Which profession is the least useless with a hammer?

[Aodlop.1907]

And can actually be played somewhat competitively in both PvE and PvP?

[The Boz.2038]

Scrapper.

Herald, but only in WvW.

[Mungrul.9358]

In PvE, Warrior hammer "feels" the best.

 

All other professions that use hammer feel a bit "whiffy", to steal a fighting game term.

Warrior hammer feels like it connects. Hammer on all other professions has no weight behind it and on Scrapper in particular, is over-animated, locking you in to elaborate animations if you want to complete an attack.

 

However, in PvP & WvW, Warrior's hammer is a shadow of its former self thanks to ANet's heavy-handed CC damage nerf from a couple of years back.

[The Boz.2038]

2 minutes ago, Mungrul.9358 said:

Scrapper in particular, is over-animated, locking you in to elaborate animations if you want to complete an attack

Don't press 3 if you don't need the gap-close or a double leap finisher.

[Raizel.8175]

Scrapper is fun to play.

[Aodlop.1907]

Honestly I love how you can toss people around like ragdolls with the Guardian hammer. I wish it was, you know, viable.

[SlipLihte.1307]

I tend to agree with the people that said scrapper.

 

I have been trying Catalyst hammer the past few days. Great in PvE, feels very sensible and flows well, but struggling ro make it work in PvP.

 

Guardian felt a little slow and clunky to me when I tried it, but that was ages ago so I may need to try again. But hammer tends to be difficult to use in pvp because some hits are hard to land against decent players.

Edited May 6, 2022 by SlipLihte.1307
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[DanAlcedo.3281]

Herald. 

Scrapper is also up there. 

Guardian is "OK" 

Cata it to new for me to rank. 

Same goes for Untamed. 

Warrior. 🤣😂

 

[ardhikaizecson.3697]

Scrapper and Catalyst deal high damage with Hammer in PvE

[Lottie.5370]

Personal opinion? Untamed!

 

Correct opinion? Anything that isn't Guardian or Untamed.

[Yggranya.5201]

6 hours ago, Mungrul.9358 said:

Warrior hammer feels like it connects. Hammer on all other professions has no weight behind it and on Scrapper in particular, is over-animated, locking you in to elaborate animations if you want to complete an attack.

 

A warrior with a hammer says "look at me keeping these mooks CC'd and unable to fight back! Oh yeah, you can't do anything! Hahaha!" as they just ran out of CC skills and the enemies are still standing with about 30% health left.

 

A warrior with a greatsword (or any non-CC weapon really) says "yeah, that's awesome" as they've just finished killing like ten groups of enemies and are moving to the next group.

Edited May 6, 2022 by Yggranya.5201

[Blood Red Arachnid.2493]

On the PVE side the best options are Catalyst and Scrapper.  Catalyst does more damage and gives out more boons than Scrapper.  Scrapper has a wider toolbox to use, sporting stuff like stealth, projectile destruction, and superspeed.  For WvW/PvP Scrapper is the better choice.

[otto.5684]

PvE Catalyst and Scrapper. I dunno if untamed is good enough or not. Rev, warrior and guardian, do not even bother.

[Dadnir.5038]

Would we accept Reaper shroud scythe as a hammer?

Joke aside, I think Untamed and scrapper's hammers are somewhat competitive in small scale PvP, Revenant's hammer is competitive in large scale PvP and Catalyst's hammer seem competitive in PvE.

[ASP.8093]

On 5/6/2022 at 2:11 AM, Aodlop.1907 said:

And can actually be played somewhat competitively in both PvE and PvP?

Scrapper's not so hot in SPvP right now, but it's got a simple-yet-satisfying PvE build with perma-Quickness, and a fairly serious World vs. World roaming spec (using grenades and hammer).

[The Boz.2038]

On 5/7/2022 at 8:53 AM, Dadnir.5038 said:

Would we accept Reaper shroud scythe as a hammer?

The game certainly does! 😛

[Dadnir.5038]

52 minutes ago, The Boz.2038 said:

The game certainly does! 😛

Yeah but, does the OP valid it for this thread. Their thread, their rule.

I mean, if they ask in order to be able to play with whatever hammer skin he unlocked, the reaper might not be what they is looking for

Edited May 9, 2022 by Dadnir.5038

[Buran.3796]

   Overall Scrapper, due can be played at any game mode, being even meta at some.

   Rev hammer is atrocious at everything outside zerg vs zerg. The slowest weapon in game with the lowest damage output.

   Warrior's hammer is mostly cc, and damage got gutted at WvW and PvP, so almost useless outside PvE.

   Guardian's hammer is one of the least used weapons in the entire game, at any game mode.

   The new specs using hammer... So far nothing ground breaking. Nothing compared to the fun ANet stole from Warrior's hammer at the begining at the game. They did a "Bobby Kotik": stripped the fun out of it.

[Stx.4857]

Scrapper has been beaten with the nerf bat recently but I think its still the best hammer spec.  To be honest though I've never played revenant or guardian hammer.  I think catalyst might be at the top as well though, at least for open world its better than scrapper. 

[Puck.3697]

its gonna be catalyst.

Hammer Catalyst is a Strong PvE build (granted its not the Best Specc in the entire game. but its a strong one and hammers its the Meta setup for catalyst)

and Hammer catalyst is pretty decent in ranked gameplay. Meso and a few others have been using it quite a bit in ranked.

Edited May 11, 2022 by Daddy.8125

[Cuks.8241]

Rev hammer is meta for wvw zergs. 

Warrior hammer is used with support warrior in wvw zergs. Youre not there for dmg anyway so the gutted dmg is not an issue. But I dont know how the Woj nerf impacted the support spellbreaker in zergs, havent played much lately. 

Both are not good outside of that niche with hammers. 

Guardian hammer has some niche in spvp. For example it can work on the currently very oppressive willbender instead of GS. Most still use GS though. 

[Dahkeus.8243]

Man, I miss when warrior hammer performed like it did in the Hambow days.  I didn't actually play hammer then and it was a bit over-tuned for a lot of that time, but it felt very fair to fight against since it has such clear tells in the attacks.

[Arklite.4013]

The correct answer is Scrapper followed by Catalyst.

[Lazze.9870]

Scrapper, easily.

[iKeostuKen.2738]

Warrior if you have decent teammates.

Scrapper if you play alone.