Guild Wars 2

This is mostly why I chose guardian but the weapons seem boring to me lately, I guess the animations just feel to slow to me, and I started a rev and really enjoy how much faster they feel and look, but im wondering how do they play later on? Also are they based around condition or burst? Im not really a fan of condition dps.

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Guardian’s top DPS spec is power hammer. Rev’s top DPS spec is power 1h sword.

Both are fairly dull playstyles because their damage is largely concentrated on their autoattack, and in the case of the revenant your #2 skill.

Herald turns the revenant into a rather passive class as your role is to fart out boon for the group, so you just turn on passives until it’s time to switch to Jalis or Shiro to recharge your energy until Glint is back.

The battlemage is obviously the dagger elementalist or mesmer, or even power reaper. Power reaper isn’t that rotationally engaging either.

So if you want some more engaging rotation you’ll probably go for mesmer or ele.

However, if you truly want an entertaining, rotationally complex class, engineer is your best bet.

Zenith.7301:

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Guardian’s top DPS spec is power hammer. Rev’s top DPS spec is power 1h sword.

Both are fairly dull playstyles because their damage is largely concentrated on their autoattack, and in the case of the revenant your #2 skill.

Herald turns the revenant into a rather passive class as your role is to fart out boon for the group, so you just turn on passives until it’s time to switch to Jalis or Shiro to recharge your energy until Glint is back.

The battlemage is obviously the dagger elementalist or mesmer, or even power reaper. Power reaper isn’t that rotationally engaging either.

So if you want some more engaging rotation you’ll probably go for mesmer or ele.

However, if you truly want an entertaining, rotationally complex class, engineer is your best bet.

Sword on rev doesnt seem like a boring playstyle to me, also just because ele goes into melee range does not mean anything like a battlemage, a battlemage usually has martial and magical ability. And im sorry if that sounded rude but it baffles me when people think ele is a type of battlemage, maybe with conjured weapons but they arent up to par right now.

And I take the forums like a grain of salt when it comes to what people consider bad or good, I only asked about the playstyle, every forum class is saying they are being over nerfed, and only one or two weapons are useful, what are the chances of that really happening? Come on now, I really dont think thats believable.

If its true what you said, that is kind of sad, but its the first time im hearing about this.

Ryou.2398:

Sword on rev doesnt seem like a boring playstyle to me, also just because ele goes into melee range does not mean anything like a battlemage, a battlemage usually has martial and magical ability. And im sorry if that sounded rude but it baffles me when people think ele is a type of battlemage, maybe with conjured weapons but they arent up to par right now.

And I take the forums like a grain of salt when it comes to what people consider bad or good, I only asked about the playstyle, every forum class is saying they are being over nerfed, and only one or two weapons are useful, what are the chances of that really happening? Come on now, I really dont think thats believable.

If its true what you said, that is kind of sad, but its the first time im hearing about this.

In that case Elementalist,Mesmer and Necro with melee weapons as well as Guardian, and Revenant should fit the bill thematicaly for the “battlemage feel”, but seriously now,check them for yourself. Many people said in the past that sword skills on thief or sword and dagger on thief suck but I made them work for me in what I consider to be a good harass build.

Ryou.2398:

Zenith.7301:

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Guardian’s top DPS spec is power hammer. Rev’s top DPS spec is power 1h sword.

Both are fairly dull playstyles because their damage is largely concentrated on their autoattack, and in the case of the revenant your #2 skill.

Herald turns the revenant into a rather passive class as your role is to fart out boon for the group, so you just turn on passives until it’s time to switch to Jalis or Shiro to recharge your energy until Glint is back.

The battlemage is obviously the dagger elementalist or mesmer, or even power reaper. Power reaper isn’t that rotationally engaging either.

So if you want some more engaging rotation you’ll probably go for mesmer or ele.

However, if you truly want an entertaining, rotationally complex class, engineer is your best bet.

Sword on rev doesnt seem like a boring playstyle to me, also just because ele goes into melee range does not mean anything like a battlemage, a battlemage usually has martial and magical ability. And im sorry if that sounded rude but it baffles me when people think ele is a type of battlemage, maybe with conjured weapons but they arent up to par right now.

And I take the forums like a grain of salt when it comes to what people consider bad or good, I only asked about the playstyle, every forum class is saying they are being over nerfed, and only one or two weapons are useful, what are the chances of that really happening? Come on now, I really dont think thats believable.

If its true what you said, that is kind of sad, but its the first time im hearing about this.

Mainly most people are complaining about nothing, i mean i play rev mpst of the time with staff which gives good dps and some sustain, its not the most damage you can do but its good and has more föavour because of the melee staff function.
Sword is for burst and the legend matching it is shiro.
Hammer is the ranged weapon of the class with good cc.
Staff has sustain and shield is support.
If you dont want condi dont take mace or axe and dont take mallyx as legend.
Herald has a dull gameplay when you take glint, i personally prefer shiro and ventari in pve but this is my humble opinion.

InsaneQR.7412:

Ryou.2398:

Zenith.7301:

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Guardian’s top DPS spec is power hammer. Rev’s top DPS spec is power 1h sword.

Both are fairly dull playstyles because their damage is largely concentrated on their autoattack, and in the case of the revenant your #2 skill.

Herald turns the revenant into a rather passive class as your role is to fart out boon for the group, so you just turn on passives until it’s time to switch to Jalis or Shiro to recharge your energy until Glint is back.

The battlemage is obviously the dagger elementalist or mesmer, or even power reaper. Power reaper isn’t that rotationally engaging either.

So if you want some more engaging rotation you’ll probably go for mesmer or ele.

However, if you truly want an entertaining, rotationally complex class, engineer is your best bet.

Sword on rev doesnt seem like a boring playstyle to me, also just because ele goes into melee range does not mean anything like a battlemage, a battlemage usually has martial and magical ability. And im sorry if that sounded rude but it baffles me when people think ele is a type of battlemage, maybe with conjured weapons but they arent up to par right now.

And I take the forums like a grain of salt when it comes to what people consider bad or good, I only asked about the playstyle, every forum class is saying they are being over nerfed, and only one or two weapons are useful, what are the chances of that really happening? Come on now, I really dont think thats believable.

If its true what you said, that is kind of sad, but its the first time im hearing about this.

Mainly most people are complaining about nothing, i mean i play rev mpst of the time with staff which gives good dps and some sustain, its not the most damage you can do but its good and has more föavour because of the melee staff function.
Sword is for burst and the legend matching it is shiro.
Hammer is the ranged weapon of the class with good cc.
Staff has sustain and shield is support.
If you dont want condi dont take mace or axe and dont take mallyx as legend.
Herald has a dull gameplay when you take glint, i personally prefer shiro and ventari in pve but this is my humble opinion.

Thanks for the input everyone!