Guild Wars 2

Is Shiro/Mallyx ;o

-Slow without traveler runes due to 0 access to swiftness
-No defensive tools as protection, you have to rely purely on yourself to keep yourself alive
-Easy to stunlock in Mallyx, gotta live with it till they dont do proper buffing
-Easy to burst down in a teamfight
+Good utility – boon strip, chill (leap can do 5k for it whole duration, no joke)
+Decent vs condi builds (except necros due to fear which obviously you cant stunbreak..)
+Good healing abilities which doesnt rely on opponent mistake unlike Glint
+Insane damage if you manage to get quite a bit condi on yourself
+Way more fun than Glint boonbot.

Imho worth giving it a try as alternative, just watch out for heavy cc builds.
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Alternative would be to dish out retribution for invocation but versed in stone can sometimes really save your kitten if you just swapped to Mallyx.

Not super familiar with damage scaling on the rev yet, so i’ll ask you.. How well does Mallyx work in Zerker gear? I figured something like sinister would benefit the heavy condi application of the stance, but if I can keep my zerker gear on and perform comfortably then I will probably give this a shot!

Jewomie.3986:

Not super familiar with damage scaling on the rev yet, so i’ll ask you.. How well does Mallyx work in Zerker gear? I figured something like sinister would benefit the heavy condi application of the stance, but if I can keep my zerker gear on and perform comfortably then I will probably give this a shot!

Banish is weak as it generally boonstrip/condi utility, elite is completely useless for both condi and power builds. Leap work well with both. Leap is basically a necro well without cd. When i played with it it was ticking for 970dmg/s crits on a marauder guard and ~760 on cele scrapper. It also procs life siphon from devastation gm and chills nicely. People move out of node as sword auto with combination of the field really does great pressure. I suggest to give it a try on golems and see yourself and compare it with impossible odds.

I tried shiro/mallyx on both marauder and celestial and it was really fun, however I felt extremely vulnerable to focus fire and CC while in mallyx.

I too am bored with the badness of the non-overused legends so I probably won’t play the class much until it gets fixed.

nearlight.3064:

I tried shiro/mallyx on both marauder and celestial and it was really fun, however I felt extremely vulnerable to focus fire and CC while in mallyx.

I too am bored with the badness of the non-overused legends so I probably won’t play the class much until it gets fixed.

You probably will w8 for a while. We had time for buffing few months but nothing was done. As long theres one viable build they dont give a kitten about rest, thats how it been with every class so far. And cause Roy is a fan of Shiro/Glint and even said hes fine with rev in current position.. yeah it wont happen anytime soon. Its better to look for another game really.

Like holy kitten man, we have olny 15 utility skills with elite spec and they cant make them work?! At this point only 3 utility skills per legend doesnt make any sense anymore, most likely they were just lazy and we ended up with dis..shiro/glint 4ever till next elite spec.

“Like holy kitten man, we have olny 15 utility skills with elite spec and they cant make them work?! At this point only 3 utility skills per legend doesnt make any sense anymore, most likely they were just lazy and we ended up with dis..shiro/glint 4ever till next elite spec.”

This. I really hope you are wrong. Really wrong. I’m enjoying revenant, lore, possibilities, gameplay. But being struck in shiro/glint become a little annoying. Revenant has the less number of abilities than all classes(i’m perfectly fine with the number of skills) and they can"t even make them work? Come on! I really hope you’re wrong and they are going to make something. Or i think i will go out of the game for a while, coz actually i don’t enjoy any class like rev, and if it’s just an half class for long time, it don’t make sense playing too much to the game.

Burtnik.5218:

nearlight.3064:

I tried shiro/mallyx on both marauder and celestial and it was really fun, however I felt extremely vulnerable to focus fire and CC while in mallyx.

I too am bored with the badness of the non-overused legends so I probably won’t play the class much until it gets fixed.

You probably will w8 for a while. We had time for buffing few months but nothing was done. As long theres one viable build they dont give a kitten about rest, thats how it been with every class so far. And cause Roy is a fan of Shiro/Glint and even said hes fine with rev in current position.. yeah it wont happen anytime soon. Its better to look for another game really.

Like holy kitten man, we have olny 15 utility skills with elite spec and they cant make them work?! At this point only 3 utility skills per legend doesnt make any sense anymore, most likely they were just lazy and we ended up with dis..shiro/glint 4ever till next elite spec.

Yeah, I’ll have to see what they do in the pre-league patch coming up. But as of now, chronomancer and reaper both hold my interest much better since I don’t have to worry about constantly feeding in fights to not fit in with the contrived, yet correct meta that herald got stuck with right off the bat.

