Long story short, I came back from almost a 1.5 year break. When I left Rev just came out and power shiro was meta.
I have 7/9 classes in full ascended, with the goal of getting them all optimized with a decent build.
I only have engineer and rev left and have enough stockpiled mats to make a set of ascended for rev (holding off on the engineer because of the leather market right now).
For the last few days, I’ve been doing experimentation with metabattle builds and known good configs for Rev to see what the best weapon set and ascended armor stat combination would be.
I came to realize, power shiro is ALL this class has and right now its mediocre at best. Everything else is absolutely terrible.
People have gone over the reasons for Rev being bad, but from first hand experience -it’s as bad as people say.
Some noteworthy experiences:
1.) Ventari is an absolutely joke. On kylo, the tablet still got stuck under the clocktower. You have zero self sustain and people just focus you down. The healing is not even close to enough to keep people alive through thief burst and there is not enough condition removal for both yourself and your team. I’ve regularly died from the standard 20 necro bleeder and burn guardian. For the tablet burst heal, its so bad that I’ve actually died in the the charge up for the heal.
2.) Self heals are generally pretty pathetic, forcing you to cycle through BOTH legends to burn all your heals to survive a burst. This leaves you in a precarious position of likely being in a legend you don’t want to be for the situation. It also takes way longer because you have to heal > switch > heal instead of relying on a single skill like other classes.
3.) So much stuff to manage. Legends, CD’s on both bars, energy, weapon swap, CD on skills. Playing Rev is hyper overcomplicated and I feel like I’m juggling 10 glass balls. Even ele is easier.
4.) Traits suck. They just do. Half of the traits are keyed towards a specific legend, like all the stuff on Ventari just affecting the tablet. What if I wanted to use these bonuses with another legend and not Ventari? No, if you take Salvation you HAVE to take Ventari. If you take Mallyx you HAVE to take corruption because its the ONLY condition trait line. The traits don’t mesh well universally.
5.) Dovetailing from #4 there is no customization. Traits are tied to specific legends and legends are tied to specific weapons and setups. When you need something from a specific legend or weapon set, you switch your whole bar in combat just to get to that one skill and that gets you killed or ruins your playing flow.
An example being overloaded with conditions and having to switch to Mallyx for the resistance. Well now my tablet is gone and my whole team just dies from damage overload that I was trying to prevent.
Or switching to staff for the condition clears and having no damage for 10 seconds.
Everything feels so rigid and when your in a situation where your mismatched (e.g. having a hammer out while in Mallyx, having the Ventari when you really need a damage legend but only swapped because you needed a heal) you just get crushed.
There’s no way to reach that ONE skill that you need without messing everything else up.
I’m not going into how to fix Rev. It’s just so bad and so beat like a dead horse to do so.
Just PLEASE DO SOMETHING. Fix something. Overpower something. Change a way certain skills work. Unbind some skills from legends. Add a new weapon. Something drastic needs to be done because REV NEEDS HELP.
I’ve gotten to the point where I can’t even forge an ascended set for this class even through I have all the resources because its just too broken to invest anything in.
And if you really want to spice things up you can go ventari/mallyx and have a good fun with the tablet.