The Herald is the first and only Profession that can reach +100% Boon Duration without Buff Food, hurray!
I know it is suboptimal but it is possible and that is what counts.
Giver’s Armor= 6%
Platinum Dubloons on Trinkets/Back Item = 24%
Superior Rune of Water = 20%
Facet of Nature= 50%
This way, you can still freely choose the Stats of your Trinkets/Back Item and on your Weapons/Sigils.
Maybe I make a just for fun Boon Duration Revenant Build with HoT. So what do you think? Might it work in some places or would it be totally useless everywhere?
Well since the revenant doesn’t have many boon giving skills….
…and in parties your allies will try to keep your boons up most of the time…
…no.
Right now without Glint, Revenant gives out the following Boons to others: Regeneration, Stability, Resistance, Swiftness (Blast the Road), Retaliation (Blast Ventari Bubble), Might (Blast Mace Firefield).
Facet of Nature will give all Boons from the other Facets to the Party aswell which include Swiftness and Protection.
Question to Roy: When giving out the other Boons, will the Active from FoN use the passive +50% for those Boons or will they go out with +0%?
Well since the revenant doesn’t have many boon giving skills….
…and in parties your allies will try to keep your boons up most of the time…
…no.
Right now without Glint, Revenant gives out the following Boons to others: Regeneration, Stability, Resistance, Swiftness (Blast the Road), Retaliation (Blast Ventari Bubble), Might (Blast Mace Firefield).
Facet of Nature will give all Boons from the other Facets to the Party aswell which include Swiftness and Protection.
Question to Roy: When giving out the other Boons, will the Active from FoN use the passive +50% for those Boons or will they go out with +0%?
I’m sure we will be able to test that in ~2-4 weeks
Well since the revenant doesn’t have many boon giving skills….
…and in parties your allies will try to keep your boons up most of the time…
…no.
Right now without Glint, Revenant gives out the following Boons to others: Regeneration, Stability, Resistance, Swiftness (Blast the Road), Retaliation (Blast Ventari Bubble), Might (Blast Mace Firefield).
Facet of Nature will give all Boons from the other Facets to the Party aswell which include Swiftness and Protection.
Question to Roy: When giving out the other Boons, will the Active from FoN use the passive +50% for those Boons or will they go out with +0%?
I’m sure we will be able to test that in ~2-4 weeks
No we will be not, unless we get a fresh copy of our Bank with the next BWE. Because I had no Boon Duration Stuff in my Bank and even if I now put some in, there is no guarantee that we get a fresh copy of our Bank, since the Chars stay until the end of BWE#2.
So I hope you all have still enough Stuff in the Beta Bank for your Herald and the other Elite Specs we might be able to Test in BWE#2 :-)
The Herald is the first and only Profession that can reach +100% Boon Duration without Buff Food, hurray!
I know it is suboptimal but it is possible and that is what counts.
Giver’s Armor= 6%
Platinum Dubloons on Trinkets/Back Item = 24%
Superior Rune of Water = 20%
Facet of Nature= 50%
This way, you can still freely choose the Stats of your Trinkets/Back Item and on your Weapons/Sigils.
Maybe I make a just for fun Boon Duration Revenant Build with HoT. So what do you think? Might it work in some places or would it be totally useless everywhere?
Technically, you’re wrong. Revenant is not the first class to reach 100% boon duration. Guardians were able to do it before the Boon Duration rune nerf when they reworked runes several patches ago.
Anyways, you end up actually nerfing yourself rather badly doing that by losing out on stats.
The Herald is the first and only Profession that can reach +100% Boon Duration without Buff Food, hurray!
I know it is suboptimal but it is possible and that is what counts.
Giver’s Armor= 6%
Platinum Dubloons on Trinkets/Back Item = 24%
Superior Rune of Water = 20%
Facet of Nature= 50%
This way, you can still freely choose the Stats of your Trinkets/Back Item and on your Weapons/Sigils.
Maybe I make a just for fun Boon Duration Revenant Build with HoT. So what do you think? Might it work in some places or would it be totally useless everywhere?
Technically, you’re wrong. Revenant is not the first class to reach 100% boon duration. Guardians were able to do it before the Boon Duration rune nerf when they reworked runes several patches ago.
Anyways, you end up actually nerfing yourself rather badly doing that by losing out on stats.
The only Stats you lose are your Armor and the Jewels of your Accessories, but if you focus your build on Support, Toughness and Healing Power aren’t the worst Stats for that. The Accessories, Weapons, Sigils and technically the Runes are still free to choose.
If you only care for Fury for example, you can still take Rune of Rage for the +30% Fury Duration to top that and leave the rest at 80%. Same goes for every other Rune that gives a certain Boon somewhere between +20% to +30%.
