Guild Wars 2

I use to main power revenant but it feels so weak right now. Condi Revenant good as power revenant?

If you mean for SPvP Shiro/glint is currently the strongest spec.

If it’s PvE, I guess we’re a fancy boonbot, but we’re basically swapped roles with Thief. We’ll get actively nerfed in every patch like Necros and Rangers before HoT and devs will seal the deal by saying “Revs are in a good place,” condemning us to the same abyss that Guardian has been languishing in since launch.

On the PvP side, isn’t Mallyx/Glint still a decent combo for conditions? I used that build a few times with success before, but after the “balance” patch, I’m not sure about anything anymore.

wharone.1809:

If it’s PvE, I guess we’re a fancy boonbot, but we’re basically swapped roles with Thief. We’ll get actively nerfed in every patch like Necros and Rangers before HoT and devs will seal the deal by saying “Revs are in a good place,” condemning us to the same abyss that Guardian has been languishing in since launch.

On the PvP side, isn’t Mallyx/Glint still a decent combo for conditions? I used that build a few times with success before, but after the “balance” patch, I’m not sure about anything anymore.

Ignoring the design issues with Mallyx, you’ll flop to Necros and Thieves can wreck you pretty hard too on a Mallyx/X hybrid build.

Not at all, i was worried with all the nerfs but power rev is still amazing considering all the nerfs to ther classes.

I did 1.1million damage with 22 kills yesterday with shiro/glint rev, so its still very strong

Necros are still pretty much an auto lose tho

also still on power rev, with sword offhand
simple trick against necros …. switch to shiro by not using boons

wharone.1809:

If it’s PvE, I guess we’re a fancy boonbot, but we’re basically swapped roles with Thief. We’ll get actively nerfed in every patch like Necros and Rangers before HoT and devs will seal the deal by saying “Revs are in a good place,” condemning us to the same abyss that Guardian has been languishing in since launch.

On the PvP side, isn’t Mallyx/Glint still a decent combo for conditions? I used that build a few times with success before, but after the “balance” patch, I’m not sure about anything anymore.

Rofl I know that, cause I stopped maining guard for that exact reason hoping for something better with this one… but then I hear that Karl is also most likely in charge of Revs now cause Roy simply stopped caring.

People are so overly dramatic saying stuff like anet hates “insert profession name” or specific dev doesn’t care about my profession! This is just hysterics that doesn’t hold up under any sort of logic and is of zero use when i comes to bettering aspects of our profession that need work.

Imo what worked pre patch still works now ,obviously the issue is we have two legends who still need a lot of work. It doesn’t surprise me that they haven’t touched on them yet as something like Ventari really needs a serious work over .

To be fair they probably have had Karl in charge of balance for a long time now (which is why the game was such a joke for e-sports, stuck in a terrible meta for pve, and lolbalance for wvw) pre-HOT.

Then with HOT, for new classes and new specializations, they brought in others to help out design things and that’s how we got Roy and the other great devs (Chrono/Reaper guy).

However now that HOT has launched we’re probably back to good ol’ “nerf all the things” Karl while Roy and the others are on the next expansion (they mentioned working on another expansion already) team designing the new specializations and such or another project behind the scenes.

Iv’e been seeing less revs lately, I even stripped my rev’s ascended armor and slapped them on my berserker for later use.

Still has great burst and even if they nerfed our damage they also globally buffed it by making the bunker band-wagoners bipolar their way into the new “only viable” specs which lucky for us are nice and squish. Honestly this is the most fun I have had on any class in a long while. You have plenty of ways to deal damage and chain burst phases back to back… In fact with less auto attack damage it allows Rev players to read and get to know their 2-5 skills. Pretty cool now that you know what they do right? I mean who would have guessed that we had a built in evade and stuff? Honestly thought enchanted daggers and impossible odds were the only working buttons on the class outside of right click.

I wont speak for PvE and hell I wont speak for PvP cause I am trash…. Ill just speak for me when I say that I see very little difference in my ability to deal damage. If anything damage when it matters (assuming you watch for gaps and time your stuff instead of mashing face in keyboard) is ridiculously high. I saw a ranger start his rapid fire channel in my last game and jumped to him… He was downed before he finished. Enchanted daggers and precision strike in melee range make a nasty nasty round of burst and unrelenting assault still takes enough time to force double dodge if they aren’t down.

I don’t know if it’s useless… too soon to tell

Been testing for 2 days straight rev on pvp and it’s got considerable weak due to sword AA dmg not mitigating to PS (this skill doesn’t work properly).
And yesterday did Raid, Arah dungeon, Fractals some wvw bosses and auric basin events and i can tell you rev AA nerf straight sucks! This nerf was uncalled for

Sword auto nerfed way too hard, sword 2 is bugged, shield was nerfed way too hard shield 4 is bugged…. sword two doenst hit downed and hits walls over players. Shield 5 was nerfed by 37% and shield 4 heasl 200-300 less than the tooltip states.
We dont have access to stability bar being forced into a legend and have access to one stack every 5 seconds on dodge.
The recent patch was too overkill.

No rev is not useless, don’t listen to all the people complaining. Power rev still works wonders and if you put yourself in the right position youll do great. Viper rev is also still very strong, just don’t 1v1 a necro.

Hooglese.4860:

No rev is not useless, don’t listen to all the people complaining. Power rev still works wonders and if you put yourself in the right position youll do great. Viper rev is also still very strong, just don’t 1v1 a necro.

Exactly this. Positioning and picking the right time to engage is something that exists in every game out yet largely due to bunker meta was never stressed here. You can play any class glass and be extremely effective in the game assuming you change your brain from 1v1 5 minute duels to roaming and raining hell on people who still think that dueling 1v1 and 1v2 is why they signed up.

No, the reveal can enable stealth rezzers to be targetted while sword 5 can pull off said rezzers so there’s good skill sync at least right there. Staff 5 can also potentially interrupt a group while staff 3 gives a good block against attacks like bristleback, unload, and rapid fire and jade winds is amazing if you get the timing down. Then you have a big group interrupt with the Glint elite that baits dodges and knocksback rezzers and even downed players on a point quite nicely.

Rev is not useless. They are still very good at pretty much everything the game has to offer. You won’t hear people say lets take X class over Rev, unless the team already has multiple revs.

A few nerfs and everybody runs for the hills and cries revenants are useless. Great GW2 community.