Ashamed to play Revenant in spvp?
I played the Revenant in 4 Conquest matches yesterday evening. I lost every one of them. In the third match, a player refused to play, and instead spent the entire game sitting at the spawn point and flaming me for bringing the Rev into PvP. Ordinarily I’d say I’d never deserve that kind of shabby treatment, but given how weak the class is, I was literally disadvantaging my team just by playing it.
When I look at MMO classes, I like to consider each one having four areas of potential strengths and weaknesses:
1. Offense/Damage
2. Defense/Healing
3. Mobility
4. Utility/Crowd Control
All of the other GW2 classes have the potential to excel in most of these areas, depending on how they are built. At the present time, the only thing the Revenant can do is heal.
1. Damage is an order of magnitude lower than other classes (there are many threads around where people much smarter than I have done the math).
2. Its lack of reliable CC compounds its too-long cast times, so it’s hard to hit with your skills.
3. It has only one stun break (with an extremely high cost) and very little mobility, so there’s not much you can do to defend yourself from damage spikes/burst.
4. Micro-ing Ventari’s tablet for healing and survival leaves little opportunity to do anything else with the class, and given the tablet move time, cast times, delayed effects of utilities, and lack of stun breaker, you’re dead if someone bursts you anyway.
Where are blocks,stun breaks,etc.? Swap legend…and then you are stuck with skills you don’t want or can’t help you. And what a "rich " choice of what you want for utility skills
I agree, a lot.