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The "Subduing Warrior" uses many knockdown hammer skills with condition spamming moves that leave your enemy, weakened, blinded and suffering from a deep wound, while gaining adrenaline quikcly.

Attributes and Skills

Warrior / Any	Attribute Rank
Hammer Mastery	11 + 1
Tactics	10 + 1
Strength	7 + 1

Flail

"For Great Justice!"

Devastating Hammer

Belly Smash

Counter Blow

Crushing Blow

Healing Signet

Generic resurrect

• Devestating Hammer can be replaced by Backbreaker, or Earth Shaker. Any of which could work well. Fierce Blow could replace Crushing Blow for a larger amount of damage. Flail can be replaced by "Watch Yourself", just for the extra armor boost (since you don't have a shield).

• If you are ABing, you can replace your Generic Ressurect and put in Purge Conditions (If you have chosen Monk for your second profession). There are many other skills that can work, like Epidemic (if you have chosen Mesmer for your second profession).

Equipment

• All armor works well. Make sure you have Stonefist Gauntlets though! The few seconds of a knockdown can help a lot!
• Hammers with 15^50, or 15(stance) work very well with this build. Sundering and Furious Hammer "prefix mods" can make all the difference. That extra adrenaline or armor penetration can get you that critical hit or just enough adrenaline to use your elite. For your hammers "suffix mod" you should have +30HP or Weakness +33% or Deep Wound +33%.

Usage

Pick out your target, preferably a melee character. Use "For Great Justice" and start attacking your foe. Once you have enough adrenaline use Flail and then the adrenaline should start pumping. Wait until you have enough to use Devestating Hammer. Use it, followed by Crushing Blow. Always keep Flail rolling. If your opponent is still attacking, use Counter Blow followed by Belly Smash, this will have your opponent Blinded. Heal yourself with Healing Signet when neccessary.

Counters

Most conditions. Empathy and skills of that sort. Watch out for Rust(my personally most hated skill in the entire game)if Rust is cast on you, run for your life. Or if you have no chance anyways, keep on fighting!

Variants

The biggest variant is listed below!

See also

The W/any Basic PvE Hammer was the main inspiration the Subduing Hammer. Check it out if your looking for a pure Core/Prophecies skilled hammer build.

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