The Herald is the first and only Profession that can reach +100% Boon Duration without Buff Food, hurray!
I know it is suboptimal but it is possible and that is what counts.
Giver’s Armor= 6%
Platinum Dubloons on Trinkets/Back Item = 24%
Superior Rune of Water = 20%
Facet of Nature= 50%
This way, you can still freely choose the Stats of your Trinkets/Back Item and on your Weapons/Sigils.
Maybe I make a just for fun Boon Duration Revenant Build with HoT. So what do you think? Might it work in some places or would it be totally useless everywhere?
Technically, you’re wrong. Revenant is not the first class to reach 100% boon duration. Guardians were able to do it before the Boon Duration rune nerf when they reworked runes several patches ago.
Anyways, you end up actually nerfing yourself rather badly doing that by losing out on stats.
The only Stats you lose are your Armor and the Jewels of your Accessories, but if you focus your build on Support, Toughness and Healing Power aren’t the worst Stats for that. The Accessories, Weapons, Sigils and technically the Runes are still free to choose.
If you only care for Fury for example, you can still take Rune of Rage for the +30% Fury Duration to top that and leave the rest at 80%. Same goes for every other Rune that gives a certain Boon somewhere between +20% to +30%.
But what build would this be for? WvW Zerg support? That’s the only use I can see out of such a build.
I finished a 100% boon duration build on my ele right before the day when they nerfed such builds to be impossible. I’ve never been more salty in my life
I finished a 100% boon duration build on my ele right before the day when they nerfed such builds to be impossible. I’ve never been more salty in my life
Haha, i can totally understand that. I for one was always on the way to find the 100% Condition Duration Build, luckily it is much easier with Conditions than with Boons. For my Revenant I will settle with 100% Torment and 75% Poison, even though i have to cheat with Food when i want to play Fractals because there is no Ascendend Giver’s Weapon Stat.
I finished a 100% boon duration build on my ele right before the day when they nerfed such builds to be impossible. I’ve never been more salty in my life
Haha, i can totally understand that. I for one was always on the way to find the 100% Condition Duration Build, luckily it is much easier with Conditions than with Boons. For my Revenant I will settle with 100% Torment and 75% Poison, even though i have to cheat with Food when i want to play Fractals because there is no Ascendend Giver’s Weapon Stat.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vlAQNAS5nnXNeNSqJvJRBlLlsfyjS4QZSJYrsrkFNFhd862tBWEJdzoSA-TRCBABRcEAqW5XDPAgn1MM9+j6PAcBA04gAknOA1UCKIgFB-e you do not need giver’s weapons for 100% torment duration, just get the veggie pizza foods. Funny I just finished tinkering with such a build on the editor and had it ready to go. I’ve wanted to try this ever since I heard Revenants were getting torment on their autoattacks
Edit: apparently the condi stuff is in the off weapon set for some reason. I use perception as that can boost both condi and direct damage for the hammer in case I need to swap, but you could use corruption stacking as well. Earth and geomancy mean you also have access to bleeds which revenant lacks, and swapping legends will triger the geomancy sigil which is a very interesting mechanic.
I finished a 100% boon duration build on my ele right before the day when they nerfed such builds to be impossible. I’ve never been more salty in my life
Haha, i can totally understand that. I for one was always on the way to find the 100% Condition Duration Build, luckily it is much easier with Conditions than with Boons. For my Revenant I will settle with 100% Torment and 75% Poison, even though i have to cheat with Food when i want to play Fractals because there is no Ascendend Giver’s Weapon Stat.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vlAQNAS5nnXNeNSqJvJRBlLlsfyjS4QZSJYrsrkFNFhd862tBWEJdzoSA-TRCBABRcEAqW5XDPAgn1MM9+j6PAcBA04gAknOA1UCKIgFB-e you do not need giver’s weapons for 100% torment duration, just get the veggie pizza foods. Funny I just finished tinkering with such a build on the editor and had it ready to go. I’ve wanted to try this ever since I heard Revenants were getting torment on their autoattacks
Edit: apparently the condi stuff is in the off weapon set for some reason. I use perception as that can boost both condi and direct damage for the hammer in case I need to swap, but you could use corruption stacking as well. Earth and geomancy mean you also have access to bleeds which revenant lacks, and swapping legends will triger the geomancy sigil which is a very interesting mechanic.
I know about the Pizza, that’s why I wrote that i have to cheat with Food in Fractals, there is no other way to reach 100% Torment in higher Fractals unless I go with exotic weapons. :-)
And i can not use Earth and Geo, because I use Torment and the 5% Condi Duration to get my 100% without Food. 45 from Runes, 33 from Trait, 20 from Giver’s Weapon 5 from Sigil.
