Guild Wars 2

Does anyone have updates regarding the ele during the beta?

How does the ele fair against the Rev?

Kodiak.3281:

The biggest issue when you get down to Comparisons is the fact that Revenant at this time is lacking full gear selections and full trait lines. For example there’s no Power line at this time nor the direct damage focused Legend.

That said I found it very comfortable to play and found a lot of cross over from Elementalist game play. For example using the Road Utility and then Hammer 5 -> Hammer 3 to blast two stacks of AOE Swiftness for getting around. The hammer also does very well during events for tagging with large, spammable AOEs with the Shockwave and the naturally piercing attacks. Depending on what else they have for Utilities (there’s 2 more legends and then an elite legend left) they could be a familiar alternative for a Staff Elementalist but an unlikely replacement.

Mace/Axe was very condi oriented and had a great feel for smaller encounters. Axe abilities were pretty amazing, but Mace was fairly slow and felt it.

Interesting, thanks for the review. So there seems like there’s no burst weapon (or at least not one released) for the revenant.

The biggest issue when you get down to Comparisons is the fact that Revenant at this time is lacking full gear selections and full trait lines. For example there’s no Power line at this time nor the direct damage focused Legend.

That said I found it very comfortable to play and found a lot of cross over from Elementalist game play. For example using the Road Utility and then Hammer 5 → Hammer 3 to blast two stacks of AOE Swiftness for getting around. The hammer also does very well during events for tagging with large, spammable AOEs with the Shockwave and the naturally piercing attacks. Depending on what else they have for Utilities (there’s 2 more legends and then an elite legend left) they could be a familiar alternative for a Staff Elementalist but an unlikely replacement.

Mace/Axe was very condi oriented and had a great feel for smaller encounters. Axe abilities were pretty amazing, but Mace was fairly slow and felt it.

Thank you. I wonder if anyones had a Rev Vs Ele fight.

Quote from friend:

• so far my only thoughts have been, hammer revenant new frontline meta unless there are some big nerfs.
• Everyone on Reddit is complaining that the Rev has low DPS, but the equipment loadout they gave you for the demo rev only came with 1387 power, which is laughably low. I think with proper gearing it will hit like a truck.

As it is now,

• 100% ranged combo finisher on basic attack

• aoe kd on demand

• aoe stab on demand

• moving directed reflect on demand, works with basic for life steal combo

• blast finisher/chill on demand

• heal is a full condi cleanse

• ult gives aoe damage reduction.

Basically if you could pick and choose, inventing the most op skills you could think of to put on a WvW Zerg frontliner, the hammer rev is what you would come up with.

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PS. by the sound of things looks like DnD playstyle for small roam setups