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Mostly what Cessa said. I would put hammer on harder to use versus sword, and sword is almost close to Arisha in terms having a well rounded and full kit. Arisha probably just edges Fiona out in that Arisha works across all levels and gears.
Also, I would say Ein is a good standard to see how characters are now with Neamhain being out. I highly doubt many will be carrying cat statues in favor of fang in there especially in a PUG environment.
Pretty much why I stopped playing Fiona completely. Hammer has to deal with a lot of annoying BS like trying to deflect Regina's narrow attacks or Glas's high swings to get respectable damage out, but comparatively speaking it doesn't really do much with how much damage the other weapons are doing. Another peeve I've had since Ignition is that hammers seem to rely on getting alot of smaller weaker hits in while swords have been more of getting single stronger hits (not including lightsaber). What.
Right now hammer is just anything sword can do but weaker and unsafer.
Combat is close to, if not, the best in MMOs. Everything else not so much. Endgame gearing is quite a exercise in the most extreme of patience (or money).
Despite all that, the combat is good that it's worth trying it out.