From my understanding, Champions are the main class that can benefit from using hammers damage wise with a 75% dmg increase. Not sure on Knight's stance as well as Warden but I have noticed that pretty much all 1h hammer are tank related (To allow Knights to wield shields). Dex/Parry, Stam/Parry, Dodge skill etc etc is the base/ghost stats on most weapons without having to + them up.
ie.) I have a Huerton Quaker +16, gives 1200+ Patk, but only after plussing. 0 Patk at no plus.
I want to introduce a possible addition of a good hammer, say instance drop from bosses/not crafted, worth the t10s and +16 that can be focused towards DPS?
Champions are great for tanking, but either way Stam isn't as good as Str in the idea that 80% str becomes stam in their Shield Form, so a Hammer that gives Str will effectively help the DPS and the Tank side. Patk is good, but it seems to be included with the +ing on hammers up to Runic (Can't see anything above Runic on runesdatabase). But it's still a handful of stats that I feel DPS would choose second or third to other stats that better suit a dps.
As a champion DPS there isn't any deviation away from Hammers for me, the 75% bonus Physical Damage with my Huerton Quaker +16, t10, 117 OD at roughly 14k Physical Damage (not lvl 70 yet, just an assumption after testing changes with current weapons). Any other weapon (aside from 2h Hammers) would just lower that stat and I wouldn't output as much dps as possible.
All in all, I'm just requesting that 1h hammers be looked at as both DPS and Tank possibilities since there is a new class that has the capabilities to do both but currently is only benefited one side. I'm not saying lets change all hammers! Just introduce one or two every now in addition to the Knight Friendly 1h hammers.
Of course I can wait for a good hammer with ghost stats of Str/Patk with +ing increasing Pcrit Hit Rate
since I have a Nice hammer atm that I will use until I get an end game hammer (probably after addition of Chapter VI) but I can wait for now and hopefully with my new hammer I'll get to cash in on my chain collection to get new set skills
