Herald comeback
maybe?
I doubt we will ever see 4-4-2 again, as SOI is no where near as powerful as it was when that was meta. So you won’t replace a chrono, additionally condi ps was buffed so I doubt a herald could replace a warrior now (I could be wrong about this).
That means rev would either have to replace a druid or a dps. I will say this, I have seen padl logs where a pure power mesmer hit 25k+. So a herald/condi rev hybrid in the dps slot allowing chrono to bring less commander gear could be significant if it allows chrono to get closer to its pure damage build. Or a healer herald generating alacrity could allow chrono to keep fewer shield phantasms up and more sword phantasms, but possibly at the heavy cost of 2 gotl stacks. Additionally, your condi ps could probably run berserker runes, and/or damage sigils.
I don’t know OP, I’m not really a numbers guy who can give you specifics. Qualitatively, the right trade offs are in place. That is to say, facet of nature would allow 4 builds to change (2 ps and 2 chrono). If it were possible for rev to focus facet of nature onto those 4 players specifically, you might really be able to do something. However, I don’t know if a group comp exists that would work.
My guess, is that it is unlikely to become a popular thing. But we will have to wait until the more studious guilds make a statement.
Idk if shiro/jalis could even be a good dps with minor support for the group i havent seen any benchamarks or tests ti tell you.
Idk if shiro/jalis could even be a good dps with minor support for the group i havent seen any benchamarks or tests ti tell you.
I don’t think this would catch on as you can’t run Natural Resonance while pulsing Impossible Odds. You’d probably still have to take Herald as none of the other traitline’s have anything that would help a power spec’s dps as much as Elder Force does. And at that point, you might as well be running Natural Resonance, since the utility for your group/opening up their gearing would out-perform the 10% damage you’re getting from IO. Now if they reduced IO’s upkeep to 8 in PvE only we might have something.
The reason you can get away with Mallyx/Jalis/No Herald Traitline is because Torment is so strong in some of the fights that Revenant can realistically replace a lot of dps classes. I don’t think Power Rev has the deeps to flat out replace a dps class without bringing anything else to the table.
Idk if shiro/jalis could even be a good dps with minor support for the group i havent seen any benchamarks or tests ti tell you.
I don’t think this would catch on as you can’t run Natural Resonance while pulsing Impossible Odds. You’d probably still have to take Herald as none of the other traitline’s have anything that would help a power spec’s dps as much as Elder Force does. And at that point, you might as well be running Natural Resonance, since the utility for your group/opening up their gearing would out-perform the 10% damage you’re getting from IO. Now if they reduced IO’s upkeep to 8 in PvE only we might have something.
The reason you can get away with Mallyx/Jalis/No Herald Traitline is because Torment is so strong in some of the fights that Revenant can realistically replace a lot of dps classes. I don’t think Power Rev has the deeps to flat out replace a dps class without bringing anything else to the table.
what about ele on small hitbox Kappa