I ran into you on your revenant the other day, Archon.
Uh oh! I am sure that was a tough fight for me, especially against someone of your caliber! 
. Highly skilled Revs are the toughest opponents to face. Hands down. And I can barely use that class at the moment!
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I ran into you on your revenant the other day, Archon.
Uh oh! I am sure that was a tough fight for me, especially against someone of your caliber!
Ha, I’m pretty mediocre in 1v1s, I just get by on having played too much.
I thought for sure it would a be tough match since I recognized your name and revs are nasty, but unfortunately your teammates gave up pretty quickly. Oh well, I got a tag on you at the mid fight as a trophy.
As we germans would say, I’m now “giving my mustard” to this topic.
Ranger main since release, currently diamond, 3k hours, mostly solo/smallscale roaming and PvP so I hope I know what I’m talking about.
Even with S&R slotted, which is of course not optimal in 1v1 I can tell you that I can take on almost everything in a 1v1 and pretty much everything if not played very well. I currently run a mercenary axe/torch + staff build, full shouts + trooper runes (Hope they fix them soon).
There are some problematic builds/enemies I encountered and I’m just gonna give you my opinion and some “tricks” I got used to fighting them. I’m now talking about onpoint fights.
-Condi Reaper: Mostly you got 1-2 in the enemy team. You can take on them, but you have to be really careful about their CC of which mostly is pretty telegraphed. Playing with sound can also help a lot avoiding their elite shout. If you play with LB and ancient seeds your best bet is to kick them offpoint and rooting them, so you can freely decap/cap. If you play with beastly warden and they play plague signet let your smokescale attack/taunt them, thus their plague signet autoproc will often hit the smokescale which is then invulnerable due to standing in its F2 field. Also the active plague signet doesn’t have your longbows range and also won’t hit the smokescale in its F2. Knockback + ancient seeds proc and then step back to the other end of the point. Also, using S&R to proc the rune for the cleanse can save your life.
-Chronophantasma Mesmer: Pretty hard setup onpoint, not in your favour. Don’t even try decapping alone. You can hold the point for quite a while when you’re getting used to use avatar for condicleanse. If you realise you can’t kill him, just play defensively, make a lot of use of your CAF 2, you can pretty much clean all the condis for 15 seconds, just step out of the nullfield. What you can also do is destroying his illusions instead of attacking him, reducing his damage. But it’s only for stalling, works fine if you know a mate is gonna help you out.
-Thieves: Well, a well played thief can take you out pretty quickly, mostly if you’re squishy and your CAF isn’t up. I feel capping/decapping against a thief is pretty easy actually. Torch 4 + 5 will almost every time make them disengage. They have to choose between the condi cleanse on dodge and the pulmonary impact. If they chose the condi cleanse they mostly won’t have enough damage to kill you, if they choose the pulmonary impact they will lack condi cleanse. What’s important for every match that involves a thief is having an eye on your close point and that he could always show up and turn a 1v1 in a 1v2. Communicate and mark the thief, so people know when not to worry.
-Condi Revenant: It will be hard, due to their AoE-ish nature. Get used to know when to pop CAF, also make use of your CAF 2. If you play a hybrid setup like me, the way to go is normal dmg when they use Mallyx and condi dmg when they use Glint.
-Power Revenant: Sword 2 + legend swap + weapon swap with hydromanty + Staff 5 is a killcombo, even taking you out when you’re decently tanky – try to predict and get used to the cooldowns. Protection, weakness and guard! are tools to counter the enormous damage, but take care of your pet. For both power and condi revenant: Have an eye on their buffbar when they’re in Glint form and watch out for the heal. You can cut their sustain by a huge amount by not attacking them meanwhile and taking our pet back. Good revenants try to time their Glint heals in obvious attacks like the bristleback F2, you can always bite them into it and then cancel the cast.
-Eles and Engis: Most of them play bunker(ish). You won’t kill them, they won’t kill you. Don’t try to decap alone but you should be able to hold your point.
Hope this is going to help you guys a bit – just some of my personal experience against the classes you talked about.
Ah, and gratulations for your wings
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@Shirk, mind posting your build? I’ve had no issues with my sword/warhorn staff druid in PvP, but I’ve bored myself to death with it
@Shirk, mind posting your build? I’ve had no issues with my sword/warhorn staff druid in PvP, but I’ve bored myself to death with it
No issues at all, just the meta chronophantasma is a threat onpoint.
@Shirk, mind posting your build? I’ve had no issues with my sword/warhorn staff druid in PvP, but I’ve bored myself to death with it
No issues at all, just the meta chronophantasma is a threat onpoint.
Any competent Condition class will kill you. And I mean competent. They can just bomb you in AF. and you’re dead.
@Shirk, mind posting your build? I’ve had no issues with my sword/warhorn staff druid in PvP, but I’ve bored myself to death with it
No issues at all, just the meta chronophantasma is a threat onpoint.
Is it actually supposed to be mercenary’s amulet? Cause you only have a 4% crit chance so you aren’t getting as much mileage out of generosity sigils. Did you mean Vipers?