How's the Hammer?

[Jet Jaguar]

Mainly a Lance/GS/SA gu, but have been feeling the urge to induce agonal breathing with me mallet. Is the hammer worth investing into right now or should I hold off until the impending buff?

[Hoki]

try it. use it and if you like how it feels invest into it.

[StarExile]

Invest what lol?

[No' Name]

Hammer goes BONK!

[Jet Jaguar]

@StarExile the time it takes to learn the moveset

[Varagonax]

Originally posted by Jet Jaguar:

Mainly a Lance/GS/SA gu, but have been feeling the urge to induce agonal breathing with me mallet. Is the hammer worth investing into right now or should I hold off until the impending buff?

In general, hammer isnt that far behind other builds unless you are solo, or speedrunning.

Hammer does have some of the slowest times right now. But if you do your job during a coop hunt, you do make the hunt go faster. Its just not in a great spot right now.

[Chewy102]

Hammer, as with all weapons, is great. But the main downside hammer has in Wilds is hitting or making wounds from the lack of range.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Jet Jaguar:

How's the Hammer?
Mainly a Lance/GS/SA gu, but have been feeling the urge to induce agonal breathing with me mallet. Is the hammer worth investing into right now or should I hold off until the impending buff?

All weapons are worth it. But personally if you want to go for bonk, the Hunting Horn is currently the better hammer.

[StarExile]

Originally posted by Jet Jaguar:

@StarExile the time it takes to learn the moveset

Dam, its not Tekken or Soul Calibur depth, theres literraly 3 buttons

[Jethro]

I've been playing hammer in pretty much every MH game. Imho hammer isn't hitting it in terms of feeling.
The offset has a long set up compared to something like GS , SA or HBG. Knowing what combo ends you in the upswing for the counter takes planing ahead and luck (if playing in multiplayer). Can't really react to it on a whim like other weapons.

Dmg feels low and the one combo you can loop isn't much fun. But hey, devs said adjustments are coming.

I switched to GS and the game is a lot more fun.

[nicken chugger]

Originally posted by Jet Jaguar:

Is the hammer worth investing into right now or should I hold off until the impending buff?

Just craft the binder mace and go nuts.

[Honorable_D]

It is currently underpowered damage and is looking to be buffed for TU 1.5 at around the end of May.

[Elazul]

All the Hammer mains that can read have already responded to you it looks like

[Jethro]

All they had to do is give hammer 'Water Strike' from Rrise as the offset.

[Mercwar]

Hammer is currently the only weapon I use, my times are just fine and I do decent damage, but it's not all about damage :D

[imp]

it's perfectly serviceable, but feels lacking compared to other weapons. it doesn't have much in the way of defensive options, only the charged step and an offset that is tricky to get to when you need it. stuns are excellent but you have to work a bit harder to get as much (or in some cases less) damage than other weapons. when it hits just right it feels great, but most of my time with it was disappointing