Best Skills for Hammer?

[Spags]

Some preliminary research tells me that I must have:

Weakness Exploit
Attack Bost

And then some good ones to have are:

Earplugs
Crit boost
Handicraft

And even though slugger is designed for hammer it's not that great.

Discuss.

[Suzaku]

Those aren't even "hammer skills", those are simply basic dps skills, and earplugs.

[Tarshaid]

Yeah that's just the commonly sought after "max dps" skills. Some other stuff that I like as a (barely competent) hammer user are affinity sliding and maximum might; both are also common DPS skills, whose requirements should fit right in a common hammerbro playstyle: a) don't tell me you don't love sliding with a hammer b) the stamina consumption of a hammerbro isn't very big, and by the time you get to the bigger attacks of your combos, you'll have regened it back to full.

No matter what people think, I also like slugger and stamina thief, at least for solo play where it's easier to knock down a monster, you can really chain the exhaust/KO with knockdowns and part breaks to just keep using your big bang until the monster collapses.

[Birdy.J]

Focus level 3

[Shevek]

The only hammer skill you want is slugger, but it is not mandatory. I use slugger 3 mostly for solo play. I don't recommend focus on the hammer to be honest.

Evasion skills are also pretty good with the hammer if you have space for them.

[Lemonidas of Sourta]

I'd like to mention Evade Extender with Evade Window. Hammer users have to get up close and personal to the most dangerous area near it's head for the weapon to shine and it's golf swing basic combo has you rooted to the spot a lot, giving you only limited time to get out of the way of a Black Diablos horn swing.

Saved my butt tons of times. Other skills I run with are Weakness exploit, critical eye and critical boost (Diablos Hammer, the extra affinity helps).

[Serrassi Effect]

i run earplug maxed out, brace 1, slugger 3 and the rest is either attack jewel or HP+ or miasma res, etc based on what im hunting.

[InstableMonster]

I don't like being CC'ed so I run 4-5 earplug, flinch free 3, health up 3, weakness exploit 3, fortify, and some lvl1 gems i move around depending on figths, if i fight a devil's hoe I tend to get tremor, diablos stun resist

Waiting on them drops of evade window/extender, still some trouble on rolling roars and other cc

[Blowfeld]

The good thing in this game is that for every playstyle there are options.
You might not run max dps all the time, but if you get interrupted and damaged, you would not get max dps out of glass cannon skills, anyway.

Depending on your skill level, defenisive options like evade window can result in overall better dps over the full fight.

[Katitoff]

K.O. jewels and for me personally, earplugs 5 and paralysis as I use girros hammer and want to keep hammering regardless of roars.

It doesn't matter if you don't do most possible damage, when half of the fight monster is trembling or on the ground.

Unless you want to speed run, just pick what works for you.

[Xerain]

Miximum Might is very good because you stamina will recharge during you combo, letting you get the affinity boost on teh hit that matters.

[Incidius]

So I'm running on diablos shatterer 2, with 3x weakness exploit, handicraft 4, protective polish, 2 maximum might 1 crit boost, and a few that increases affinity, I think with full stamina and hitting the head, my affinity is around 75%

[OmegaV-Rex]

i am doing mixed of the WE MM, NEB(Depends on your weapon), atk boost , evade extender, crit boost. because evade extender is helping any weapon that cannot guard. as for handicraft. depends on your weapon of choice. personally i prefer dejho's weapon/nerg rather than a sliver of white diablos had on pc. as for ps4 i prefer the lunastra xenojiva hammer/ kulve taroth sleep hammer. white natural sharpness

[Smug Kot]

Generic WE critical build with anti-stagger jewel if you play multiplayer.

[Inner★Universe]

I'm a fan of Affinity Sliding on maps that allow me to sonic spin my way to victory.

[GoldenKnight]

Favorite hammer skills imo are attack up 4+, earplugs 5, WE 3, and sliding affinity w/ nergigante hammer. I also have evade 2 and evasion window 2 for dodging thru hipchecks.