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. — In-game description

Merciless Hammer

Specialization

Strength (trait list)

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Major

Training cost

8 Hero points

Game link

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API

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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 Increase: 20%

  Adrenaline: 10

  Recharge Reduced: 20%

  Interval: 3 seconds

— In-game description

Notes

• Skills which apply crowd-control effects in an area like Earthshaker, Rupturing Smash, Stomp, Staggering Blow and Full Counter grant 10 adrenaline per foe hit.
• There is no internal cooldown on any aspect of this trait. The 'interval' detail is a relic of when the skill applied confusion on interrupt, and is no longer relevant.
• This trait reduces the cooldowns of the following skills:

	Skill	Traited recharge
Hammer	Fierce Blow (WvW, PvP)	4	→	3.2
	Fierce Blow (PvE)	6	→	4.8
	Hammer Shock	10	→	8
	Staggering Blow (WvW, PvP)	15	→	12
	Staggering Blow (PvE)	18	→	14.4
	Backbreaker (WvW, PvP)	20	→	16
	Backbreaker (PvE)	25	→	20

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
December 11, 2018	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.
February 06, 2018	Confusion inflicted by this trait has been split and will now apply 6 stacks for 4 seconds in PvP and WvW only.
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.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: 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.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Updated this trait to reflect the introduction of the specialization mechanic. This trait has been moved to the Grandmaster tier.
April 15, 2014	Damage to stunned and knocked down foes has been decreased from 25% to 20%.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Merciless Hammer has been added to the game.