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November 29, 2022

  • Merciless Hammer: The bonus damage from this trait will now always affect defiant foes.
Merciless Hammer.png

Merciless Hammer

Specialization
Warrior icon small.png Defense
Tier
Master
Type
Major
Game link
Merciless Hammer

Hammer and mace skills deal increased damage when striking a disabled or defiant foe. Gain adrenaline when you disable a foe.
Disables include stun, taunt, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, fear, and launch.

Damage.png Damage Increase: 20%
Attribute bonus.png Adrenaline: 7

— In-game description

October 04, 2022

  • Merciless Hammer: This trait now also increases damage from mace skills when striking a disabled foe. Reduced adrenaline gain from 10 to 7. This trait no longer reduces the cooldown of hammer skills.
Merciless Hammer.png

Merciless Hammer

Specialization
Warrior icon small.png Defense
Tier
Master
Type
Major
Game link
Merciless Hammer

Hammer and mace skills deal increased damage when striking a disabled foe. Gain adrenaline when you disable a foe.
Disables include stun, taunt, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, fear, and launch.

Damage.png Damage Increase: 20%
Attribute bonus.png Adrenaline: 7

— In-game description

December 11, 2018

  • Merciless Hammer: The part of this trait that inflicts confusion has been removed. Hammer skills now inflict increased damage on any disabled target, not just those who are dazed, knocked down, launched, or stunned. This trait now grants adrenaline when the warrior disables a foe, regardless of the weapon the warrior wields.
Merciless Hammer.png

Merciless Hammer

Specialization
Warrior icon small.png Strength
Tier
Grandmaster
Type
Major
Game link
Merciless Hammer

Hammer skills gain reduced recharge and deal increased damage when striking a disabled foe. Gain adrenaline when you disable a foe.
Disables include stun, taunt, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, fear, and launch.

Damage.png Damage Increase: 20%
Attribute bonus.png Adrenaline: 10
Count Recharge.png Recharge Reduced: 20%
Interval.png Interval: 3 seconds

— In-game description

February 06, 2018

  • Merciless Hammer: Confusion inflicted by this trait has been split and will now apply 6 stacks for 4 seconds in PvP and WvW only.
Merciless Hammer.png

Merciless Hammer

Specialization
Warrior icon small.png Strength
Tier
Grandmaster
Type
Major
Game link
Merciless Hammer

Deal increased damage with a hammer when attacking a foe that is dazed, knocked down, launched, or stunned. Hammer skills gain reduced recharge. Inflict confusion when you interrupt enemy skills.
This trait can only confuse enemies with defiance bars once per interval.

Damage.png Damage Increase: 20%
Confusion.png4 Confusion (8s): 352 Damage, 198 Damage on Skill Use
Confusion.png6 Confusion (4s): 264 Damage, 297 Damage on Skill Use
Count Recharge.png Recharge Reduced: 20%
Interval.png Interval: 3 seconds

— In-game description

December 12, 2017

  • Skills, traits, and sigils that have bonus effects when interrupting foes will now activate when used against foes with defiance bars as though they had been interrupted, with a 3-second cooldown.
  • Merciless Hammer: Confusion application only.
Merciless Hammer.png

Merciless Hammer

Specialization
Warrior icon small.png Strength
Tier
Grandmaster
Type
Major
Game link
Merciless Hammer

Deal increased damage with a hammer when attacking a foe that is dazed, knocked down, launched, or stunned. Hammer skills gain reduced recharge. Inflict confusion when you interrupt enemy skills.
This trait can only confuse enemies with defiance bars once per interval.

Damage.png Damage Increase: 20%
Confusion.png4 Confusion (8s): 352 Damage, 198 Damage on Skill Use
Count Recharge.png Recharge Reduced: 20%
Interval.png Interval: 3 seconds

— In-game description

August 08, 2017

  • Merciless Hammer: This trait has moved to the Strength line and takes the slot previously taken by Axe Mastery. In addition to its previous functionality, this trait now also causes interrupts to inflict 4 stacks of confusion for 8 seconds.
Merciless Hammer.png

Merciless Hammer

Specialization
Warrior icon small.png Strength
Tier
Grandmaster
Type
Major
Game link
Merciless Hammer

Deal increased damage with a hammer when attacking a foe that is dazed, knocked down, launched, or stunned. Hammer skills gain reduced recharge. Inflict confusion when you interrupt enemy skills.

Damage.png Damage Increase: 20%
Confusion.png4 Confusion (8s): 352 Damage, 198 Damage on Skill Use
Count Recharge.png Recharge Reduced: 20%

— In-game description

June 23, 2015

Merciless Hammer.png

Merciless Hammer

Specialization
Warrior icon small.png Discipline
Tier
Grandmaster
Type
Major
Game link
Merciless Hammer

Hammer damage is increased when attacking a foe that is dazed, knocked down, launched, or stunned. Reduces recharge on hammer skills.

Damage.png Damage Increase: 20%
Count Recharge.png Recharge Reduced: 20%

— In-game description

April 15, 2014

  • Merciless Hammer: Damage to stunned and knocked down foes has been decreased from 25% to 20%.
Trait X.png

Merciless Hammer

Specialization
Warrior icon small.png Defense
Tier
Master
Type
Major
Merciless Hammer

Hammer damage is increased when a foe is disabled. Reduces recharge on hammer skills.

Damage.png Damage increase: 20%
Miscellaneous effect.png Recharge reduced: 20%

— In-game description

Original version

Trait X.png

Merciless Hammer

Specialization
Warrior icon small.png Defense
Tier
Master
Type
Major
Merciless Hammer

Hammer damage is increased when a foe is disabled. Reduces recharge on hammer skills.

Damage.png Damage increase: 25%
Miscellaneous effect.png Recharge reduced: 20%

— In-game description