Hammer Mastery

Hammer Mastery is a warrior secondary attribute.

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Hammer Mastery increases the damage you do with hammers and your chance to inflict a critical hit when using a hammer. Many skills, especially hammer attack skills become more effective with higher Hammer Mastery.

— In-game description

Inherent effect

Each point in hammer mastery increases the damage you deal with a hammer and the chance to score a critical hit while using a hammer.

For information on the damage dealt with increasing ranks, see Damage rating.

Notes

Knock downs

• The four Hammer Mastery elites like Devastating Hammer, Backbreaker, Earth Shaker and Magehunter's Smash provide a knock down that does not also cause you to lose all adrenaline like non-elite options such as Hammer Bash and Yeti Smash. The elite Enraged Smash also provides an easily achieved conditional knock down.
• Forceful Blow is the only Hammer Mastery elite that does not cause knock down. Counter Blow is the only non-elite adrenaline skill to cause conditional knock down without draining all adrenaline. Irresistible Blow is the only non-elite energy skill to cause conditional knock down without draining all adrenaline.

Skill synergy

• Knock down features as a conditional in many Hammer Mastery skills; providing the Blind conditions like Belly Smash, the Weakness conditions Pulverizing Smash, the Dazed conditions like Overbearing Smash, the Deep Wound conditions like Crushing Blow, and instant skill recharge like Renewing Smash.
• Weakness also features as a conditional in many Hammer Mastery skills; dealing extra damage, being unblockable like Auspicious Blow, providing conditional knock downs like Yeti Smash or causing a knock down like Heavy Blow. It can be applied using either Devastating Hammer, Forceful Blow, Pulverizing Smash or Staggering Blow.
• Crushing Blow, Fierce Blow and Pulverizing Smash are the only skills able to apply Deep Wound in Hammer Mastery and require the target to be knocked down or suffer from Weakness.
• Enraged Smash provides an unconditional method of generating adrenaline to fuel other non-elite Hammer Mastery skills; while Auspicious Blow and Mokele Smash are the only non-elite skills providing adrenaline and Energy gain.
• Along with melee attack skills, Dwarven Battle Stance also affects Hammer Mastery attack skills.

Hammer Mastery skills

Icon	Name	Description						Campaign
	Auspicious Blow	Hammer Attack. Deals +5...17...20 damage and you gain 3...7...8 Energy. Unblockable if target foe is Weakened.	5	0	0	0		Factions
	Backbreaker	Elite Hammer Attack. Deals +1...16...20 damage. Causes knockdown. Knockdown lasts 4 seconds with Strength 8 or higher.	9	0	0	0		Prophecies
	Belly Smash	Hammer Attack. Inflicts Blindness condition to adjacent foes (3...6...7 seconds) if target foe is knocked down.	0	5	1	10		Prophecies
	Counter Blow	Hammer Attack. Causes knock-down if target foe is attacking.	4	0	0	0		Core
	Crude Swing	Hammer Attack. Attack all adjacent foes for +1...16...20 damage.	0	5	0	5		Prophecies
	Crushing Blow	Hammer Attack. Deals +1...16...20 damage. Inflicts Deep Wound condition if target foe is knocked-down (5...17...20 seconds).	0	5	0	10		Prophecies
	Devastating Hammer	Elite Hammer Attack. Causes knock-down. Inflicts Weakness condition (5...17...20 seconds).	7	0	0	0		Core
	Earth Shaker	Elite Hammer Attack. Knocks down target and adjacent foes. 50% failure chance unless Hammer Mastery is 5 or more.	8	0	0	0		Prophecies
	Enraged Smash	Elite Hammer Attack. Gives you 1...3...4 strike[s] of adrenaline if you hit. Deals +10...34...40 damage and causes knockdown if target foe was moving.	0	5	0	5		Factions
	Enraged Smash (PvP)	Elite Hammer Attack. Gives you 1...3...4 strike[s] of adrenaline if you hit. Deals +10...34...40 damage and causes knockdown if target foe was moving.	0	5	0	10		Factions
	Fierce Blow	Hammer Attack. Deals +5...17...20 damage. Inflicts Deep Wound (1...7...8 second[s]) if target foe is Weakened.	6	0	0	0		Factions
	Forceful Blow	Elite Hammer Attack. Deals +10...26...30 damage. Remove target foe's stance. Inflicts Weakness condition (5...17...20 seconds). Unblockable.	5	0	0	0		Factions
	Hammer Bash	Hammer Attack. Causes knock-down. Lose all adrenaline.	6	0	0	0		Core
	Heavy Blow	Hammer Attack. Deals +1...24...30 damage and causes knock-down if target foe is Weakened. Lose all adrenaline.	5	0	0	0		Core
	Irresistible Blow	Hammer Attack. Deals +5...17...20 damage. Deals 5...17...20 damage and causes knock-down if blocked.	0	5	0	6		Core
	Magehunter's Smash	Elite Hammer Attack. Causes knock-down. Unblockable if target foe is enchanted.	8	0	0	0		Nightfall
	Mighty Blow	Hammer Attack. Deals +10...34...40 damage.	7	0	0	0		Core
	Mokele Smash	Hammer Attack. Deals +5...17...20 damage and you gain 2 strikes of adrenaline.	0	5	0	12		Nightfall
	Overbearing Smash	Hammer Attack. Deals +1...16...20 damage. If target foe is knocked down, they are Dazed (1...7...8 second[s]).	0	5	0	20		Nightfall
	Pulverizing Smash	Hammer Attack. Inflicts Weakness and Deep Wound conditions (5...17...20 seconds) if target foe is knocked-down.	4	0	0	0		Eye of the North
	Renewing Smash	Hammer Attack. Deals +10...34...40 damage. You gain 3 Energy and this attack recharges instantly if target foe was knocked down.	0	5	1	30		Factions
	Renewing Smash (PvP)	Hammer Attack. Deals +5...17...20 damage. You gain 3 energy and this attack recharges instantly if target foe was knocked down.	0	5	0	30		Factions
	Staggering Blow	Hammer Attack. Inflicts Weakness condition (5...17...20 seconds).	4	0	1	0		Core
	Yeti Smash	Hammer Attack. Attack all adjacent foes. Knocks down foes suffering from a condition. You lose all adrenaline. 50% failure chance unless Hammer Mastery is 5 or more.	6	0	0	0		Factions