Battle Hammer

Notes

• Requires 26 Strength and 8 Dexterity, and weighs 10. Standard strongly favors Strength over Dexterity; Heavy focuses the physical scaling on Strength. This is a Strike-damage great hammer.
• Upgrade with Smithing Stones to +25. Can use compatible Ashes of War. Grease or a weapon enchantment can be applied while using an affinity that allows weapon buffs.
• Braggart's Roar is its starting skill and costs 16 FP. For 60 seconds it raises the weapon's physical attack power by 10%, reduces incoming hit damage by 10% and adds 10 stamina recovery per second.
• The roar changes two-handed heavy and charged heavy attacks. It does not replace your one-handed heavy attacks, and the roar itself is not a damaging shout.
• Roar Medallion and Highland Axe improve the changed heavy attacks. Axe Talisman applies when you fully charge the heavy attack; Shard of Alexander does not turn the physical attack-power buff into a larger percentage.
• Its Heavy affinity uses a different upgrade-scaling pattern from ordinary Heavy weapons. Some independent projectile skills therefore get a smaller Strength-scaling contribution than on the usual Heavy setup; that is separate from the hammer's displayed melee attack power.
• It has no innate rot, bleed or other status effect. The Rotten version is a different weapon with its own guaranteed Snowfield pickup.
• Its critical rating is 100. Wearing Duelist clothing does not grant a hidden bonus to its damage.
• Farm the hammer-wielding Duelist outside Leyndell's colosseum. Its base weapon drop chance is 4% at 100 Discovery, separate from the 3% rolls for each armor piece.
• Complete the farm before defeating Maliketh. The capital changes afterward and removes these enemies; the Snowfield's guaranteed Rotten reward does not replace this normal weapon.
• The hammer has short reach for a great hammer. Its Strike damage and heavy attacks are useful against hard targets, but you still need to get close enough to connect.