Guild Wars 2

I just finished crafting Mistward Armor (yay!). I thought it would be a great opportunity to try out another stat combo besides Berserker. I am amassing the materials to make heavy ascended for my Rev, and I always think it is wise to try more than one stat combo for a character before pulling the trigger on an expensive investment like ascended armor. I do not mind making him glassy and keeping him in Beserker necessarily, but I wouldn’t mind giving him a bit more tankiness, or even making him a condi Rev if that would help me use him for raids. And that leads to my next question, how does Herald fit in raids, and is that something I should be thinking about when designing his ascended build?

I haven’t been playing him long (he’s Charr if that matters). It just so happens that I have been saving these mats for awhile, and that means I am well on my way to having enough mats to make a completed set, so that is pushing me to thinking about this a little more urgently than I normally would, and I am not going to know his abilities nearly as well as I do my main, so I am going to be relying more on what I can research than my personal experiences. I bucked the meta when I designed my Reaper’s build, and it was the right choice considering she is a great tank, so I am open to lots of different ideas.

Berserker’s will be the best investment simply because it’s the best power glass set (especially since Rev can get close to 100% crit on his own). I think in PvE Rev (or rather Herald) is pretty easy to play glassy, since conditions aren’t that common and in a group you usually have someone to take them off you. So the heals provided by Glint and/or Shiro/Dwarf (hammers syphon quite nicely and do some damage) coupled with the blocks and evades should keep you alive.

If you really want to take a bit more punishment, I’d suggest Marauder’s. Stacking toughness can be a problem in Raids where better groups want to take as little toughness as possible on their tank to avoid losing too much damage.
Condi Rev is pretty meh, because you want to camp Mallyx for maximum Torment stacks, but Revenant is pretty much only taken for Herald boon spending. And Torment on its own doesn’t do stellar damage in PvE. Other condi classes do more damage and bring more utility.

In Raids people usually want Revenant for the Facet of Nature buff (+50% boon duration that actually goes over the 100% cap), so the Chronomancer can stack Quickness more easily, plus for easy Fury/Might if need be. Rev/Herald also has decent amounts of CC to bring.

Thanks, Beserker it is. I have been using Berserker exotics, and while he dies much easier than my Reaper does, he isn’t completely squishy.

Yeah, Reaper with a second healthbar certainly takes more punishment as it is. Berserkers can be used on Rev, War and Guard pretty much, so I’d say it’s the best investment overall.
Good luck to you.

If you don’t want to risk and go with what is the best at this moment, go with berserk ascended armor. As Sourde said above, you can use it with every heavy class in raids (for guardian and revenant, use scholar runes, for warrior too, but it depends on a party composition [runes of strength might be necessary for 25 stacks]).

You can experiment with Mallyx Revenant even with exotic armor+ weapons and ascended condi trinkets. It is not that big deal. If you see that it can work for you, build another ascended, but I wouldn’t believe it will. Condi warrior was nerfed big time, I don’t see any reason to take him to raid instead of engi/necro. Condi guardian is also meh. From my perspective, it might have some play in WvW.