Hammer spellbreaker?

[Veprovina.4876]

I've seen a few posts on reddit that spellbreaker is now good in pve, and that's because of some hammer changes or something?

I don't main warrior, sorry, I'm not familiar with the skills or what even was changed.

 

But... I do have a warrior that i want to take out to meta events and such, just open world pve.

 

And I like the idea of using a hammer. 🙂

maybe dagger in swap slot idk.

idk. Anyone got a build i can try out?

Or do I just go to metabattle, did they update the builds for the latest patch?

 

I have a condi berserker and rifle axe pistol bladesworn but I don't like it very much. 

I'd like to try the spellbreaker. 

[Lan Deathrider.5910]

Its this build: Spellbreaker - Power Hammer DPS - MetaBattle Guild Wars 2 Builds

Things to note:

Fierce Blow, Unsupecting Foe (in Arms), And Merciless Hammer will all do their added effects (less for UF though) against foes with breakbars. So, MH and Fierce Blow will hit very, very hard. Dagger and Break Enchantments are no slouches either in PvE.

[Infusion.7149]

The hammer changes were mostly against enemies with defiance bars. Prior to this if a target had a defiance bar you would not get the bonuses against "controlled foes".

[Veprovina.4876]

44 minutes ago, Lan Deathrider.5910 said:

Its this build: Spellbreaker - Power Hammer DPS - MetaBattle Guild Wars 2 Builds

Things to note:

Fierce Blow, Unsupecting Foe (in Arms), And Merciless Hammer will all do their added effects (less for UF though) against foes with breakbars. So, MH and Fierce Blow will hit very, very hard. Dagger and Break Enchantments are no slouches either in PvE.

Nice! Thank you! Better dust off some of those WvW exotics then hehe.

 

34 minutes ago, Infusion.7149 said:

The hammer changes were mostly against enemies with defiance bars. Prior to this if a target had a defiance bar you would not get the bonuses against "controlled foes".

I see! So this should actually be perfect for running metas and such. 🙂

Maybe a Cantha strike or two. 😄 

[Lan Deathrider.5910]

1 hour ago, Veprovina.4876 said:

Nice! Thank you! Better dust off some of those WvW exotics then hehe.

 

I see! So this should actually be perfect for running metas and such. 🙂

Maybe a Cantha strike or two. 😄 

I've seen 40k Break Enchantment numbers in Cantha Metas FWIW.

[Veprovina.4876]

7 minutes ago, Lan Deathrider.5910 said:

I've seen 40k Break Enchantment numbers in Cantha Metas FWIW.

Nice! Well, i doubt i'll reach those numbers, but it's nice to know it can reach it.

Warrior in games, especially MMOs is such a bland "default" boring choice lol, but in GW2 it always managed to be pretty unique to me. It's nice to see it, especially Spellbreaker being played more outside of WvW, and actually doing good.

 

Now if they could only make Rifle good, that would be cool, i like the concept of more "modern" warrior as well. Would probably pair great with Bladesworn as that spec also has a "modern" hi tech weapon.

Edited December 14, 2022 by Veprovina.4876

[Lan Deathrider.5910]

16 minutes ago, Veprovina.4876 said:

Nice! Well, i doubt i'll reach those numbers, but it's nice to know it can reach it.

Warrior in games, especially MMOs is such a bland "default" boring choice lol, but in GW2 it always managed to be pretty unique to me. It's nice to see it, especially Spellbreaker being played more outside of WvW, and actually doing good.

 

Now if they could only make Rifle good, that would be cool, i like the concept of more "modern" warrior as well. Would probably pair great with Bladesworn as that spec also has a "modern" hi tech weapon.

That would require them to accept that warrior is allowed to do good ranged damage. I believe that Rifle is kept weak on purpose. If we had a Power|Expertise/Precision|Ferocity stat set, then Rifle would shine on it's own, but we don't so it doesn't.

[Veprovina.4876]

14 minutes ago, Lan Deathrider.5910 said:

That would require them to accept that warrior is allowed to do good ranged damage. I believe that Rifle is kept weak on purpose. If we had a Power|Expertise/Precision|Ferocity stat set, then Rifle would shine on it's own, but we don't so it doesn't.

Yeah, too bad about that. Maybe in the future more stat combos will come. I mean, probably with the expansion as usual, and then rifle will be good. 

 

I mean... they can make it good now (mechanist anyone?) but they don't so whatever... 

At least i'm happy i get to use a hammer. 😄

I know scrapper uses it, but there's something more primal about it on warrior ahhahaha. 

[Myror.7521]

@Veprovina.4876 fun fact. Switch the heal with mendings and the bubble with signet of rage and you will also have a somewhat decent open world pve build! xd

[Veprovina.4876]

1 hour ago, Pati.2438 said:

@Veprovina.4876 fun fact. Switch the heal with mendings and the bubble with signet of rage and you will also have a somewhat decent open world pve build! xd

Nice! 🙂  I'll check that out too! 🙂

[Nephalem.8921]

On 12/14/2022 at 11:31 PM, Veprovina.4876 said:

Nice! 🙂  I'll check that out too! 🙂

You can also swap berserkers power in strength for aggressive onslaught if you dont have a dedicated quickness supp. that provides perma quickness for yourself.

Edited December 15, 2022 by Nephalem.8921

[Veprovina.4876]

7 hours ago, Nephalem.8921 said:

You can also swap berserkers power in strength for aggressive onslaught if you dont have a dedicated quickness supp. that provides perma quickness.

Wow, i didn't know spellbreakers became this versatile! That's great!

[Lan Deathrider.5910]

1 hour ago, Veprovina.4876 said:

Wow, i didn't know spellbreakers became this versatile! That's great!

Warrior has become more versatile, and by extension the Especs. What Spellbreaker has received is more PvE damage buffs, namely on Dagger.

[Veprovina.4876]

1 hour ago, Lan Deathrider.5910 said:

Warrior has become more versatile, and by extension the Especs. What Spellbreaker has received is more PvE damage buffs, namely on Dagger.

I see! Neat! 🙂 Hopefully some other classes get the same treatment, and some "other" classes that are certain devs favorite that do too much the exact opposite. 😛 It started happening so, fingers crossed for more diverse build variety across the board. 

I mean, they fixed a Mirage bug, and they hate dealing with Mesmers - that's how i know they're doing their best! 🤣

[Nephalem.8921]

10 hours ago, Lan Deathrider.5910 said:

Warrior has become more versatile, and by extension the Especs. What Spellbreaker has received is more PvE damage buffs, namely on Dagger.

and they increased hammer dps by a lot. This is the first time since release that playing hammer warr is not trolling in pve.

Pure cc on swap set does not count. This time its actually used to bonk stuff for damage.

[Lan Deathrider.5910]

4 minutes ago, Nephalem.8921 said:

and they increased hammer dps by a lot. This is the first time since release that playing hammer warr is not trolling in pve.

Pure cc on swap set does not count. This time its actually used to bonk stuff for damage.

Yeah the changes to FB and UF help a lot.

 

And MH, of course.

Edited December 15, 2022 by Lan Deathrider.5910
Left out MH><