Guild Wars 2

I have seen countless posts about people complaining about Revenants lack of condition removal skills/traits, while i agree this is true i do not think that condition removal was the direction the devs wanted to go with.

It was said that the Revenant was going to be the profession that would punish heavy condition professions / Builds. This in my opinion is just what the Revenant does if built correctly. Take a look at Demon stance, nowhere in there does it have condition removal, however it has access to near permanent resistance making you immune to condition effects. Using just the corruption trait Demonic Defiance coupled with the active skill Pain absorption you gain an instant 4 seconds of resistance, even more if you absorb conditions from allies. Add in the trait Pulsating Pestilence and now you are not only immune to conditions but throw them back in your enemies faces every 15 seconds for 3 seconds (The internal cool down of this trait is a tad long i admit but with any luck it will be reworked a little in the future).

If that isn’t enough, add the trait Bolstered Anguish and now you have a 3% increase in damage for every condition on you. Why would you even want to remove them?! For added protection against conditions you could also take the trait Versed in stone from retribution and use Jalis for rite of the great Dwarf and now conditions are 50% less effective on you as long as you have enough energy to upkeep the skill.

Even though there are many flaws with the Revenant still and a lot of things need to be tweaked, i think that keeping conditions on you was the desired effect of the devs, not to remove them. What do you guys think?

I think this is a condition heavy game. They are overused and overdone, and the entire condition system needs a revamp.

Players just live in conditions during combat and that’s a silly design.

Note that pulsating pestilence is bugged and is only pulsing a single stack of torment like an EtD pulse.

I do agree that mallyx is very underrated, since it’s strong offensively but has poor active defenses compared to the shiro bandwagon. I hope they’ll buff mallyx to be less vulnerable to focus fire or give it some of its bite back from bWE2, to let it punish condi spam.

I remember back during Beta when Embrace the Darkness (Mallyx elite) had pulsing pestilence on every tick, so any conditions on you were instantly reflected to all foes with an added stack of torment. I wish that version of Mallyx elite was back though I do agree it was kinda busted since some conditions stack duration not intensity.

I would like to see Anet bring that version of Mallyx ult back but change it if they can so that the conditions you put out do not exceed those on you. Ex. Guardian puts 3 stacks of burning on you for 10 seconds, with Mallyx pulsing like it did in beta you would put 30 burn stacks out on that guardian before the 10 seconds of burns were up. If they changed the effect of it so that you only put those three stacks of burn on the guardian and only applied more if more were applied to you then I think the ability would be balanced since you could use it to punish those Burn Guardians that throw 12 stacks on you in under 2 seconds.

The other thing I think they could do to improve on Demon stance for countering condition specs is changing the elite again when traited with the resistance on demon stance skill use trait so that you have perma resistance while its up, its a costly toggle as is, and I’m sure that wouldn’t be too over the top, that or give Embrace the Darkness the added benefit of reducing condition damage on you by 50% or something. Something to merit taking the Corruption Line and Demon stance as a means to counter the condition Meta. Don’t get me started on Venom Lotus Training DareDevils either, those things are SO annoying to fight QQ