Great Hammers | Elden Ring Wiki

I love how the weapon class is two words and then literally every weapon has it as one word

Submit

Bonkin' time boys.

Submit

The dragonclaw is cool enough, but it loses to the dragontooth because it has a kind of tryhard edgelord vibe to it, which is post-ironically complemented by the hideous armour set associated to it. The dragon tooth is just silly, which became awesome as it grew into its own thing. And now it has a soul.

Submit

From should have made a kanabo

Submit

Idk why the people who want to be OP are so obsessed with bleed/magic builds when you can just grab one of these, hold down the R2 button and listen to poise-break asmr for the rest of the game. I suppose they aren't edgy enough to appeal to that crowd.

Submit

In fantasy settings I feel like Hammers/Great Hammers would be the most logical weapon to use. Swords, Axes, Spears, Pollaxes, etc made sense as primary weapons in real life because you were fighting one thing: squishy humans. But when you're fighting humans, gods, heavily armored knights, demons, dragons and everything else imaginable, smashing would be the most effective, all-around method of dealing with them.

Plus, since FS likes to make every weapon smash into the ground when you swing it, might as well use the one weapon type where it makes sense, heh.

Submit

Is Brick Hammer or Battle Hammer better for dwarf cosplay?

Submit

with recent buffs to poise dmg of other weapon classes, great hammers have fallen off hard. This weapon class sucks in pvp now. In pve they are still awesome

Submit

It’s viable but I’m always left wondering what’s the point when someone hyper armors these consistently. Great sword r1 and even L2 of much smaller weapons can win trades against great mace. Great maces are roll catch machines but easily over powered by raw spam. Back hand blades consistently win trades against great hammers.

Submit

I refuse to use them because 1) they aren't ultras and 2) no Dragon Tooth so what's the point

Submit

"I love bleed" "Use it for my tank build" and I just like fat hammers and rusty old weapons

Submit

DS2 would be proud

Submit

best all rounder weapon class in the game imo. easy stance breaks, a lot of poise damage, good damage on it's own, strike type means you never really need to worry about resistances and even when you do there's the pickaxe for pierce damage. fast, simple and effective, with good ash options. a little bit of hyperarmour so you can trade. and since you only need to level strength for pretty much all of these, it's easy to build around on a fresh save and frees up a lot of stat points if you're a meta level pvp guy. if you're an L2 warrior you can just spam lion's claw, if you're jump attack enjoyer you can use dual pickaxes for insane counter hits, if you like charge attacks these do 40 stance on a charge, - and even if you just like spamming r1, this class will be solid. it's got it all.

Submit

Elden Ring is the most unga bunga Souls game since Dark Souls 1. Whenever I'm sick of putting in effort, I pull out my Cragblade Brick Hammer and tell the enemies to **** off.

Submit

There's no way the range difference between Great Mace and Great Stars is that much. Great Stars even looks longer in game.

Submit

I still miss when the battle hammer was accessible like 15 minutes into the game, made for an interesting early str build weapon

Submit

Rest in still no true intelligence hammers. It would be "Me go bonketh"

Submit

Great Hammers. Best poisebreak class in the game. Great Stars. Best weapon in the game. Does bleed. Heals with every strike. And you can get 2 a third of the way through the game. Takes some great ash of war; can build them however you want. Malenia, Ice and Bleed. Mohg, bleed and bleed. Dragon, lightning and bleed. Deathrite Bird, holy and holy.
Bell bearing Hunter, crush his bones with massive poise break.
Everyone dies.

Submit

When I see an annoying enemy, I just pull out one of these so I can just mash R1 and not have to deal with their moveset

Submit

They drop your R1 input after a few frames of a one-handed R1 pass. **** you frame data dev, this is far from the first time you've dropped or misinterpreted inputs. Dropped inputs are one of the gaming deadly sins.

Submit

Where's me mallet?!!

Submit

These things need more forward momentum on 2H swings, I swear the daggers have better range

Submit

After some testing in PvP, beast claw is the only hammer with a one handed L2 >> L1 true combo it seems. However, before you go out and spend all the extra effort getting it, just be mindful that your strength will be reduced and you will not have as much hyper armor with a one handed great hammer. It's not hard to knock you out of your attack at the start up. The Ash of War is also pretty meh in PvP, as it can be jumped over and dodge rolled with ease.

Submit

Almost never see these in PvP and I don't know why, they do good damage and the moveset is very nice

Submit

I really hope the DLC adds a nice long metal pole with a blunt end attached to it. This class is really lacking a simple warhammer. The game in general lacks a clean looking strike weapon for my Elden bling. Doesn’t look like the Lucerne is getting the strike damage it deserves so that’s what I’m holding out on.

