Guild Wars 2

For people that don’t know there is alot of new DR food/runes in HOT. I am running runes of the scrapper (7% DR) with 10% food (mussel pasta) in addition to the passives in Retribution.

I have been running staff/hammer dwarf/glint with standard power soldiers/zerker gear. I have been owning with this in WvW and I am an average player at best. Usually I run glint and pop f2/hammers when jumped and dwarf stance if I need to.

Anyone else trying this? If not maybe you should.

I’ve tried. It’s a lot of damage sacrifice for the durability. In WvW, I don’t have as much of an issue with this because the in/out style works well for me (either solo or zerg v zerg). If you are having trouble surviving, you are probably swapping this utility food/runes for Berserker gear (or Condi gear). If you stayed in mostly Soldiers/Dires, you could use the offensive food/runes.

Where Revenant needs help is with condition spam (Hoelbrak/Melandru) and CC spam (Melandru/Food) lots of energy/dodge roll stab. Basically, it involves a lot of Jalis road spam to deal with the latter or camping Mallyx for Resistance boon for the former (lots of boon stripping these days). Glint remains necessary in order to not hit like a wet noodle or die to any immediate focus fire so … pick your poison.

Artaz.3819:

I’ve tried. It’s a lot of damage sacrifice for the durability. In WvW, I don’t have as much of an issue with this because the in/out style works well for me (either solo or zerg v zerg). If you are having trouble surviving, you are probably swapping this utility food/runes for Berserker gear (or Condi gear). If you stayed in mostly Soldiers/Dires, you could use the offensive food/runes.

Where Revenant needs help is with condition spam (Hoelbrak/Melandru) and CC spam (Melandru/Food) lots of energy/dodge roll stab. Basically, it involves a lot of Jalis road spam to deal with the latter or camping Mallyx for Resistance boon for the former (lots of boon stripping these days). Glint remains necessary in order to not hit like a wet noodle or die to any immediate focus fire so … pick your poison.

Yeah you sacrifice some damage modifiers to run this. The problem isn’t with damage for any kind of front line. The problem is sustain. It’s why I dropped my warrior because outside of double endure pain they have nothing. Rev has some unique solutions for sustain that I wanted to highlight.

I run half soldiers/zerker with about 3000 armor in glint, 20k hp, 80% critical and passive additional ~25% DR. It might take 8 hits instead of 6 to drop them but the last three they were running trying to disengage. They drop their bomb and panic when you are still sitting at 80%

I don’t have any issues with condis nobody seems to run them in blob fights in T2. CC is tough I run enhanced bulwark and try and get in a group with a guard.

quercus.9261:

Artaz.3819:

I’ve tried. It’s a lot of damage sacrifice for the durability. In WvW, I don’t have as much of an issue with this because the in/out style works well for me (either solo or zerg v zerg). If you are having trouble surviving, you are probably swapping this utility food/runes for Berserker gear (or Condi gear). If you stayed in mostly Soldiers/Dires, you could use the offensive food/runes.

Where Revenant needs help is with condition spam (Hoelbrak/Melandru) and CC spam (Melandru/Food) lots of energy/dodge roll stab. Basically, it involves a lot of Jalis road spam to deal with the latter or camping Mallyx for Resistance boon for the former (lots of boon stripping these days). Glint remains necessary in order to not hit like a wet noodle or die to any immediate focus fire so … pick your poison.

Yeah you sacrifice some damage modifiers to run this. The problem isn’t with damage for any kind of front line. The problem is sustain. It’s why I dropped my warrior because outside of double endure pain they have nothing. Rev has some unique solutions for sustain that I wanted to highlight.

I run half soldiers/zerker with about 3000 armor in glint, 20k hp, 80% critical and passive additional ~25% DR. It might take 8 hits instead of 6 to drop them but the last three they were running trying to disengage. They drop their bomb and panic when you are still sitting at 80%

I don’t have any issues with condis nobody seems to run them in blob fights in T2. CC is tough I run enhanced bulwark and try and get in a group with a guard.

In no way do I believe that Rev is anywhere near zerg WvW survival as Warrior (it’s not just Endure Pain and trait, it’s a whole slew of traits, weapon abilities and runes synergy). And also Warrior pales in comparison to Guardian at front-line after the initial clash (thanks to the RF) and the way that Stab stacks are so much more crucial now.

Condis are not a problem for you probably because of the Guardians, Necros and Warriors (Trooper runes) nearby. It’s actually really really spam ridden condis/CC flying everywhere. It has nothing to do with T2 vs T1 (or elsewhere). I notice it immediately playing my Warr/Guard compared to Rev in WvW how “weak” to condi I really am in that initial clash (even in much smaller/havoc skirmishes).

If they (solo) drop their bomb on you and you’re still at 80%, they are playing defensive stat set up as well and probably you evaded part of it too which means you were not CC’d. It has very little to do with your specific gear choices. I curse every time I see a thief cause I know a 7s slow is coming my way.

The problem with rev is the lack of stability. In wvw the road is not enough.