Guild Wars 2

Can anyone think of a reason why rev’s got a complete copy of Lightning Reflexes without any cooldown while the ranger’s has a 40s CD? Rev’s Skill: Riposting Shadows.

Seriously, LR is good, but in comparison 40s CD is totally ridiculous.
Endurance regained ~=~ Vigor from LR
Conditions Removed = same
Only difference is 244 damage…is that worth a 40s CD?

Because Balance.

Well, to be honest, Revenant has alot of copy pasta skills from other classes. Defiance Stance – Warrior, Signet of Might Active – Warrior, Chill to the Bone – Reaper, Signet of Vampirisim – Necro, yada yada. Hell, the instant Revenant was showed off, some one said quote and quote ‘Revenant is proof that Anet reads the necro forums’; my most favorite quote so far.

Doesn’t even end at Revenant as well. I remember someone on the Ranger forum suggesting a better CC for traiting into Trapper’s Expertise, being daze, and guess who got it? Dragon Hunter, lol.

It’s not fair to compare skills on any profession head to head because a profession is not a single skill. It’s the total of every single piece of every bit of a profession, of which each tiny piece has pros and cons.

I think rev’s are as OP and obnoxiously tuned as anyone, but you’re ignoring things as basic as the energy mechanic and as complicated as armor type or traits.

I’m more disturbed by the actual skills wrather than the recharge.

They wrekt vigor, gave thieves another dodge, added in upfront endurance gain on them and revs, and then wrekt the sigil of energy in spvp for anyone else.

Initiative, energy and endurance are resource pools to be managed, not built around and then abused. Revs don’t even have to build around endurance, they just use Riposting shadows lol.

If you hadn’t guessed, ya I’m sick of all the hard defenses like block, invulnerable, reflect, free stability/cc immune and evade spam. When I make a roaming vid there is a distinct lack of good chronomancer. Id have better luck fighting legendary defenders.

End of rant.

They don’t remove the same condis. Riposting shadows = immob, chill, cripple
LR = immob

Given how good reaper chill is that’s kind of big.

Granted we have more condi clear than revs do anyway

Revs were first designed as a class that has strong skills but limited by energy.
However, in the end, energy management is pretty much non-existent and they can still spam most of the time.

Lightning reflexes kinda sucks right now. One of those skills that’s over shadowed by newer more powerful skills. I am referring to both Ranger/Druid skills as well as other professions.

Fortunately Druid doesn’t have to take Lightning Reflexes. Trait for Druidic Clarity and then you can stun break and remove ALL conditions as frequently as every 10 seconds.

Also just to be clear my intent with this post is not to compare apples to apples but just to show that our orange is pretty darned tasty too.