Guild Wars 2

condi rev loses to burn guard, condi warr of every variant, necro(obviously) and mesmer 1v1. As a power rev in this meta you don’t have enough condi cleanse to sustain in a team fight, and since all of condi revs burst skills damage is nerfed to unnessacary amounts you cant even be as effective of a roamer as thief.
Condi classes are going to flourish the ladders if there isnt a few strong power classes to help counter them, if Anet were to look at the class balance for the current season, already on the first day it’s extremely imbalanced, this meta is going to be condi and bunk, and there wont be a power rev to kill them through blocks. and thiefs are going to melt from 1 burn guard skill. The only place where a power rev would be effective is in a coordinated 5v5 team scenario, which is gone this season.

You must be playing Condi Rev wrong or going against classes that corrupt resistance. Mallyx Revs should love burn guards in teamfights, especially if you’re running the copy condition trait, and most of the time against condi warriors when they pop their resistance you can boon strip it.

Lucentfir.7430:

You must be playing Condi Rev wrong or going against classes that corrupt resistance. Mallyx Revs should love burn guards in teamfights, especially if you’re running the copy condition trait, and most of the time against condi warriors when they pop their resistance you can boon strip it.

Condi warrs have have better condi burst output then condi rev though, they also have better utilities, you’d rather have a condi warr on your team then a condi rev, there’s no place for them, if the other team has a bunch of burn guards, you’d rather have an ele over condi rev. If Mallyx utilities didnt cost so much energy it would be more viable, but as of right now you have to spam pain absorption since everyones condi and your struggling to micro manage your energy if you try and set up any burst.

A few changes I feel would be good to help this situation would be
Pain absorption cost changed to 20. ( atm when entering a fight if you have to pop pain absorption early, you’ll be energy starved and cant do anything but run around or auto attack for dps.

Unyielding anguish lasting 8 seconds instead of 4. ( the ability is practically useless, it only has very situational use, like a lot of rev skills :c make it an actual field )

Renewing wave instant cast, this is the only condi cleanse power rev has besides 1 condi on stance swap and leadership rune and the cast is so long by the time you get it off the damage is done, it doesn’t make any sense for this to have such a long cast time or even one at all.

Punishing sweep \ Debilitating slam also needs some kind of rework, its nearly impossible to land the ability unless you have very good latency.

I disagree, but even if you were correct – no one would cry a single tear.