Guild Wars 2

So I’m trying to work out a good tanky build for my Revenant but havent found much good advice since people are still working on their own builds. My main question is to do with gearing, but I would love to see some advice on builds.

I’m currently running soldiers gear with Superior Runes of the Earth to increase my protection uptime.

What do you do for a build like this and how is it working out for you?

You can abuse ventari tablet if you really want protection uptime, just get Bolster Fortifications which grants protection to nearby allies (including you) when using a healing skill. With the 2 seconds cooldown on Ventari’s Will and a bit of a % boon or protection duration you can get protection always on if you spam it. I’m actually running a support healer herald that’s currently like this:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vlAQNAW8unnN2gSyJvQRRlbospyPUYT5IKIs8ElFNFqdABoBrLJKVxugH8hA-TxhEABzo+jQK/IVJIAm/GXjgc7PQiuAA-e

I basically just auto attack with it and move the tablet around giving buffs and healing people or if it’s a condi heavy fight like wyvern and the like I just use Protective Solace to make a light combo field because the staff’s 1 final hit is a whirl finisher, ofc my damage isn’t that great but I contribute with tanking, healing and buffing might/fury to the dps zerkers and I like playing support characters so this is pretty fun to me

That’s a really interesting build, I would not have considered pairing Glint and Ventari for tanking (I am doing Jalis/Glint for that damage reduction).

If you wanted to be much more tanky, why not change that devastation trait line to Retribution? You’d get free 50% damage reduction and some extra boons for when you are below 50% health

UnbentMars.9126:

So I’m trying to work out a good tanky build for my Revenant but havent found much good advice since people are still working on their own builds. My main question is to do with gearing, but I would love to see some advice on builds.

I’m currently running soldiers gear with Superior Runes of the Earth to increase my protection uptime.

What do you do for a build like this and how is it working out for you?

I actually had a guild mate suggest this, so we’ll be trying it out when we go in on Friday night. Here’s the build he linked:

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?vlAQNAsemn3gWNSuQrJRboBlsP0fS4I6QJ4EdrkFalh9layRNgDWwO6qzG-ThSBwAUeAA7U/5qygIKBtt/QXleo0GgXHACTQAOBAECQ2WA-e

One note is that he said that the earth runes don’t seem to affect the prot duration from shield.

@Dahkeus

That’s very similar to my build except I’m using Sword/Sword and Sword/Shield (gotta love all those blocks) and I’ve got vitality stacked as well as toughness. I went into my guild arena and asked people to come beat on me and the only thing I struggled with was dealing with conditions since the only person to reliably kill me was a Berserker Warrior with tons of condi damage.

Other than that, my protection uptime is stellar and I have access to a wide variety of heals. Not as much as Auei’s build but between the constant regen of Glint, infuse light, shield skills, and Jalis, it was decent. Since I’m building for raid tanking and we have a healing druid I think it may be a good midway point?

On another note, when I wasn’t wearing any gear I took approximately 4-6k damage from autoattacks by a zerker Daredevil whaling on me. When I had all my armor on I was taking 1k crits, and when I popped protection and Rite of the Great Dwarf I was getting crit for 300 or less. Currently, my build is:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vlAQRAse8sn3gWNSuQrJRboBlsP0fS4I6QJ4EdrkFalhNmayRNgBWwO6p3G-TxCBwA5U/RryD3aEQrEUpSsFmYut/AgHAQLtA51Fs5EAQKgvmaB-e

@UnbentMars

The reason I went Devastation instead of retribution is because I need it as a damage boost for solo play or I can’t really kill anything, I’d love to use retribution or even invocation to actually have stunbreak just like I’d love to use jalis instead of glint but not having a speed boost and the casting time on jalis’ heal is just too much for me :/

Ah okay, I should have specified that I’m going for raid tanking rather than roaming…sorry!