Warrior - Core Mace/Hammer Stunlocker

The community gave this build a rating, making it second-tier: Good

Focused on: Control and Strike damage

Designed for: PvP Conquest

Difficulty:

Easy

This build was last updated on June 25, 2023 and is up to date for the October 8, 2024 patch.

Overview

A core Mace + Hammer Warrior build for PvP designed to keep enemies stunned while you and your teammates grind them down.

Skill Bar

Hammer

Mace/Shield

Utility

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Equipment

Hammer

Sigil

Sigil

Mace

Shield

Sigil

Sigil

Rune

Amulet

Usage

General

• The build is all about finishing people off in CC chains.

• Every CC skills grants Stability and Quickness thanks to Aggressive Onslaught and Stalwart Strength.

• The quickness not only rpovides an excellent damage boost but also make it easier to land slower CC skills such as Skull Crack or Backbreaker. Weaker but quick CC such as Pommel Bash can be a good setup for these.

• Try to space our your CC skills, don't overlap them. If there's still ~2 seconds left of your stun for example it's better to pummel them with autoattacks and time your next CC closer to when the stun's about to run out.

• Your CC skills grant extra adrenaline via Merciless Hammer and adrenaline itself feeds into some of your strongest CC skills.

• Try to use Skull Crack and Earthshaker at full adrenaline whenever possible, use your other CC to build up your adrenaline. Yet if you swap weapons and your adrenaline is full, it's best to use these skills first. With a little luck it should be possible to keep enemies stunned for 6 seconds using these and other weapon skills while building adrenaline back up to maximum, allowing you to stun them again with these burst skills before swapping weapons again.

• Fierce Blow is your hardest hitting skill so use it on CD as much as you can, just make sure to hit a CC'd target whenever possible for the extra damage.

• Cull the Weak, Merciless Hammer and Stalwart Strength provide addition damage modifiers vs CC'd targets.

CC chain example (weave in autoattacks whenever you have time for them):

1. Earthshaker at maximum adrenaline, preferably after a weapon swap to proc Sigil of Intelligence which is also going to benefit your next 2 hard hitting abilities.
2. Fierce Blow
3. Hammer Shock
4. Staggering Blow
5. Backbreaker
6. Fierce Blow
7. Weapon swap
8. Pommel Bash
9. Skull Crack
10. Auto attack spam while waiting out the CC
11. Shield Bash
12. Auto attack spam until Skull Crack becomes available
13. Skull Crack

Sustain

• Condition cleansing is mostly limited to weapon swap procs via Brawler's Recovery and using Mending.

• While "Shake It Off!" is a great source of cleansing and Endure Pain is an excellent panic button against direct damage, do keep in mind that these are your only stun breaks as well! Using them to survive pressure might leave you vulnerable to CC. That's not to say you can't use them to survive damage, just be extra careful with when and how you use them.

• Rampage is mostly an offensive elite, but it does offer damage reduction, pulsing Stability and several mobility skills for kiting, making it rather strong even as a defensive skill. The CC skills could even turn things around and let you start up a stun chain. Sometimes the best defense is a good offense.

• Bull's Charge is another one of those skills that could be used defensively as it provides mobility while evading attacks. Combined with Earthshaker you might be able to get away from enemies. In no time.