Winchester Smythe Anus III.2153

Agree 100% that Hammer should be a true mixed melee/ranged weapon and not the 90% melee weapon it is now. But this is Anet, who'll happily leave utility skills in the dumpster for 5+ years before making them relevant and useful while churning out BLTC skins every other week. They don't care.

WVW, the forgotten game mode. Even with the buffs you've suggested, I'm not sure hammer would be competitive as a DPS, but at least it wouldn't suck.

This. There is literally no reason to ever play hammer in WVW, it's garbage tier.

Sad but true.

Over 250 votes and more than 2/3rds voted hammer as bad or terrible. And that was before the recent nerfs. With this level of bad feedback, people should be getting fired. You don't belong in game design if 2/3rds of your customer base hate your work.

Just give it some ranged skills. Sword is just better than hammer at everything hammer wants to do cause the weapon design is so limited and melee-focused. Just a stupidly-designed weapon TBH.

Hammer so bad it made me stop playing GW2. Sword was bad too but at least it filled a niche. Hammer has no niche. It was so poorly designed that it's only useable in PVE and directly competes in PVE with sword. Just a really stupid, pointless weapon. No amount of buffs going to fix it. Needs serious rework to make it playable in WVW/PVP.

Even if they made those changes, it would still be just another melee weapon with very limited use outside of raids and faceroll open world content, where it either makes sword obsolete, or is made obsolete by sword because they are such similar weapons.

Well, you were certainly right, Hammer is a tremendous disappointment. I have zero interest in playing a melee Ele.

I read the Ele forums often and haven't seen a single post where anyone says this. Let alone "a majority of posts". Exaggeration much? I think most of the hammer hate stems from the fact it's a melee weapon that doesn't have a lot of mobility nor sustain, which makes it suck everywhere but beating up golems and static raid bosses that don't move.

Kinda doesn't matter cause hammer is unusable in WVW by design. As if you would design a PVE-only weapon when Sword already solidly fills this space.

Don't forget Staff and Scepter are the only ranged weapons Ele has had since release, 9years ago. Warhorn was mostly melee, Sword completely melee, and now Hammer nearly completely melee. Character creation screen says Ele "favours ranged".... WTF is going on?

Yep. Incredible. Sword already fills this space pretty well, though it needs its own minor tweaks. I think it's ridiculous that Anet would add another raid-only weapon when Staff and Scepter are the only ranged weapons that Ele has had for 9 straight years.

It's not even 600 range. Most of the skills (3/4?) are melee. It's not even a 600 range weapon, let alone how bad 600 range is in this game.

Disagree, the whole spec has nothing going for it. It's just core ele with a bonus field. Who cares. You're right that hammer is god-awful but I don't think a few tweaks will fix it. The entire design of it as yet another melee weapon is wrong.