You are right, but is not only protection, when Hammer is traited with Writ of Persistence it can also heal, symbols can overlap each other and you can drop a large 4 sec symbol (hit 5 times) every 1.85 sec (2.8s base speed + quickness) traiggering Writ of Persistence about 2.7 times per second to 5 allies (and of course 5 foes) I'm not saying that is the best one, but at the same time is also not so bad as people continue to say. It might not be to your liking, but it's not like you're ever going to be forced to use it if you don't like it, unlike some professions that are sometimes forced to use an awkward weapon because that's all they've got for the job. With that many weapons available, it's okay, and I would even say beneficial, if one has a distinctive feature that makes it a little niche.
The broad point stands, though, that guardian has four melee weapons on core alone: two are DPS oriented, one is support-oriented, and hammer sits in between. It doesn't generally get used on firebrand, because firebrand usually gets enough protection from non-weapon sources (it does see use, though, just not in speedrun builds). All without requiring a rework of hammer's behaviour that would destroy its unique identity.įor guardian hammer, what it really wants to shine is a healing or heal-DPS hybrid build where getting protection from a weapon is an advantage. So you get a situation where the hammer, while normally falling behind axe and greatsword, makes Spellbreaker better, while Spellbreaker makes Defence better, which in turn makes hammer more attractive, creating three pillars that support one another to make hammer work for spellbreaker when it largely still doesn't for other warrior builds.
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Spellbreaker also helps to gain adrenaline from Merciless Hammer and stability (and therefore the damage boost) from Stalwart Strength since you get extra disable procs from Full Counter, dagger being a decent mainhand power weapon with a daze, and possibly even Magebane Tether procs. It gives you extra boon removal and, generally more important for instanced PvE, it builds Attacker's Insight stacks, making it easier to max out Attacker's Insight. The distinction is that Spellbreaker rewards you for bringing lots of CC skills to the table and then spamming them. Spellbreaker really does not have more +damage modifiers than DH or even WB. Hammer is seeing relevancy on Warrior because of its power coefficient buffs and the change to the increase damage now affecting defiant foes in November (Merciless Hammer in Defense, a core traitline, included). People typically run boon duration for boons such as quickness, might, and protection.The point you're trying to make is really grey.
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By running wrathful spirit over Fiery Wrath you basically give up 7% free damage bonus. It does not actually protect you from damage and with your current gear you are only at 70% crit chance (+10% vs burning = 80%) even with retal up so you still need Fury. I do have to ask why focus on retaliation though. Instead of running Rune of Sanctuary I'd probably run Fireworks or Pack Runes. For any power build I would run Sword of Justice or Bane Signet instead of "Save Yourselves!". It would also proc Inner Fire (which you run over the typical Right Hand Strength) much quicker due to the sword multi-hit attack, Zealot's Defense. Shattered Aegis cannot critically hit and the damage under your build is around 700ish only (below auto-attack damage on greatsword even without crits).Īs you don't have healing power I would run sword+shield instead of mace+shield because the sword has fury on its symbol as well as a gap closer.
Instead of Shattered Aegis I would run Symbolic Avenger. It does help with Radiant Power trait for the damage bonus though.
Burning actually doesn't do massive damage without condition damage, it's merely 131 damage per second without added stats.
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