Guild Wars 2

I want to hear some tips and trick from veteran revenant players on how to survive in PvE. I have some difficulties to survive when enemy is focusing me. First let me tell you a little bit of my background:

I have been playing with revenant about 3 weeks and I only miss elite skill on herald specialization. I am running full exotic berserker gear with scholar runes. I am using sword/axe and either hammer or staff depending do I need cc or not. I run devastation, invocation and herald and usually run Glint/Jalis.

So for example today I played with my friend duo Cathedral of Flame story mode. I manage to keep myself alive against normal mob even when there is a lot of them but I will die (not right away but eventually, usually when my both heals are on cooldown) when boss or champion creature is focusing me. Any advice on that?

You’re really gonna have to get good at managing your defensive options with Berserker’s.

Get that Facet of Chaos, though. Aside from contributing to breakbars from its knockback, it can give you some damage mitigation from protection pulses when your blocks are on CD and there aren’t big attacks being tossed out to warrant an evade/Facet of Light. Speaking of Protection, you can also get more of it with One With Nature/Shield 4, though only for a few seconds.

Consider Shield (or OH Sword) for harder encounters. With Staff, you’ll have always access to a blocking skill regardless of weapon set to guard against big hits that you can’t otherwise evade/nullify.

Manage your evades well. You’ll still need to avoid dangerous stuff when you can’t guard. If your Stamina runs low, use Shiro’s Phase Retreat to evade and get some stamina back or UA (if you can time it).

Lastly, consider more defensive trinkets (Marauder, Knight, whatever) to pad your survivability a bit. It could make a difference between staying alive long enough to use your defensive options/heal and getting downed.

tl;dr: Manage your defensive skills as best as you can for an encounter and/or get some trinkets to survive a bit better.

Thank you for your response. I will try sword/shield and staff and see how it goes. I will still try with full berserker gear.

+1 On the Facet of Chaos. Having Perma protection is a huge damage mitigation. That, and mixed in with the damage reduction from Vengeful Hammers you got about 40% damage reduction + healing which scales very very well when fighting mobs.

I am lost when it comes to the revenant and the correct spec for it. Im level 60 and working my way up, and would love some great suggestions on how to make it beneficial for pve. Any suggestions would be very beneficial.

LilZander.1964:

I am lost when it comes to the revenant and the correct spec for it. Im level 60 and working my way up, and would love some great suggestions on how to make it beneficial for pve. Any suggestions would be very beneficial.

For the most part, just keep in mind that each traitline, save for Retribution/Invocation, are really meant to be used with their corresponding legend and aren’t very effective without it.

If its open world, at lower levels, you can use Shiro+Jalis. You dont have to really worry about a specific gear type till 80 and can run with whatever rares/low-end exotics you acquire through Personal story/World Bosses/WvW and what have you.

Traitslines can be Devastation, Retribution, and Invocation
Use Shiro to get around and quickly kill stuff and fall back on Jalis if you need damage mitigation from Vengeful Hammers, particularly against multiple enemies. You can also blast Jalis’ light roads with Staff 4/Hammer 5 for swiftness, I guess.

Use Sword+Axe (most encounters wont warrant an OH Sword for another blocking skill at your level, and the gap closer is nice damage-wise) + Hammer for ranging things. Keep a Staff handy for champions with breakbars.