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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.

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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.

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

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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.)

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Is the range chart still accurate after the 1.09 patch?

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wheres hammer which will look like baratheons hammer(((

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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.....

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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.

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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 .-.

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The Gigachad Weapon Class

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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.

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great hammers are really underestimated in this game.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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great bonkers

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

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Hope we get a dex Greathammer in the DLC

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

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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?

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Havel VS Great Club

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

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You don't have the right, o ,You don't have the right

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These hammers are pretty great!

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Protip:

You can't spell "Great Hammer" without "eat ham."

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bonk

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when is the OP hammers en great hammers video comming :)?

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Guys, which is the best great hammer for a STR/FTH build?

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I'm thinking we're back

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These are awesome to use as of patch 1.09

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Great hammer main here and also a small hammer main for pvp... the buff is ridiculous. Did they forget to tone down hit stun? Because I keep getting triple r1 combos... even good players can’t react to any mix up. Great hammers needed a damage buff so they stopped losing trades to katanas, thrust swords and specifically heavy thrust swords. And the latter needed a dmg nerf too. But a great hammer speed buff was totally unnecessary; it now plays exactly how small hammers are supposed to play. Great hammer is now good for all the wrong reasons.

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For PVP try using them 1h with a good off-hand, it feels great to play.

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y no unique movesets

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The 2 handed moveset lacks range to an extreme degree. A 2 handed large club R1 has the same range as a straight sword.

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where is the large club in the weapon ranges display?

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Spiked Mace where are you ... ?

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Why do Battle - and Rotten Battle Hammer even even have different ranges when both are literally the same weapon but one is stinky!?

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Idk man, the whole weapon class feels useless when double straight swords ALWAYS win the trade. Not to mention the two handed moveset won’t knock jump spammers out of the sky reliably. I think giving jumps partial i frames and recently buffing jump recoveries was the worst balancing decision ER could’ve made, after giving PS weapon move sets double damage of course. The problem isn’t that jumping is good or PS is good, the problem is that jumping and PS beat collosals and great hammers at trading, which is what they are supposed to win at.

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I think a good way to balance them would be to give strike damage bonus against armor. Hammers should be effective against armor, that is their whole point.
Maybe strike damage should ignore a certain percentage of defences. Like ignoring 15-20 percent of targets defences.
I cant comprehend why thrusting weapons get such generous bonus form counter hit which is 30% baseline and have a talisman which boosts it by another 15%, while hammers get literally nothing on top of clunky moveset.

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I'm a bit annoyed at how few of these are actual hammers.

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Note: Great hammers are perhaps the heaviest-hitting weapon type that can perform 2 dual wielding L1s against malenia as a true combo, for quite a lot of damage

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Wait...are you saying that Great Stars is SHORTER than Great Mace? :D

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I know there's way more meta options but these things are just so fun I keep coming back to them. The two handed moveset feels like just enough of everything,, decent speed,, hyperarmor, poise damage, actual damage, some of the chunkier ash of war options. Kind of short though., which is understandably a big no for some.

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As of patch 1.06 all great hammers swing faster two handed.
This is probably because they use an almost-the-same moveset as great-axe moveset, and it got buffed substantially.
Since the pickaxe uses the great-axe moveset while one-handed too, its faster both ways.

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Sad that greathammers don't have hyperarmor when 1-handed.

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big smash

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I really love that weapon class, both in pve and pvp. I thought It's gonna be tough for me in pvp because of short range, but man, the moveset and poise makes up for it, especially since 1.06 R2s are very, very good.

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the best of the "great" weapon class tbh
I just wish the r2 and crouch attack were a little better

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Better to power stance great hammers than wielding a colossal tbh. Equivalent weight and higher dmgoutput and much quicker. FROM really messed colossals

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Image up there about lenghts is wrong. There is no "Greatclub". I guess it means the Large Club as the other only option, the CURVED Great Club is already named as "Curved Club".

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The moveset for greathammers is surprisingly great (no pun intended). R2's are good, 1-handed R1's are very good, and the unique running attacks are also very solid.

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greathammers are the best of the "great weapon" category of armaments unlike greatswords and greataxes they give you enough poise during the hyperarmor frames that you poise will never be lower when swinging you only need 10 poise to be able to poise through 2 handed maces with greathammers and they can poise through any of the lighter attacks with 0 poise investment whereas the other two "greatweapon" classes need 42! poise to hyperarmor through a straight sword

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I love great hammer in this game man, they do over 40 poise on their 2 handed charged attack, you can stagger a lot of bosses that have 80 or 120 poise in 2 or 3 charged heavy, and the added hyperarmor is soo nice.

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Thats it im gettin’ me mallet!

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Seen some comments about these weapons being parriable when they werent in DS. keep in mind the 'great hammers' in DS were ultra great weapons which in elden ring have been categorised as colossal weapons. Colossal weapons being the weapons that cant be parried when two-handed. Elden ring's greathammers are essentially what the greatsword class is but for hammers. This is the exact same for great axes as well.

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Why must they all be so cartoony? I wish we had more accurate hammers, the closest is the Lucerne and it’s a halberd

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Table should say Beastclaw Greathammer has 75 holy damage too

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rotten battle hammer - poison infusion
great stars - ice infusion
the quad status lord
RBH = scarlet aids + poison
GS = bleed + ice

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it would be nice if the tables included the max scaling stats too.

like here it says brick hammer is B. But it scales all the way to S. A new player wouldn't know just by looking at this, or a player who has never used the weapon yet.

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For some reason these are parriable on any attack now. W H Y ?

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Too bad pickaxe don’t get the same rolling light attacks the other great hammers get. The slam down attack isn’t great. I love the turn around spin move on the others.
Same two handing them with the running heavy attack. I love the underhand swing it had for the rest but not the pickaxe. Too bad because the pickaxe looks amazing.

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Most of these are actually amazing off-hand weapons. They swing incredibly fast and hit fairly hard for a 1H L1.

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sadly Wooden mallet from DS3 isn't back -_-

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Am I trippin, or wasn't this weapon class called "warhammer" at release?

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Bloody pickaxe with wild swings is actually fun. Like somewhat swinging big ass weapons fast and somewhat horizontally. Need to see if it works on the Berserk greatsword. That would be nuts. But also, so many weapons I've yet to find.

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Why can you get the pumpkin head's flail, but not their hammer?