Guild Wars 2

Since the Rev nerf I’ve been tinkering with builds for sPvP. I found a malyx/herald build that works pretty well for solo queue sPvP.. It’s like the old build power build but it’s much more defensive. It’s condi immune vs warrior and condi shatter mes.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vlAQNAsemnfN2gSuJvQRHlboskyPU4S5IKor8EllTlxe93nPNgCagdpomC-TJBGABpv/QCnCAAeCA7XGAA

Any tips or feedback is welcome.

I have made some reasonable attempts to play power Rev in sPvP with Mallyx/Corruption for a while but I haven’t been successful yet. So I wish you luck.

I have generally found these few problems:
-sustain is good, but not good enough to make up for the low damage
-damage goes down too far when under condi pressure since most energy is used for pain absorption at this time

I like your use of blood/leeching sigils, this will help with sustain. I have not tried Mallyx/Glint, instead I used Mallyx/Shiro. With Glint instead, you’ll probably have better damage and sustain, but you’ll also be really slow so you might get kited a lot.

I don’t like Maniacal Persistence when combined with Roiling Mists. Your crit chance will be 95% when you have fury, which will probably be most of the time with this build. So Maniacal Persistence will be almost useless. I would recommend one of two options:

a) swap Maniacal Persistence for Pulsating Pestilence
b) Swap Invocation for Devastation. With such low crit damage, the benefits of high crit are not that great on this build. Devastation will add some damage and decent sustain through Focused Siphoning and Assassin’s Annihilation. You will be more vulnerable to CCs though.

Invocation, Herald, and Devastation feel like such mandatory traitlines….mostly because Ventari and Mallyx are very niche garbage that only work with a very specific gearset (read: healing power or condi) while the other traitlines have far more universal traits.

Retribution would be good if they took the retal out and instead put aegis or more prot/resistance on it.

The taunt trait is also pretty bad since it only works in PvE for the duration increase and in PvE most mobs are immune to taunt thanks to breakbar…..

fluidmonolith.3584:

With Glint instead, you’ll probably have better damage and sustain, but you’ll also be really slow so you might get kited a lot.

New player so excuse me for dumb question… I thought Glint has Facet of Elements?

Oh yeah it uses Pulsating Persistence that was an error. I think you can ramp up a damage spike with Elders Force, Bolstered Anguish and Facet of Nature/ One with Nature. Also swapping to staff triggers Signet of leaching so you get 950 or so more damage on Surge of The Mists. The biggest fault of the build is the lack of stability perhaps.

Rudedawg.1876:

fluidmonolith.3584:

With Glint instead, you’ll probably have better damage and sustain, but you’ll also be really slow so you might get kited a lot.

New player so excuse me for dumb question… I thought Glint has Facet of Elements?

I was referring to in-combat mobility. The swiftness will help in moving between points but, in my opinion, it is not sufficient to help prevent the Rev from being kited or to escape from another player.

Unyielding Anguish is a decent mobility skill, it has freezing when it hits to help chase down kiters. It’s not too bad for moving between points and escaping.

charchar.2149:

Unyielding Anguish is a decent mobility skill, it has freezing when it hits to help chase down kiters. It’s not too bad for moving between points and escaping.

Unyielding Anguish is a terrible skill imo; and is one more reason that the Rev feels “clunky” to me as a class.

I like fluid movement, intuitive.

Warriors get a fantastic leap in sword 2 skill called “Savage Leap”

so much better for mobility.