Guild Wars 2

Hey folks,

I’m looking into getting into the game, as I haven’t played it since before the release of HoT. The Revenant looks really interesting to me as it somewhat reminds me of old GW1 mechanics with energy etc. How are they looking currently (PvE – Open World & Stories/WvW) with the latest balance patch?

Used to main a Warrior before quiting, but looking to try some other classes out now.

Do you have any good builds to recommend for the PvE, as I suspect PvP builds could be easily found on sites like metabattle.com?

Cheers in advance!

//Havoc

I really need to get a link to my build and so I can start sharing it around here.

Anyway rev is great in open world PvE since it’s very versatile and (contrary to what some ignorants say) very mobile.

Usually I run a condi build with Jalis and Mallyx. If you are still leveling and you have to chose what to trait, I would recomend going corruption first as it will give you the bigest damage boost, and conditions scale better while leveling up than power builds.

Revenant is my first and most played profession. Because of his energy system, his CD can be (and are) shorter. That being said his most optimal rotation (speaking about power) is spaming aa and #2 on cd. If you want class with dificult rotation this is not for you. On the other hand there are alot of situational things you can do.
I used to run shiro/glint but switched shiro for jalis and never went back. You will never have highest dps but with 2 30 s cd heals its very hard to die and you carry so much cc that you can break bosees alone, + you bring many specific party boons.

The whole class is basicaly about balancing skills with upkeep and flat cost

Thanks for the replies..

Will try it out and see if it’s for me. If anyone could share their builds in more detail I would be super happy. Not even sure what stats to go for, or is it Berzerkers as usual as with other classes?

if you want power build, go for berserker sword mainhand and 90 percent of time axe offhand with herald invocations and usualy devastations (or retribution maybe), Second weapon is usualy staff (u are swaping to staff only for breaks) ot maybe hammer for ranged .

For condi build it is usualy invocations + corruptions and one other (i think) with mace mainhand. And one of your legends needs to be demon. Viper stats.

if you want to go for healer build u want invocations salvation and herald usualy with sword/shild and staff, ventari+glint and magi stats

But things might have changed with this patch, didnt have a chance to play on it myself.