The community gave this build a rating, making it second-tier: Good
Focused on: Strike damage, Control and Boon removal
Designed for: PvP Conquest
Expansions required: Heart of Thorns builds
Difficulty: Normal
This build was last updated on May 18, 2026 and is up to date for the June 2, 2026 patch.
A duelist Dagger/Hammer Spellbreaker PvP build that focuses on CC and boon removal with plenty of high damage finishers to take advantage of stunned and boonless enemies.
战士 (Warrior)
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Utility
Runes
Elite specialization basics
(FC) recharges your Burst skills and . Always try to use it when you can refresh their duration, except if you're under heavy pressure in which case you can use FC purely for defensive means.
Always try to make sure Full Counter goes off: briefly move into hostile AoE spells, tank Mesmer clones or Ranger pets, etc.
FC is both one of the best defensive and offensive skill in the build as it blocks, evades, grants , and performs an unblockable AoE CC attack when triggered.
Both burst skills and Full Counter cost adrenaline. If you only need a little more until you can use them then can get you there.
General
Settings: disable auto targeting, otherwise it'd be impossible to use skills like for disengaging.
reduces the CD of weapon swapping to 5 seconds, which keeps gameplay rather fast paced with minimal downtime. As a result you won't be auto attacking much unless you're cleaving a downed enemy.
Despite its range is best used in melee to make it harder to react to.
CCing a target removes a boon and deals damage/grants adrenaline via .
grants you half a bar of adrenaline on weapon swap. This might not seem like a lot, but it's quite useful especially in situations where you're under pressure and don't have the adrenaline to activate . Instead of scrambling to build some a adrenaline a simple weapon swap could get you there.
Movement skills remove from you. List of movement skills in the build:
Damage
Both sets are capable of doing a lot of damage, especially with the proper setup.
When it comes to bursts Hammer is all about landing on CC'd foes for extra damage.
is the only true ranged skill on this set (not counting Earthshaker which is a melee leap). The Cripple makes it easier to catch up to fleeing targets so it has some value other than just doing great damage.
(BS) deals significantly more damage against boonless targets, Hammer and its synergy plays an important part in setting up this skill.
While itself removes boons, the bonus damage is calculated before the boon removal, which means if the target has any boons when this skill lands you're not getting the damage increase, even if Breaching Strike removes all of their remaining boons.
Going BS ⇒ ⇒ second BS increases the chance of getting the bonus damage on the second Breaching Strike and also makes good use of .
The two best skills for the proc are and .
procs an whenever you stun or daze a target. This is more relevant on the daze, as dazed targets could still move freely if it wasn't for this trait.
Landing any Burst skill can chain enemies to you via . While active the tether passively stacks for you, increasing your damage while also preventing enemies from entering . If either of you goes past a certain range the tether breaks but the target gets pulled to you, which makes it a rather powerful CC tool as well.
Quickness Combos
Hammer(Hammer)
Hammer Burst Combo:
Starter
auto for ~3 seconds
or or
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Double Combo:
// Starter
auto for ~3 seconds
or or
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Conditon cleansing & general survival
provides a steady stream of cleansing in combat to help manage condition levels before having to blow CDs.
cleanses 5 conditions and should be used pretty much on CD, assuming you're missing a large chunk of health or need to deal with conditions.
(SIO) is both a stun break and a source of condition removal for you and your team.
is great if you want to run away from pressure as it can build quite the gap while providing an evade frame.
Even could be used defensively as a ground targeted escape tool. A mobility skill is never a bad thing to have for kiting, and with this you could even jump over gaps in the terrain, forcing some specs to go around or blow CDs.
Rampage
is what you use when you quickly want to burst/CC a target, or desperately need mobility to either chase down someone, or run away from a fight.
CC skills barely do any damage anymore, most of the damage in this form comes from autoattacks and .
is a popular opener, allowing you to CC targets from range and then either follow up with for burst damage or to keep the CC chain rolling.
