Seeing 1 damage ticks for the hammer orbs is silly

[The Great Al.2546]

Either give this damage or not, why does it do 1 damage?

 

Harbinger shroud basically melts everything without having to press a button, why can’t Ele have any passive damage? Just make the damage pulsing instead of circular to avoid the hit box issues. 

[AzuritaBlues.3206]

It all comes down to their design choices regards energy/energy generation. The orbs are hammer's best tool to generate energy, therefore they can't simply remove the damage without messing around with the energy mechanics.

Also, the orbs still apply condis, so they need to hit. Condi Hammer is actually better after the duration changes, now you can easily perma upkeep  the fire and earth orbs 

[ScottBroChill.3254]

can they still crit for crit traits? if so then 1 damage is better than nothing just for some extra hits, except for augments and glyph of elemental power in which it will waste hits

[Blood Red Arachnid.2493]

Don't forget that the orbs an muscle through blindness and aegis.  

[Markus.6415]

2 hours ago, Blood Red Arachnid.2493 said:

Don't forget that the orbs an muscle through blindness and aegis.  

Thats so true, they get deleted quite regularly. I'd be in for a rework of hammer 3 to make it a pulsing elemental aoe around you, instead of rotating orbs.

[The Boz.2038]

11 hours ago, talesbfftt.4596 said:

It all comes down to their design choices regards energy/energy generation. The orbs are hammer's best tool to generate energy, therefore they can't simply remove the damage without messing around with the energy mechanics.

They being real stubborn about keeping the energy afterthought in the game.