In the end, hammer isn’t optimized for pve use.
That is one of the standard shout warrior builds. Can play with it if you want. If you are new, you can trade out the zerk trinkets for tankier stuff. Some guilds have started running hoelbrak instead of melandru too.
Before anybody continues saying hammer has dps comparable to gs, you need to perform calculations to support these insane claims. Math for all of the meta builds using GS has already been done so you can compare. Half the work is already done.
Spoiler: If you do this properly, your own math will prove you wrong.
P.S. Even with out a wall, if you start your whirlwind at max melee range you will still hit the mob more than once, even if it has a small hit box. It isn’t even hard to pull off.
You also looked at the wrong number. 72,323 is if your team had 25 might. However, your team has 0 might. You need to look at the number under the big one, where it says
“roughly extimated 54,242 DPS” which is based on the might your group actually has.
I would strongly suggest trying out sword offhand instead of shield. It is such a good condi damage tool. It has a block with a shorter cooldown than shield block (and yes, it blocks more than one attack as long as you aren’t too close to the enemy) as well as having the brutal 4 skills which is a ranged attack that applies 5 stacks of torment which can damage a moving target for over 14k. It is seriously 2gud.
But your comp doesn’t have a thief…I can’t accept this
Engis will be the downfall of thieves.
All my thief comps fall to around 67k dps, which is only about 3% different, so if you were in a situation where you did need thief’s utilities then it wouldn’t really be a loss. (Like if engy’s stealth isn’t enough or you want the permablind).
Edit: It was actually easy to find several comps with thieves and get around 68.4k dps such as: (http://tinyurl.com/oe29xyo) meaning only about a 1-2% difference
ANet should do something about skipping in dungeons, players should be forced to kill everything in the way before advancing to the next section. Also soloing dungeons should be bannable, i hate when i look at the lfg and see people selling arah, it bothers me the way they play, and i cant get a group for arah because when i join these groups they kick me because i refuse to pay then. I shouldn’t have to pay to play the content right???
You don’t have to pay. You can either make your own LFG or join an LFG that isn’t selling the path. If you join an LFG that is clearly selling the path, you should absolutely be kicked from the party for refusing to pay.
Edit: Also lol @ being mad you can’t solo it yourself so you QQ that other people can.
You missed the point by a long shot.
It seems there were three points addressed. One about skipping, one about soloing, and one about being kicked from parties requesting payment. I acknowledged 2 and ignored the third, because I have no comments regarding forcing players to kill everything.
ANet should do something about skipping in dungeons, players should be forced to kill everything in the way before advancing to the next section. Also soloing dungeons should be bannable, i hate when i look at the lfg and see people selling arah, it bothers me the way they play, and i cant get a group for arah because when i join these groups they kick me because i refuse to pay then. I shouldn’t have to pay to play the content right???
You don’t have to pay. You can either make your own LFG or join an LFG that isn’t selling the path. If you join an LFG that is clearly selling the path, you should absolutely be kicked from the party for refusing to pay.
Edit: Also lol @ being mad you can’t solo it yourself so you QQ that other people can.
Double Edit: Sarcasm pointed out…All statements can be ignored forever
@ mounts capes and other horse corpse beating comments: Yes! This is the thread for that!
@Colesy: my issue is also that my Asura size screws with the camera. I go all zoomy and see her weird eyes any time I want to stack in a corner and face away from the wall. This happens everywhere for me. But yeah that spot in aetherblade might be the biggest offender.
Don’t you love when your camera is placed INSIDE your character model’s face, so you see their eyes from within their own head?
After learning the information found there, I swapped to DotE and will never look back. I noticed a very large boost to my damage.
Edit: Math wise, if AA is a 6% increase, then DotE is better as long as they have 2 boons or more (1.03*1.03=6.09%) and the difference in damage increases the more boons they have.
