Hammer Mastery

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Hammer Mastery is a warrior secondary attribute, meaning that any character with warrior as their primary or secondary profession can put points into this attribute.

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

[edit] Inherent effect

Each point in hammer mastery increases the damage you deal with hammer and the chance to score a critical hit while using a hammer. Hammer mastery will also increase the damage of certain skills, and is also required for some items and skills to take effect.

[edit] Notes

• Crushing Blow and Pulverizing Smash are the only skills able to apply Deep Wound in Hammer Mastery and require the target to be knocked down.
• Many Hammer Mastery elites like Devastating Hammer, Backbreaker and Earth Shaker provide a knockdown that does not also cause you to lose all adrenaline like non-elite options such as Hammer Bash.
• Weakness also features as a conditional in many Hammer Mastery skills, dealing extra damage like Fierce Blow or causing a knockdown like Heavy Blow. It can be applied using either Devastating Hammer, Forceful Blow or Staggering Blow.

[edit] Hammer Mastery skills

Icon	Name	Description						Campaign
	Auspicious Blow	Hammer Attack. If Auspicious Blow hits, you strike for +5...17...20 damage. If it hits a foe suffering from Weakness you gain 3...7...8 Energy.	8	0	0	0		Factions
	Backbreaker	Elite Hammer Attack. If Backbreaker hits, you strike for +1...16...20 damage and your target is knocked down for 4 seconds.	10	0	0	0		Prophecies
	Belly Smash	Hammer Attack. If this attack strikes a foe who is on the ground, the resulting dust cloud will blind adjacent foes for 3...9...10 seconds.	0	5	1	30		Prophecies
	Counter Blow	Hammer Attack. If this attack hits an attacking foe, that foe is knocked down.	4	0	0	0		Core
	Crude Swing	Hammer Attack. Attack all adjacent foes. Each foe you hit is struck for +1...16...20 damage. You have -40 armor while activating this Skill.	0	5	0	5		Prophecies
	Crushing Blow	Hammer Attack. If this attack hits, you strike for +1...16...20 damage. If you hit a knocked-down foe you inflict a Deep Wound, lowering your target's maximum Health by 20% for 5...17...20 seconds.	0	5	0	10		Prophecies
	Devastating Hammer	Elite Hammer Attack. If Devastating Hammer hits, your target is knocked down and suffers from Weakness for 5...17...20 seconds.	7	0	0	0		Core
	Earth Shaker	Elite Hammer Attack. Target foe and all adjacent foes are knocked down. (50% failure chance with Hammer Mastery 4 or less.)	8	0	0	0		Prophecies
	Enraged Smash	Elite Hammer Attack. If it hits, Enraged Smash deals +5...10...11 damage (maximum bonus 40) for each other fully charged adrenal skill you have.	2	0	0	0		Factions
	Fierce Blow	Hammer Attack. If Fierce Blow strikes a foe suffering from Weakness, you deal +10...34...40 damage. Otherwise, you deal +5...17...20 damage if it hits.	6	0	0	0		Factions
	Forceful Blow	Elite Hammer Attack. If Forceful Blow hits, you strike for +10...34...40 damage and your target is Weakened for 5...17...20 seconds. If it is blocked, you are knocked down.	5	0	0	0		Factions
	Hammer Bash	Hammer Attack. Lose all adrenaline. If Hammer Bash hits, your target is knocked down.	6	0	0	0		Core
	Heavy Blow	Hammer Attack. Lose all adrenaline. If this attack hits a foe suffering from Weakness, that foe is knocked down and you strike for +1...24...30 damage.	5	0	0	0		Core
	Irresistible Blow	Hammer Attack. If this attack hits, you strike for +5...17...20 damage. If Irresistible Blow is blocked, your target is knocked down and takes 5...17...20 damage.	0	5	0	6		Core
	Magehunter's Smash	Elite Hammer Attack. If this attack hits, target foe is knocked down. If your target is under the effects of an Enchantment, this attack cannot be blocked.	8	0	0	0		Nightfall
	Mighty Blow	Hammer Attack. If this attack hits, you strike for +10...34...40 damage.	7	0	0	0		Core
	Mokele Smash	Hammer Attack. If this attack hits, you strike for +5...17...20 damage and gain 2 strikes of adrenaline.	0	5	0	12		Nightfall
	Overbearing Smash	Hammer Attack. If this attack hits, you deal +5...17...20 damage. If target foe is suffering from Weakness, this attack cannot be blocked.	6	0	0	0		Nightfall
	Pulverizing Smash	Hammer Attack. If you hit a knocked-down foe, that foe suffers from Weakness and a Deep Wound for 5...17...20 seconds.	4	0	0	0		Eye of the North
	Renewing Smash	Hammer Attack. If it hits, Renewing Smash deals +5...17...20 damage and all of your Warrior Stances are recharged.	0	10	0	20		Factions
	Staggering Blow	Hammer Attack. If this hammer blow hits, your target will suffer from Weakness for 5...17...20 seconds.	6	0	0	0		Core
	Yeti Smash	Hammer Attack. If Yeti Smash hits, target foe is struck for +5...17...20 damage and all adjacent foes take 5...41...50 damage.	6	0	0	0		Factions