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Power Amalgam

Guild Wars 2 Power Amalgam - Hammer / Hammer Meta build for wvw: complete guide with gear, runes, relics, traits, and rotation tips.

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Build Template

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Overview

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Pros
Cons
Attributes
  • High damage
  • Strong bursts
  • Lots of cleave
  • Sustained damage
  • High mastery curve
  • Relies on resource management
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Equipment

Traits & Skills

Traits

Skills

进攻协议:抹除 图标进攻协议:抹除 防护协议:荆棘 图标防护协议:荆棘 进攻协议:毁坏 图标进攻协议:毁坏

As 重金属 图标重金属 grants conditional Critical Chance, you can decide to go with more or less Precision on your gear: going with the lowest Critical Chance of 50% to achieve critical cap will make your bursts stronger when the trait is fully activated, at the cost of sustained Damage. Alternatively, if you decide to add Precision you will get constant Damage outputs but less burst potential, as you will rely less on the trait bonus.

水银偏好 图标水银偏好 and 双重螺旋 图标双重螺旋 could be considered to have a different playstyle with early Damage spike windows.

水银偏好 图标水银偏好 and 新型基因 图标新型基因 could be a good choice in setups with multiple Damage dealers to share Strains at the cost of personal Damage.

Rotation & Extras

Key Concepts

Power Amalgam is a melee Damage dealer using different kits and new Morph skills in order to generate Downs with strong spikes. This build is really close to Power Holosmith playstyle but with rarer and stronger sources of Damage.

Our main Cooldown 进化 图标进化 will allow us to reset all our powerful Morph skills while granting us a periodical boost to all statistics. We will be pairing it with one strong timing of our squad such as Well of Corruption Spike.

Every Morph skills will be granting an unique effect called Strain : we will mostly look at 进攻协议:抹除 图标进攻协议:抹除 and 防护协议:荆棘 图标防护协议:荆棘 as they respectively give us a Damage increase and additional hits.

Always start on your 超级嗜血法印 图标超级嗜血法印 weapon set. Once you reach 25 stacks, swap to your other weapon set.

Dealing Damage

Burst Rotation

Our main Cooldowns to keep track of are 凝固汽油 图标凝固汽油 and 雷霆一击 图标雷霆一击. Make sure to keep using them together as much as possible to overlap your ticking Damage together with the rest of your skills.

Your Burst Rotation, notably on Well of Corruption Spike call should be as follows:

  1. 雷霆一击 图标雷霆一击
  2. 凝固汽油 图标凝固汽油
  3. 原浆状态 图标原浆状态
  4. 流体状态 图标流体状态
  5. 进攻协议:抹除 图标进攻协议:抹除
  6. 强酸炸弹 图标强酸炸弹
  7. 进攻协议:毁坏 图标进攻协议:毁坏
  8. 防护协议:荆棘 图标防护协议:荆棘
  9. 进化 图标进化
  10. 进攻协议:抹除 图标进攻协议:抹除
  11. 进攻协议:毁坏 图标进攻协议:毁坏
  12. 电子回旋 图标电子回旋
  13. 强酸炸弹 图标强酸炸弹

You will want to cycle through the Weapon Rotation while waiting for these main Cooldowns to be back.

Weapon Rotation

Once you've done your Burst Rotation, you will need to wait for your main Cooldowns to come back up.

You now have to rotate efficiently between 试剂枪 图标试剂枪, 喷火器 图标喷火器 and Hammer. The following skills are your main source of burst and should be used off Cooldown:

烈焰喷射 图标烈焰喷射 should be covering the downtime between these skills throughout the rotation. Use the following:

The Auto Attack on 喷火器 图标喷火器 should always be your go-to when you can't commit to other skills or when no other Cooldown is available to cast.

Acid Bomb

You can cancel the recoil of 强酸炸弹 图标强酸炸弹 by using your Weapon Swap after its initial hit.

Rotation Notes

Always make sure to use your Morph skills before 进化 图标进化 in order to fully abuse its Cooldown reset ability from 共生协调 图标共生协调.

Try to synchronize as much as possible 凝固汽油 图标凝固汽油 and 雷霆一击 图标雷霆一击. Their use should ideally be followed by 进攻协议:抹除 图标进攻协议:抹除 and 强酸炸弹 图标强酸炸弹 to quickly finish players with a second burst.

Defense

自动除颤 图标自动除颤 is our main defensive Cooldown. It can be activated to prevent dying on upcoming risky moves or react to heavy enemy bursts. It can also be used to prevent downing from 生命幻象 图标生命幻象.

防护协议:荆棘 图标防护协议:荆棘 is our only Stun Break. Avoid using it too much as a pure source of Damage if you struggle surviving.

电击护盾 图标电击护盾 is a powerful Block on a relatively short Cooldown : remember you can use it if you start getting too exposed in melee while bursting, it might save you.

火箭冲锋 图标火箭冲锋 is a gap-closer with multiple Evade frames which could potentially help you repositioning in bad situations.

Crowd Control

SkillDefiance DamageSource
雷霆一击 图标雷霆一击1 SecondHammer
流体状态 图标流体状态360 RangeElite Skill

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