Guild Wars 2

Morning people! 6 am here. Im here to ask you advice about this class :/ I just need help. The character for me feels like a wet napkin, has nice damage and mobility, but as soon as i go in a tf i become a Training dummy locked for hours by immovilizes and bursted by everything. I pass so much time dead or outnumbered that when i get 1v1 o dunno what to do. Help me guys :/ i need an in depth guide and sincerelly metabattle its not helping. Also, is condi viable now?

As far as I know condi isn’t really viable at the moment.

So I’m gonna assume that you’re using the metabattle build (http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Herald_-_Power_Shiro) here.. So this build is pretty kitten strong in 1v1’s and when played to its best will really only lose to good druids and cancer-mesmers. Or just getting outnumbered in general (but that’s a PvP thing not a revenant thing.)

But anyway, the problem I notice a lot when people play rev is that they don’t switch weapons. Staff has a 2 second block on a 12 second cooldown that blinds nearby targets(Staff 3). Surge of the mists (Staff 5) has an evade on it and if you happen to be looking in the perfect direction will get any squishy build absolutely annihilated.

Please just switch to staff when you feel you need a quick burst or some block really fast.

Now to legend swapping. This might seem a little counter-intuitive but you should; if you are inexperienced with revenant play, be going for quantity over quality of legend swaps. Swapping breaks stun and removes a condition, but most importantly it RESETS ALL OF YOUR ENERGY. If you run out of energy on Shiro, he’s kinda useless, you can switch to Glint and you’ll immediately be at 50 energy.

Memorize the skills if you haven’t and now for some random tips…

1) Your auto is seriously scary to any stationary target, if you have no energy and can’t switch, might as well spam the auto, it kinda is a death strike to squishy people.

2) This one I think is the most important for good rev play so read carefully… Glint has NO ABSOLUTE ENERGY COSTS. Chaotic release (Glint Elite) has no energy cost, none of the facets do, everything on glint has upkeep, nothing costs anything. On Shiro your skills cost energy, like phase traversal, or the evasive dodge, but on glint everything is upkeep. So what does that mean? You keep as many facets up as you can. Walking around from point to point? Might as well stack everything, your just gonna switch to shiro when you run out. Keep protection up as much as you can, 33% damage is a lot.

3) If something is too dangerous to fight in melee range, like the immediate aids that the warrior has, kite it out with precision strike (sword 2). Use your dodge to bait out head-but or if some other class bait out they’re burst. Rev is the master of not taking damage while dealing it (looking at you Unrelenting Assault)

4) Now for the most obvious counter to the revenant, the conditions. This is where I’m gonna give some strategic advice instead of tactical and say just try to avoid them. But sometimes I know you just can’t. So… uhh… Try to kill them quick? That’s really all I got, conditions will kill the build, so if you can’t win the fight against some stupid condi mes, get over it and go to the next point. However, there is one other way to fight conditions… this is where I should mention that I don’t play the exact thing on metabattle (and really you shouldn’t either). Change the two sigils of staff to Purity and Generosity. Boom. You’re now condi resistant, not immune though.

5) Abuse phase traversal. Seriously, it’s like you’re a thief.

6) Shiro’s Impossible Odds (the one that grants pulsing quickness) make you auto attack kill downed players faster than one person can resurrect. Might also wanna mention that Impossible Odds are meant for your auto attacks, not anything else.

7) Since I don’t use the build I might as well tell you what else I change, for the rune I run Scholar because it give me power and ferocity, the 10% damage above 90% health is negligible but the ferocity isn’t. If you think you’re decent at rev, run that instead. If you’re practicing, try running rune of rage.

Okay, so please remember tip 2 and you should be good to go. Also just remember any good condi build will have your kitten , so know when to chicken out of a fight.

Hey I played both condi rev and power rev. While it’s true that Power is stronger, I feel that Drumanas explained some things rather poorly.

First off with Glint or Dragon Stance…you rarely want to go past 4 upkeep with Glint, because reaching 0 energy in Dragon Stance means that you can’t cast your utilities…they are free as long as you have the energy to maintain the upkeep on them….so don’t go crazy keeping all facets activated….mist energy goes so fast you will rarerly see it pass by you.

Also when facing condi users….pray that shield 5 lasts long enough to block the damage from all the condi you got. Invocation is crucial here because if the enemy manages to bait out your stun breaker, then the ability to break stuns by swaping legends becomes Godsend. In theory you could also use staff 4 to get rid of 2 condis and heal but in practice….you need to be able to survive the cast time of staff 4.

Don’t abuse Phase Travel…you will barely have any energy left to fight. Abuse Imposible Odds instead if you need to abuse a skill for dps, don’t forget to pop up the daggers though. Use Phase Travel only to finish off targets with low hp who are trying to make a run for it.

That’s it for the meta power bs for Rev,now lets go to the fun stuff – condi Rev. Coruption is a mess of a skill line in my opinion as it has cluttered within it traits aimed at applying condi,cleaning condi and boon stealing (lots of stuff see…it’s like a salad in here,very messy).

My advice,use coruption traitline to make yourself as resistant as possible vs condi users(demonic defiance,spontaneous destruction) and get Pulsating Pestilence in order to pair it up with Dragon Stance and Invocation. Dragon Stance is arguably the best stance in the game for Revenant so it’s very hard to go wrong with it….just make sure your energy doesn’t hit 0 or else you lose access to your utilities (you can’t activate the spell past the facet if your energy is at 0).

Alternatevly if you want to play glass cannon condi….ditch the Spontaneous Destruction for Frigid Precision and put Sigils of Inteligence on mace and sigil of generosity on sword. Inteligence is so that you can crit with mace 2 and hope to apply burn,chill and torment on a target and generosity on sword is because the rifts made by rift slash can hit up to 12 targets so there is chance to get rid of at least 3 condis from you and apply chill and torment as well.

Condi rev for me is an odd ball as it seems mostly designed to combat condi builds in pvp rather than to condi down tanky opponents like bunker build users.

Don’t abuse PT like the other guy said, use it for depend on situations, the abusing thing was true till they nerf it.

I dont stream much but you can watch my vod if you wanna see mechanics and how it should be done. This is me casually 1v2 on diviner amulet

http://www.twitch.tv/xkratosz/v/80929388