I dunno; I am really enjoying Mallyx/Glint and manage fine with Sinister gear and using the resistance from demon skills to combat condi’s. However, yes, there is no stun-break but, since I PvE, that is hardly a big concern.

The only thing I find is, sometimes, I will go Shiro/Glint just to rapid-travel a map and then swap back to Mallyx/Glint for combat and that can get annoying when you forget since Shiro is fairly useless when it comes to condi’s.

Oh, and I never bother with Mallyx or Shiro elites… and only use Glint elite for situations wanting knockback (Vale Guardian orbs, South path in Tarir meta, etc.)

The only Mallyx utility worth a kitten is Unyielding Anguish… the one with confusion is pointless in PvE (not that I can see it being used in PvP) and the one with resistance gain is similarly useless when all your teammates are tirelessly purged of their conditions. So, yes, some variety in utilities… or just outright finishing their change of Mallyx from the self-condi necro duplicate to tormenter extraordinaire, needs to occur before it can reach its full potential.

gannondorf.7628:

“Like holy kitten man, we have olny 15 utility skills with elite spec and they cant make them work?! At this point only 3 utility skills per legend doesnt make any sense anymore, most likely they were just lazy and we ended up with dis..shiro/glint 4ever till next elite spec.”

This. I really hope you are wrong. Really wrong. I’m enjoying revenant, lore, possibilities, gameplay. But being struck in shiro/glint become a little annoying. Revenant has the less number of abilities than all classes(i’m perfectly fine with the number of skills) and they can"t even make them work? Come on! I really hope you’re wrong and they are going to make something. Or i think i will go out of the game for a while, coz actually i don’t enjoy any class like rev, and if it’s just an half class for long time, it don’t make sense playing too much to the game.

Im pretty sure there will be minor changes at best. Fact is out of 12 base (16 if we count elites) utility skills, olny 4 to be viable and 3 semi viable and that is;

Banish – its really good for boon stripping howered i think it should corrupt boons.
Anguish – working for both condi and power builds. Good pressure on a node
Riposting shadows – obviously our best skill in rev kitten nal
Impossible odds – decent.

Jade winds – huge cost for little reward. Its easy to dodge, even if you fail you can still stunbreak it which is not a problem for anyone, even necros. Its not even unblockable which is a joke honestly given it has 1 sec casttime. Its a button i rarely try to use outside of pve as its just better to spend energy for impossible odds or anything else really. We dont have many cc, in fact we dont really have any to bait out stunbreaks and thats makes jade winds not really viable on solo settings. If you have someone to bait stunbreaks tho then its the time where it shine. So semi-viable

Phase traversal – this skill fail often. It wasnt really a problem before cd as you could cast it second time and it would work from basically the same position you used before where it didnt worked. You know the problem why it doesnt work majority of the time? Animation. Its the olny teleport in game with casttime and that animation is the reason why it fail so often. Its easy to test with other teleports in game where PT fails but JI does not.

Not olny that, animation is also a reason why it drains energy and goes on cd. Other teleports tend to pop up message “not valid path” if they dont have casttime. Meanwhile PT pop up some bs like out of range. It cannot be used right after without going on cd and consuming energy as the animation itself finished. Thats how programmed it is. I basically stopped using that skill as its terrible in current state and not really needed cus people close the gap to me cus i use hammer. Reason now why i use Shiro is a) riposting shadows b) while Shiro heal sux, everything else we have is terrible. Its semi viable but in my book howered..not really anymore, not as long the animaiton is there.

Pain absord – spam resistance man, spam. Sadly it transfer one condi form your friend to yourself as it was left in the state of Mallyx when it actually made sense. Now it doesnt anymore. Its also quite funny that this ability is not stunbreak yet despite suggestion to make it a stunbreak since bwe1. Semi viable if you fight vs condi build, useless for everything else.

Baseline revenant is a joke that might as well not exits. Meanwhile we dont really need much to make him viable.

Question..why Ventari radius is so tiny? Why it has delayed healing? Why its has cd’s and is so clunky? Unrewarding? Some tweaks and it would be really good legend. It goes also to Jalis and Mallyx.

Mallyx for example was far from being totally viable before the “rework” but it was in much better state than now. Bringing it back to previous state with some buff to elite, stunbreak on pain and boon corruption from banish is all thats we need to make it viable. So little is needed yet so many months of waiting for nothing just bc devs want to shake meta every league instead of promoting build diversity. Thats really a joke and i cant beleive they aiming for esport with such attitude. I doubt anything will change anytime soon.

Is also quite funny that condi oriented legend works better in.. power build! Thats speaking everything about this game and balance made by devs.

Oh and about PT..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d1BZDPL8KA
Will also post this vid on rev bug list. Eventually i will colelct all these funny bugs when i get someone with load of freetime.