Submit

Elden Ring: This is the wasteland of a once-great civilization. Up north is the human whose blasphemy is so vile he's a mind-controlling parasite on a literal snake. To the south is the man who butchered an entire ship so he could graft their arms to his body. Below is the cursed abomination who kidnapped a child for nonconsensual purposes. To the east is the rot-eaten husk of the Shattering's mightiest soldier, eating his former comrades.

Also Elden Ring: Here's your magic golden bubble stick. It will kill all of these for you.

Submit

the best stance-breaking class in the game. all the best ashes get over 40 stance and their charged heavy is exactly 40

Submit

The most sensible weapon class in the game, hear me out. With the sheer size of a lot of the enemies you're fighting in this game, it doesn't make sense to bring a small weapon. You need a weapon that can kill a god! But so many other large weapons in this game are bladed weapons that you're slamming blade-first into the ground, which is not a sensible way to wield a bladed weapon, plus you usually look like the weapon is too heavy for you. But then there's the Great Hammers. They're sized to kill gods, MEANT to be slammed around, and if you two-hand them then you wield them with a really good amount of speed and control. Quick powerful slams. It's a sensible amount of extreme violence wielded in a sensible way.

(Sorceries are also sensible. Greatshields are also sensible. Small weapons are sensible against small enemies, at least.)

Submit

Is the range chart still accurate after the 1.09 patch?

Submit

wheres hammer which will look like baratheons hammer(((

Submit

Is it only me that wants something like in/str great hammer with function like bloodborne Whirligig Saw, using gravity magic to spin the blades? I know we have Ghiza's Wheel, but it's a colossal. Plus the gravity magic isn't as flashed out while we have Radhan doing all cool stuff with it.....

Submit

If you're new to the game Great Hammers are good for destroying enemies stance this is my 1st Soulsborne game. I use Lion's Claw Ashe of War and Great Stars does 42 stance damage to make enemies kneel after 1 bonk, 2 for bosses like Margit or Morgott(80 stance) some need 3 like Mohg(110 stance) and the 5 for Radahn(200 stance). I research the game 1st before playing it. In order to have some ideas on how to approach fights after all fromsoft games are notorious for this kind of difficulty. The only irk that i have is that great hammers are lighter than colossal swords but do better stance damage despite their weight it would be better to have colossal swords has better stance damage vs great hammer because they already had their weight as a penalty. Not to mention i really want to roleplay as Guts with Greatsword and Lion's Claw that makes enemies kneel in one overhead spinning slash.

Submit

Short reaches in every weapon usually mean stronger damage. Well usually until you see battle hammer and wonder why it exists in the first place. It’s just so sad an IRON hammer specifically made for colosseum battles is weaker than a wooden bonk .-.

Submit

The Gigachad Weapon Class

Submit

Oh how I miss my trusty DS3 Great Mace... these all look like cartoonish bonks.
Why they used Vordt's as the base for this great mace instead of the original is beyond me. That thing at least looked usable.
With the heavy stuff they kinda go all "Guts sword" and make it over the top.

They should get some new talent on item design. Besides some very decent weapons and armor sets there's a majority of odd looking stuff.

Not saying remove the odd, just add more cool looking "realistic" stuff.

Submit

great hammers are really underestimated in this game.

Submit

Battle hammer is so comically bad. Same damage as the Great club. Less range. Heavier. Requires more strength. Has a dexterity requirement. Can't get it till you're about 70% of the way through the game.

Submit

Battle hammer is so comically bad. Same damage as the Great club. Less range. Heavier. Requires more strength. Has a dexterity requirement. Can't get it till you're about 70% of the way through the game.

Submit

Out of 14 Greathammers, only 3 are actually hammers, 2 of which are the same except infected with aids

Submit

A goofy looking stick is the best hammer. Good job fromsoft. I'll still use heavy mace cuz its the coolest

Submit

Be proud if you use a big bonk hammer. Some may call you Unga Bunga, some will call themselves Unga Bungas. Honorable warriors all of them.

Submit

Is it just me, or do these have like 70% the length they had in DS3? They look way shorter in comparison.

Submit

great bonkers

Submit

The very rare occurrence where I prefer the one handed moveset to the two handed.

Submit

Hope we get a dex Greathammer in the DLC

Submit

why are four of the seven strength S scaling weapons great hammers?

Submit

Is there any other hammer that have the R2 into R1 combo?

And if anyone knows, does the 2HR2 combo from a storm stomp and does the powerstanced L1 combo from storm stomp?

Submit

Havel VS Great Club

Submit

On the longer hammers like cranial or devourer, the two-handed running heavy is a surprisingly good roll catch in pvp.