Untamed - Hammer Duelist Untamed

The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great

Focused on: Strike damage, Control and Sustain

Designed for: PvP Conquest

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Normal

This build was last updated on October 05, 2026 and is up to date for the September 15, 2026 patch.

Overview

A Power duelist Hammer Untamed build for PvP that focuses on CC and survivability.

Skill Bar

Hammer

Sword/Warhorn

Utility

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Specializations

Variants

• Take Enhancing Impact if you can handle conditions without Cleansing Unleash.

Equipment

Hammer

Sigil

Sigil

Sword

Warhorn

Sigil

Sigil

Rune

Amulet

Relic

Equipment Variants

Amulet

• - more survivability.

Runes

• Rune of Fighter - mix of defense and offense.

• Rune of Dolyak - more tanky option.

• Rune of Lynx - mobility option.

Usage

Elite specialization basics

• Untamed Rangers have more control over their pets than regular Rangers, allowing them to manually control their pet's 3 special attacks.

• Unleash is the central mechanic of Untamed. At any given time either you or your pet is in the Unleashed state, and you get to flip back and forth on a 1s CD.

• When you're unleashed, your first autoattack is empowered. Hammer's turns into Relentless Whirl while Sword's becomes Deft Strike. Unleashing yourself makes you deal more damage.

• Unleashing the pet grants you damage reduction while their pet skills flip over to new ones:
  • F1 becomes Venomous Outburst
  • F2 becomes Rending Vines
  • F3 becomes Enveloping Haze
  • Note: these unleashed pet skills share CD between pets, so pet swapping won't reset them.

General

• Hammer has 2 sets of skills - the left side of your bar changes based on whether you or you pet is the one currently being unleashed.
  • Unleash Pet is the "default" state of the weapon. While your pet is unleashed Hammer skills are quite versatile. They deal decent damage, help with survivability (mainly through barrier stacking) and have some good CC skills.
  • Unleash Ranger focuses on damage and capitalizing on CC, as several skills deal bonus damage against disabled enemies.

• If you're new to the build it's completely fine to just stick with using Hammer skills while your pet is unleashed. The non-unleashed Hammer skills are powerful and far more loaded with effects while still dealing good damage. You'll lose a bit of burst but nothing major.

Doing damage

• Unleashed autoattacks are recharged whenever you swap weapons thanks to Let Loose. Most people use these right after weapon swapping, after which they go on a 15s CD.
  • Note: if you spend 15+ seconds on a set for some reason, don't expect the auto to automatically flip over. You must re-enter the unleashed state by unleashing your pet and then yourself in order to gain access to the unleashed ambush attack.

• Do your unleashed autoattack at least once per weapon swap.

• For maximum damage on Hammer you need to make use of both unleashed states, as these play off of each other:
  • Skills #3 Overbearing Smash and #5 Thump on Hammer CC targets while your pet's unleashed.
  • Skills #2 Unleashed Wild Swing and #4 Unleashed Savage Shock Wave deal increased damage to CC'd targets while YOU are unleashed.
  • With unleashing only having a 1s CD you can keep swapping back and forth between the two unleashed states based on what you want to combo.

• Even if you choose the simplified way of playing the build and stick to using Hammer skills while camping Unleash Pet, you should at least use Unleash Ranger once after swapping to Hammer so you can use Relentless Whirl which is a high damage AoE skill.

• While we recommend using Hammer #3 Overbearing Smash in its default state, Unleashed Overbearing Smash has a role to play too against targets with Stability. You couldn't get the CC from regular Overbearing Smash anyway, and the unleashed version actually removes boons which could open them up for Thump.

Hammer combo example (keep your pet unleashed for a simplified rotation, skip the optional steps)

1. Thump to set up burst through CC.
2. Optional - Unleash Ranger to make Wild Swing stronger against the knocked down target.
3. Wild Swing
4. Optional - Unleash Pet if you used Unleash Ranger earlier
5. Savage Shock Wave for the Immob.
6. Overbearing Smash. Optional - Unleash Ranger once again before the second part of the skill goes off for a 10% damage boost.

Stealth stacking

• Smokescale's F2 Smoke Cloud is a combo field used for Stealth stacking:
  • While your pet is Unleashed, Smoke Cloud is replaced by Rending Vines which is a Blast finisher. Dropping the field, unleashing the pet and pressing the same button again could make your pet combo Stealth for you on his own. This works even while you're stunned.
  • Both weapon sets have combo tools for this field: Thump on Hammer, skills 2-3 on Sword and 5 on Warhorn.

• Stealth fields are always valuable on any team! Consider dropping this for allies before arriving to a fight so they can make use of the field too.

Sustain

• Both sets have some defensive skills, especially the Sword/Warhorn set which has an evade frame on Serpent's Strike and a CC/Weakness application on Call of the Wild.

• Dodge rolling applies Protection, which also heals thanks to the trait Rugged Growth.

• Survival skills cure 2 conditions and grant Fury. Troll Unguent can cleanse 4 as it triggers another Survival skill from Child of Earth, and Lightning Reflexes could remove up to 3 if you had Immobilize.

• Cleansing Unleash removes 2 conditions when you use your unleash ability. THis can only be done once every 9 seconds, but the trait's icon is visible above the right side of your skill bar when this proc is available.

• Forest's Fortification is one of your best survival tools but also one that has good synergy with your more offensive skills. Try to use multi-hit attacks like Hunter's Call while this is active to reduce the CD of your elite.

• "Protect Me!" is both a stunbreak and an excellent skill for damage mitigation. If other stunbreaks are available feel tree to use this defensively for mitigation.

• Every unleashed pet skill can be used defensively, and Unleash Pet itself grants you damage reduction.

• Venomous Outburst is an instant source of ranged Blind via trait synergy that could also be used if you're CC'd or casting skills.

• Rending Vines applies Slow but only if the target is CC'd. It's still useful for preventing them from counterpressuring you after the CC.

• Enveloping Haze destroys projectiles while the Chill makes it easy for you to kite enemies caught in it.

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