Guild Wars 2

I did some thinking today and…

What we know about Revenants/what’s been repeatedly emphasized is that when you swap legends you have a whole different play style available to you. E.g. Mallyx seems like he’s gonna be all about spreading conditions and the Dwarf is supposed to make you tanky. How is this going to work for gear/stats? If I run a condi build I typically want my gear to be rabid/carrion, but if I run a tanky build I want to be in soldier’s or cleric’s. E.g. I don’t want to be “tanky” in full zerker gear. How will Revenants be able to take full advantage of their gear given how many different stats it sounds like they will need to be effective? Is swapping between legends going to provide a boost to the stat that all of it’s skills would most benefit from? Or is everyone just going to end up using celestial gear?

CONVERSELY: We know that swapping legends changes your utility skills and not your weapon skills. Can we assume then that the utility skills won’t depend on your stats as much and rather have strategic or defensive use most of the time? Does this mean that if I wield the correct weapons I could play a power build regardless (for example) of Mallyx’s apparent design around conditions?

Probably gonna be “use two specific legends, greatsword (if they have it) and full zerk”
=P

/sarcasmoff

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/In-Combat-Rev-Gear-Swapping/first#post4811761

Same thread.

Full zerk, cause that’s the ascended heavy gear I already have.

I’ll probably just give him the Berserker gear from my Guardian and buy exotic Zerker from the WvW trader. I don’t see the Revenant being an exception to the Zerker meta.

I’ll wait to see how the new map will be, since the meta depends on the environment, not class itself.
So far Berzerker, Sinister and Celestial are really good candidates.

i imagine on PvP they will be one of those few professions that can run celestial well because of versatility.

but we don’t know nearly enough about the legends and the utility skills to start speculating on anything else.

I see this as no different than Ele attunements. Based on the two brief looks we’ve seen at legends you can go with full zerk for raw dps, soldiers for tankiness or Dire for a mix of damages or celestial for everything.

I’ll probably default to zerk. Between being ranged and a medium health pool, I’m not too worried about survivability.

Morsus.5106:

I’ll probably just give him the Berserker gear from my Guardian and buy exotic Zerker from the WvW trader. I don’t see the Revenant being an exception to the Zerker meta.

Fair enough and I agree with you. Zerker will probably remain unchallenged in PvE. Though I was thinking about PvP when I wrote this thread xD

One thing that is not speculation is that the only ascended heavy armor I have is Zerker and there is no way in hell I’m going to make a new set.

Zanshin.5379:

One thing that is not speculation is that the only ascended heavy armor I have is Zerker and there is no way in hell I’m going to make a new set.

Well between drops and collections (plus they’ll probably add new collections that drop armor chests), you may just end up with another set. Agreed though, not crafting ascended armor again. Timegated B.S.

For PvE, except if they balance condition it will either be assassins or bezerker.

For PvP, celestial seem like a good option for what we know of the Revenant, but we’ll see.

Ill probably start with Berserker to begin with, but if I find something else is more fun, or Revenant is squishy, ill swap to something else.

Celestial comes to mind, I also think it could be good for condi gears.

I hope the expansion does something to break the berserker meta… so…

Perhaps a combination of Rampagers/Soldiers/Knights.

Power.2957:

Morsus.5106:

I’ll probably just give him the Berserker gear from my Guardian and buy exotic Zerker from the WvW trader. I don’t see the Revenant being an exception to the Zerker meta.

Fair enough and I agree with you. Zerker will probably remain unchallenged in PvE. Though I was thinking about PvP when I wrote this thread xD

For PvP I’ll go with something bunker-y. I enjoy bunkering down on a point, even if I’m no good at 1v1.