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: 30 Lucky Hit Chance: 50% Slam your hammer down with the fury of the Ancients, dealing 98% 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 + 5% Critical Strike Damage and Critical Strike Chance for every 10 Fury you had when cast. It's Critical Strikes Knock Down enemies for 2 seconds. Requires point in Enhanced Hammer of the Ancients.
	Violent Hammer of the Ancients After Overpowering with Hammer of the Ancients, you deal x 40% 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 Core Skill to make enemies Vulnerable for 1 second. Skill
Ultimate Tree
Heavy Handed While using Two-Handed weapons you deal x 6% increased Critical Strike Damage. Skill
Wallop Your Skills using Bludgeoning weapons deal x 5% increased damage if the enemy is Stunned (CC) or Vulnerable. Passive
Brute Force Your Overpowers deal x 8% 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. 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 15 seconds. While all three damage bonuses are active, you gain an additional Unstoppable and 45%[+] 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 30 - 60% [x] increased damage. This bonus is doubled against Bosses. Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)

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Extraction

Barbarian

Unique Items

There are no unique items that affect Hammer of the Ancients

Changes to Hammer of the Ancients

Patch 1.5.0, August 6, 2024

• Damage Increased by 10%.
• Furious Hammer of the Ancients
  • Previous – Hammer of the Ancients gains 2% Critical Strike Chance for every 10 Fury you had when using it.
  • Now – Hammer of the Ancients gains 2% Critical Strike Chance for every 10 Fury you had when cast. Its Critical Strikes Knock Down enemies for 1.5 seconds.
• Violent Hammer of the Ancients - Damage bonus increased from 30%[x] to 40%[x].