Build:W/Mo KD Hammer Farmer

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The PvXwiki community finds this to be a good build. Through the PvX vetting system, it has reached an overall Rating in the range from 3.5 to <4.5 and thus qualifies for the medium category of working builds: Good. This build has been designed for the following use: PvE farming

This build takes advantage of the PvE only skill Whirlwind Attack, and Crude Swing to deal mass damage with a hammer while Earth Shaker keeps your enemies on the ground.

This build has only been tested on farming trolls. Although it seems to work against Hulking Stone Elementals in Hard Mode.

[edit] Attributes and Skills

Warrior / Monk 11 + 1 + 1 Hammer Mastery 10 + 1 Strength 10 Healing Prayers Enraging Charge Nightfall Warrior. Strength 11 Enraging Charge Stance For 12 seconds, you move 25% faster. Enraging Charge ends when you successfully strike a target, at which point you gain 3 strikes of adrenaline. 20 5 Crude Swing Prophecies Warrior. Hammer Mastery 13 Crude Swing Hammer Attack Attack all adjacent foes. Each foe you hit is struck for +17 damage. You have -40 armor while activating this Skill. This attack skill has 11% armor penetration. 5 5 Whirlwind Attack Nightfall Warrior. Sunspear rank Whirlwind Attack Melee Attack Attack target and adjacent foes. Each attack that hits deals +5..20 damage. This attack skill has 11% armor penetration. 1 6 Earth Shaker Prophecies Warrior. Hammer Mastery 13 Earth Shaker Elite Hammer Attack Target foe and all adjacent foes are knocked down. (50% failure chance with Hammer Mastery 4 or less.) This attack skill has 11% armor penetration. 8 "For Great Justice!" Core Warrior. Unlinked "For Great Justice!" Shout For 20 seconds, whenever you gain adrenaline, you gain 100% more. 45 5 Endure Pain Core Warrior. Strength 11 Endure Pain Skill For 15 seconds you have an additional 244 Health. 30 5 Vigorous Spirit Prophecies Monk. Healing Prayers 10 Vigorous Spirit Enchantment Spell For 30 seconds, each time target ally attacks or casts a Spell, that ally is healed for 15 Health. 4 ¼ 5 Balthazar's Spirit Prophecies Monk. Smiting Prayers Balthazar's Spirit Enchantment Spell While you maintain this Enchantment, target ally gains adrenaline and Energy after taking damage. (The amount of adrenaline gained increases depending on your rank in Smiting Prayers.) 2 10 -1 Template code

[edit] Equipment

• Armor
  • All Radiant Armor except one with a Stonefist mod for increase knockdown with the following runes:
    • Minor Hammer Mastery
    • Minor Strength
    • Superior Absorption
    • Vitae
    • Highest Vigor rune you can afford.
• Weapons
  • Zealous Hammer of Fortitude, or Zealous Hammer of Shelter

[edit] Usage

• When you enter a zone cast Balthazar's Spirit. Switch to a empty slot (or optional shielding) so you can regain energy at this point.
• Run to your target.
• While outside of the agro range cast Vigorous Spirit.
• Run into a group using Enraging Charge, For Great Justice, and Endure Pain. (They may get a swing in, don't panic)
• Your attacking order from here is as follows: Whirlwind Attack, Earth Shaker, Crude Swing, Earth Shaker (Repeat till the group is dead.)

[edit] Counters

• Enchantment removal
• Interruption of a skill (not likely)
• Attacking a non-knockdownable foe... (not that you would)
• If group consists of less than about 4 monsters it will be hard to maintain your health

[edit] Variants

• Endure Pain for Dolyak Signet (If you can keep them from not going behind you.)
• Has been suggested to replace For Great Justice with a IAS such as Flail
• Balthazar's Spirit for Live Vicariously
• Balthazar's Spirit for Spirit Rift
• Vigorous Spirit for Splinter Wepon.

• Belly Smash (for 10 sec blindness)

[edit] Notes

• Balthazar's Spirit is not meant to maintain energy, but build adrenaline upon entering a fight. You may wish to end it after you start your attack chain.
• Whirlwind Attack is based off of your Sunspear Rank meaning you must start the Nightfall Campaign on your farmer to use this build, also the higher the Sunspear Rank the better this build runs.

[edit] Video Guide

• High Quality (12 MB) Download - http://rapidshare.com/files/39365738/WMo_KD_Hammer_Farmer.wmv.html
• Low Quality Youtube Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alcju1kuzaI