Because of this, player movement and mobility is vital. Similar to other melee weapons, the warhammer relies on getting up-close and personal with its opponents, chaining together stuns and smashing them with heavy attacks. This Aftershock debuff will slow the target down, giving the warhammer player the opportunity to follow up with abilities like Clear Out and Shockwave, reapplying the slow and allowing the warhammer to easily stay on top of its enemies. Aftershock proves useful in these scenarios, allowing warhammer players to use Path of Destiny to stagger and apply Aftershock from range. The warhammer performs very well while going toe-to-toe against other melee weapon users, however, if the warhammer player is facing a ranged opponent, it can prove difficult to engage and lock those types of players down.

A classic warhammer combo would look something like this: Path of Destiny в†’ Shockwave в†’ Heavy Attack в†’ Clear Out в†’ Heavy Attack Passives like Hammer Time, Hardened Steel, and Contemption heavily (no pun intended) incentivize these weaved heavy attacks. Because we are slowing, stunning, staggering, and knocking down our opponents with all of the abilities in this build, weaving strong heavy attacks is vitally important to improving this weaponвЂ™s damage output. Being able to constantly apply a 20% slow to opponents while also punishing those players with the abilities base effects is amazing. In PvP, CC effects (slows, roots, stuns, knockdowns) are extremely valuable. This warhammer build is framed around the Crowd Crusher ultimate Aftershock, which makes all 3 of the Crowd Crusher abilities apply a 20% slow for 4 seconds.

Path of Destiny now staggers all targets in its path.

With the Seismic Waves passive and Aftershock ultimate passive, Path of Destiny becomes a pseudo gap-closing ability, able to hit targets at range, stagger and slow them down for a follow-up. Path of Destinyis one of the loudest abilities in the game in terms of audio volume, visual appeal, and strength.

The trauma of the attack causes Weaken, decreasing the damage dealt from the targetвЂ™s attacks by 10% for 10 seconds.

In order to be the most successful, warhammer players should use Shockwave as a player is engaging them in close quarters combat, or use the ability in combo with Clear Out for a fantastic CC combo. With a 4 meter area of effect (with Meteoric Crater passive), shockwave is an amazingly forgiving stun ability. Shockwave is the most notable and recognizable ability that the warhammer has to offer.

Using Clear Out on a target grants Haste, increasing movement speed by 30% for 3 seconds.

Clear OutвЂ™s cooldown is reduced by 5% per enemy hit with the ability.

Hitting a target with Clear Out grants Fortify, providing a 10% defense bonus for 4 seconds to all friendlies within 6 meters.

This ability is great to use as a counter to an opponentвЂ™s ability and following up Clear Out with an instant heavy attack is a great way to weave in some serious damage. Clear Out is a wide swinging and forgiving ability that allows you to push back, damage, and knock your opponents to the ground.

Warhammer weapon