Guild Wars 2

So there’s a question – how? I cant do anything using staff/swordshield against teams with hard condi pressure/guardians. It’s unreal to survive more than 4 sec, as usual in the opposite team 2-3 guardians, so all tries to retake= death in traps. It’s extremely hard if there’s pair of condi warriors, rev has poor condiclear, or I dont’t know smth. I can win guardian or warrior 1v1 (at my rating of course), but cant 1vs2. Tried hammer/staff build, and this is easier to play, I suffer from thiefs, ofc it could be easier with s/shield istead of staff, but it’s better to hold the distance. I’m doing 700k-1kk dmg, just spamming hammer bolt, standing near the tree. Is this a final strategy for rav playing? What role has revenant?

First off, I play Staff/Sword-Sword. That’s my viewpoint.

To live long, you need to dodge the condi bombs and kite when you have like 4+ condis on you. As for DH traps, they mostly use Test of Faith, which you can dodge out of, or Procession of Blades, which you can walk out of with minimal damage. Don’t freak out when you see all the traps, that’ll help you live much longer. Revenant’s role is party buffing and nuking the team’s backline. Just use Glint to buff, and Shiro to mostly fight. Use Staff #5 a lot. It drops a stupidly high amount of burst as long as you aim it right, and it shreds up to 8 stacks of stability, as well as giving an evade. For thieves, you want to block or dodge Backstab (start blocking ~1-2 seconds after they enter stealth). Also, if CC is a recurring problem for you, I’d recommend dropping the meta Invocation for Retribution and changing Elder’s Force to Enhanced Bulwark, the difference in survivability is night and day and feels better when you’re just getting into rev.

Hope this helps

ok,i’ll try) but what advantages has sw/sw over sw/sh?
I had thought about taking retri instead of invo, but I like that stun break.

Aihao.5824:

ok,i’ll try) but what advantages has sw/sw over sw/sh?
I had thought about taking retri instead of invo, but I like that stun break.

I also use sw/sw… I’d say the biggest pro in my eyes is that your sword block costs less, has a shorter cooldown, AND YOU CAN MOVE while doing it. Granted it doesn’t last as long and doesn’t heal you… But give and take. Plus with sword you also gain access to immobilize and the sword 5 pull is handy to get people out of position/open a burst.

Aihao.5824:

ok,i’ll try) but what advantages has sw/sw over sw/sh?
I had thought about taking retri instead of invo, but I like that stun break.

Yeah, the stunbreak is amazing, but swapping to Shiro and hitting Phase Traversal is still a pretty consistent stunbreaker.

Glad to have helped

Aihao.5824:

ok,i’ll try) but what advantages has sw/sw over sw/sh?
I had thought about taking retri instead of invo, but I like that stun break.

Remember that as retri you gonna have pretty good stability uptime, so you gonna be less stunned overall.
Retri is easier to play. If you’re having a hard time, might be good go retri until you get used to revenant. Is much easier to play against DH and thieves, specifically. But invo is better overall, so I suggest for you to go back to it once you’re feeling comfortable.