Hammer of the Ancients

Hammer of the Ancients is a Barbarian skill from the Core skill tree. Its features are:

Hammer of the Ancients Fury Cost: 35 Lucky Hit Chance: 70% Slam your hammer down with the fury of the Ancients, dealing 90% damage to a concentrated area. Damage: Physical Damage Requires a Two-Handed Bludgeoning weapon Tags: Core, Bludgeoning Warpath After Overpowering, you deal 4% increased damage for 4 seconds. Damage: Physical Damage Prerequisite: Can also reach Warpath via Upheaval and Hammer of the Ancients.

Upgrades

Enhanced Hammer of the Ancients Gain x3% more Fury for 5 seconds for each enemy damaged by Hammer of the Ancients stacking up to 10 times.	Furious Hammer of the Ancients Hammer of the Ancients gains 2%[+] increased Critical Strike Chance for every 10 Fury you had when using it. Requires point in Enhanced Hammer of the Ancients.
	Violent Hammer of the Ancients After Overpowering with Hammer of the Ancients, you deal x30% more damage for 5 seconds. Requires point in Enhanced Hammer of the Ancients.

Other Skills that work with Hammer of the Ancients

The following skills either:

• Create a condition Hammer of the Ancients can exploit
• Exploit a condition Hammer of the Ancients creates

Basic Tree
Combat Bash After Critically Striking 4 times with Bash using a Two-Handed weapon, your next Core or Weapon Mastery Skill will Overpower. Passive
Core Tree
Pressure Point Lucky Hit: Your Core and Weapon Mastery skills have up to a 10% chance to make enemies Vulnerable for 2 seconds. Passive
Weapon Mastery Tree
Expose Vulnerability Dealing direct damage with a Mastery skill causes your next Barbarian_Skill_Tree#Core|Core Skill to make enemies Vulnerable for 1 second. Damage: Physical Damage Skill
Ultimate Tree
Heavy Handed While using Two-Handed weapons you deal 6%[x] increased Critical Strike Damage. Skill
Wallop Your Skills using Bludgeoning weapons deal 5%[x] increased damage if the enemy is Stunned (CC) or Vulnerable. Tags: Bludgeoning Passive
Brute Force Your Overpowers deal 8%[x] increased damage when using a Two-Handed weapon. Passive
Concussion Lucky Hit: Skills using Bludgeoning weapons have up to a 10% chance to Stun (CC) enemies for 2 seconds, or up to a 15% chance when using a Two-Handed Bludgeoning weapon. Tags: Bludgeoning Passive
Key Passive Tree
Unbridled Rage Core Skills deal 45%[x] increased damage, but cost 100%[x] more Fury. Damage: Physical Damage Passive
Walking Arsenal Casting a Skill with a Two-Handed Bludgeoning, Two-Handed Slashing, or Dual Wielded weapons grants x15% increased damage for 10 seconds. While all three damage bonuses are active, you gain an additional 25%[x] Crowd Control duration and Attack Speed. Tags: Dual Wield, Bludgeoning Passive

Items that work with Hammer of the Ancients

The following items either:

• Grant a bonus when using Hammer of the Ancients
• Create a condition Hammer of the Ancients can exploit
• Exploit a condition Hammer of the Ancients creates

Legendary Aspects

Aspect of Ancestral Force

Offensive

Hammer of the Ancients quakes outward for 5 - 25% [x] increased damage. This bonus is doubled against Bosses. Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)

Sunken Ruins (Map)

Scosglen

Barbarian

Unique Items

There are no unique items that affect Hammer of the Ancients

Changes to Hammer of the Ancients

There have been no changes to Hammer of the Ancients.