Guild Wars 2

“Similarly, there will be changes in boon duration and boon application for a few professions. For the Revenant, we’ll be looking at reducing Naturalistic Resonance’s base boon duration.”

Lets hope they atleast fix some bugs, otherwise the class is getting completly useless. Thanks anet.

Aury.1367:

“Similarly, there will be changes in boon duration and boon application for a few professions. For the Revenant, we’ll be looking at reducing Naturalistic Resonance’s base boon duration.”

Lets hope they atleast fix some bugs, otherwise the class is getting completly useless. Thanks anet.

Source?

Jack Skywalker.5674:

Source?

Anet
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Balance-Changes-Upcoming/first

This nerf will definitely kill the raidvenant :/

They saw only 1 build in metabattle for rev and said: uuu 1 is too many, let’s take it away.

Is kinda sucky for everyone I think. I’ve come to rely on natural resonance to make certain traits and runes somewhat effective and it wasn’t cheap.

Redfeather.6401:

Is kinda sucky for everyone I think.

Well, Eles have a lot to be happy about now that they won’t have to compete with Thieves for DPS slots.

This is most likely not going to kill raid revenant. Suppose they reduce the boon duration to 25 or 30%. This will still be wanted so that chrono can take more dps gear.

Also, to me Naturalistic Resonance is the third most important thing about rev. #1 is fury. #2 is protection. Those are likely going to be buffed to compensate.

Stop being all doom and gloom until we know all the changes and have had some time to play around with them.

If they decrease the protection skill upkeep cost to compensate it would be nice. But they won’t, this is Nerfenant… every patch we get nerfed as always.

Fluffy.1932:

This is most likely not going to kill raid revenant. Suppose they reduce the boon duration to 25 or 30%. This will still be wanted so that chrono can take more dps gear.

Also, to me Naturalistic Resonance is the third most important thing about rev. #1 is fury. #2 is protection. Those are likely going to be buffed to compensate.

Stop being all doom and gloom until we know all the changes and have had some time to play around with them.

I really don’t care too much about PvE raids, due I barely put my shoes on them, but…

I’m currently farming the Leadership runes in WvW; takes a ton of time but the alternative (Dragon’s Stand farming) is EVEN slower. The main reason I’m trying to get those runes is because I’m running condi Herald (Glint + Mallyx); Rev lacks condi cleansing and even the 50% boon increase from Facet of Nature isn’t enough to get the much needed sustain vs condis in WvW roaming. Also, I’m using a condi build due hammer is useless, we have no ranged game and power Rev can be kitted to death after the mobility nerfs, so condi at least puts pressure on kitters (torment).

For me would be pretty terrible to discover that after spending over 70 hours just to get a +30% boon duration runes the patch cuts our +boon duration in the same amount. I really really don’t care about how Rev/Herald performs in PvE and team composition, but the lack of division in this game between gamemodes is truly damaging and discouraging since the point of view of the lost effort.

Also, FIX the kitten bugs. We are JADED about Rev skills that doesn’t properly work. I don’t care about buffs, I’m tired about using skills that do nothing when the hotkey is pressed due the floor elevation has a 3% tilt and some other equaly absurd problems which are dragged since a year ago, despite being one of the classes with less weapons, less skills and less fexibility.

Sorry guys, this is my fault as I was sick of necro raiding and JUST finished gearing up my rev for raids.

narcx.3570:

Sorry guys, this is my fault as I was sick of necro raiding and JUST finished gearing up my rev for raids.

Kill him with fire. Kill him before he lays eggs.

I really doubt they’ll stop at that change when it comes to nerfs.

Euthymias.7984:

I really doubt they’ll stop at that change when it comes to nerfs.

Lol i am still waiting for sword rework, proper buffs to sword offhand, Jalis rework, removed cd’s from utilities.. Who i am kidding right?

You do realize that if Mesmer Signet of Inspiration and Revenant Naturalistic Resonance becomes nerfed, that the next cheese-build is spam Rite of the Great Dwarf with Versed in Stone for Revenant, right? No other spam-it-to-win comes close to a 50% all around damage reduction (pair with a stability/protection boon Guardian Shout build for good measure and enjoy).

The best case scenario for Revenant is the nerf to Naturalistic Resonance is replaced with a boon enhancement (or cooldown reduction) of One With Nature (the active effect) and this may actually be a buff to Revenant after gear reconfig. Patch incoming so we’ll know shortly …

Balance patch is next week i believe.

Burtnik.5218:

Balance patch is next week i believe.

It just came, with many, many nerfs to overall Revenant and well… the damage increase they would add is no where to be seen on the changelog. Gonna delete Revenant right now, can’t believe my Guardian is more of a DPS class now.

As predicted and even worse, nerfenant. Lets just nerf it but fix one kitten bug. Lets get rid of boonshare mesmers but buff all other mesmer builds like hell. seriously?

Aldath.1275:

Burtnik.5218:

Balance patch is next week i believe.

It just came, with many, many nerfs to overall Revenant and well… the damage increase they would add is no where to be seen on the changelog. Gonna delete Revenant right now, can’t believe my Guardian is more of a DPS class now.

I had a feeling the announcement last week was worded in a way that could mean mesmers get the dps increase, not revenant. So when I read the patch notes, I just thought ‘yep, oh well’.

I’m not really sad though. I’m just sighing. Have to change my build because it was a non-glint power rev using naturalistic resonance and retribution’s stability on dodge. I used rune of evasion and retribution traits to get a dodge to synergize with Elder’s Force for bursts. Ohhhhhhhh well.

Yup, looks like there’s not much reason to use Retribution trait line anymore.