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(Lack of) identify of hammer
Winchester Smythe Anus III.2153 replied to scerevisiae.1972's topic in Elementalist
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. -
Fixing hammer in WVW
Winchester Smythe Anus III.2153 replied to scerevisiae.1972's topic in Elementalist
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. -
Catalyst is garbage in WVW
Winchester Smythe Anus III.2153 replied to scerevisiae.1972's topic in Elementalist
Sad but true. -
How would you rate Catalyst?
Winchester Smythe Anus III.2153 replied to brandies.8673's topic in Elementalist
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. -
How to make catalyst viable in pvp
Winchester Smythe Anus III.2153 replied to Paradoxoglanis.1904's topic in Elementalist
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.
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How would you rate Catalyst?
Winchester Smythe Anus III.2153 replied to brandies.8673's topic in Elementalist
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. -
Get ready for the disappointment
Winchester Smythe Anus III.2153 replied to giblets.6401's topic in Elementalist
Well, you were certainly right, Hammer is a tremendous disappointment. I have zero interest in playing a melee Ele. -
Catalyst Hammer 3 cripples the specialisation
Winchester Smythe Anus III.2153 replied to Avatara.1042's topic in Elementalist
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. -
Catalyst is garbage in WVW
Winchester Smythe Anus III.2153 replied to scerevisiae.1972's topic in Elementalist
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. -
Get ready for the disappointment
Winchester Smythe Anus III.2153 replied to giblets.6401's topic in Elementalist
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? -
Hammer is still terrible
Winchester Smythe Anus III.2153 replied to Paradoxoglanis.1904's topic in Elementalist
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. -
Get ready for the disappointment
Winchester Smythe Anus III.2153 replied to giblets.6401's topic in Elementalist
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. -
Hammer is still terrible
Winchester Smythe Anus III.2153 replied to Paradoxoglanis.1904's topic in Elementalist
Yeah hammer is total dogshit in WVW. Sword was dogshit too but at least it was a good duelling weapon. If you want to play Ele in zerg, you're stuck playing staff/dagger same as it has been for the past 9 years. It's like Anet is begging me to switch games. -
We can argue the finer details of whether XYZ skill/weapon is melee/ranged/hybrid but I don't think it would change the overall picture. I kinda knew Ele was the more melee-oriented of the light armour classes but I didn't think it was as bad as this lol. In making hammer a dagger/sword-style melee weapon, Anet clearly want Ele to be a melee caster. Yeah like a lot of Ele players I am super disappointed with hammer but the simple fact is if you want to play a ranged caster class then mesmer or necro is the better choice. Harbinger and Virtuoso are both solid ranged caster specs.
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Ele has zero need of another melee weapon
Winchester Smythe Anus III.2153 replied to scerevisiae.1972's topic in Elementalist
Ele has more melee weapons (3) than ranged (2), and more melee weapons than necro (2) and mesmer (2) (the other "main" casters). -
Catalyst feels like trash
Winchester Smythe Anus III.2153 replied to Lynx.9058's topic in Elementalist
just watched this stream now and yeah USA got farmed and Grimjack fed hard on Catalyst... I also note he switched from hammer to D/D after losing 500-0... and still didn't achieve much. lol yeah sure Grimjack, Cata doesn't need improvements... lol And this is in a mostly dead game mode that doesn't punish slow/immobile/melee range builds like hammer Cata. Regardless, the real issue here is that Ele didn't need another melee range bruiser weapon because dagger and sword already fill that space and frankly do it better anyway. All of which means hammer is not just trash, it's redundant trash.- 114 replies
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Hammer Air #4, the "maybe blowback" skill
Winchester Smythe Anus III.2153 replied to scerevisiae.1972's topic in Elementalist
I think the problem is that it's unreliable. IT's not a bad skill but I wish it made you go forward not backward. -
Catalyst Feedback Thread
Winchester Smythe Anus III.2153 replied to Fire Attunement.9835's topic in Elementalist
Hated hammer so much I asked for a refund. I just can't see them changing it enough that it will be playable in WVW. Also because I have no interest in fishing, skiffs, generic gen3 legendaries... nothing for me to look forward to. -
Please, just remove the energy mechanic
Winchester Smythe Anus III.2153 replied to scerevisiae.1972's topic in Elementalist
Agree, the hammer is already very clunky and energy just makes it even more clunky.