Changes: Hammer

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The Hammer is an orange Shotgun manufactured by Vladof.

Examples are on the talk page.

Special Weapon Effects

Drop the Hammer! - Explosive x2, x3 or x4. High damage. Spread pattern is a tilted hammer.

Hammer spread — The special spread of the Hammer.

Usage & Description

The Hammer is not an exceptional explosive weapon, unlike the Torgue Cobra, or the Atlas Ogre. Further more, like most shotguns, it does not really profit from its element. The strength of the Hammer lies in just plain raw damage. Vladof weapons already have exceptional fire rates, but the Hammer also has exceptionally high damage. The Hammer is the shotgun to pull out at a critical time, to just dish out a storm of metal. The explosive effect is a good plus, but not the core of the weapon.

Brick and Lilith can make good use of this weapon, as thier skills and coms can increase the elemental damage output of the Hammer. Brick especially can improve the explosive damage and use the Hammer to reduce his action skill cooldown time. Both Brick and Roland can use coms to further increase the Hammers already incredible rate of fire and damage output.

Notes

Spread pattern is fixed, and not affected by accuracy.
Due to the distinct pattern of the shotgun spread, it is advisable to aim with the upper-right corner of the crosshairs.

Trivia

The name and red text is a reference to the military term for firing an artillery piece, "dropping the hammer".
The hammer is tilted in such a way as to resemble (half of) the symbol of the Soviet Union.

Mechanics

The Hammer effect comes from the acc5_Vladof_Hammer accessory. While it is an elemental accessory based off of acc5_Explosive, the Hammer should really be compared to acc4_Painful. While the Painful accessory increases damage by 13%, the Hammer increases it by a massive 50%. For an explanation on how to interpret the information on the following table, please see the stat modifiers page.

acc5_Vladof_Hammer	acc5_Explosive	acc4_Painful
Damage: +50% Tech Level: +10 Clip Size: +2	Damage: -40% Tech Level: +6	Damage: +13% Knockback: +23%

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 == Usage & Description ==
-The Hammer is not an exceptional explosive weapon, unlike the [[Torgue]] [[Cobra (Sniper Rifle)|Cobra]], or the [[Atlas]] [[Ogre]]. Further more, like most shotguns, it does not really profit from its element. The strength of the Hammer lies in just plain raw damage. Vladof weapons already have exceptional fire rates, but the Hammer also has exceptionally high damage. The Hammer is the shotgun to pull out at a critical time, to just dish out a storm of metal. The explosive effect is a good plus, but not the core of the weapon.With high damage and fire rate,Hammer can dash out damage real quick.Brick can get good use of this weapon,as he is an explosive expert and doing explosive damage to enemy can reduce his action skill regeneration ,especially this weapon can be fired quickly.So with the right method,30 second of regeneration time can be reduced to several second.Making it one of the best weapon selection for Brick.
+The Hammer is not an exceptional explosive weapon, unlike the [[Torgue]] [[Cobra (Sniper Rifle)|Cobra]], or the [[Atlas]] [[Ogre]]. Further more, like most shotguns, it does not really profit from its element. The strength of the Hammer lies in just plain raw damage. Vladof weapons already have exceptional fire rates, but the Hammer also has exceptionally high damage. The Hammer is the shotgun to pull out at a critical time, to just dish out a storm of metal. The explosive effect is a good plus, but not the core of the weapon.
+Brick and Lilith can make good use of this weapon, as thier skills and coms can increase the elemental damage output of the Hammer. Brick especially can improve the explosive damage and use the Hammer to reduce his action skill cooldown time. Both Brick and Roland can use coms to further increase the Hammers already incredible rate of fire and damage output.
 == Notes ==