Power Revenant sPvP...I give up!
mind showing us some footage of your gameplay? it’ll help us to analyze the situation better & more constructive advice can be given from there.
Shabulu
Ferocious Arsenal of Resolve [FEAR]
Ferocious Arsenal of Resolve [FEAR]
(edited by Vena.4276)
Metabattle is kinda outdated.
Try power-hammer-revenant with glint/shiro.
Walking’s good, fighting’s better, fcking’s best
Try power-hammer-revenant with glint/shiro.
That’s amazing if your main objective is to get to bronze 1 asap. hammer is the worst rev weapon in PvP.
Back to OP, obviously you can’t just stand there and autoattack them in melee any time. You have to sort of play like a thief, wait for an opening when you can go in and do the quickness autoattack stuff.
Use the CCs to create openings when you can cleave. All it takes is 2-3 seconds and rev can cause some serious damage. It’s all about patience and good awareness.
Meta battle is good. Switch staff to hammer of you under t3 gold. It eats people alive in the lower ranks. Not so much the higher you go.
And yes power rev is hard to play
(edited by Milan.9035)
If at any time in the match you find yourself saying, “Wow, I wish I could swap to hammer and stand up here on this ledge auto attacking,” you are not playing your power rev to the extent of its abilities. Power revs that find success are the ones that are always roaming the map, using their mobility to decap points and jumping into skirmishes as +1’s with quick cc’s/bursts.
That’s why staff is still listed in the power rev’s kit, despite it’s damage potential being horrible after the sotm nerf. Joining a fight with a fast Phase Traversal + SotM as a +1 is still pretty much guaranteed to end the fight instantly.
If you absolutely can’t stand staff anymore, axe is actually a pretty versatile choice for power now that they added slow to it… Just be careful using it as a gap closure as you proc any traps/fields that it makes you teleport across.
How is this build in the meta tier and how are other people using it with success? I am so at a loss.
Power Rev only works if you’re able to read the mid of the enemy player and to use evade/block/blind to neuter the important attacks and to play (very) patiently.
Against players as smart/skilled as you is extremely hard to win a fight, specially in roaming, where enemies aren’t constricted to try to defend or break a control point, and where most of the other classes have better tools to pressure you at range and/or disengage or reset the skirmish.
In PvP is a bit better because control points matter, but anyway the main goal of this build in PvP is to roam and being a +1 (a role in which is worse than the current Thief builds). You have no balance access, no stealth, almost no condition cleanses and your skills have both cooldowns and high energy cost, so no one is expecting you to being able to beat similar skilled players using other classes. Is a high risk – low reward clas which also happens to be hard to use. Deal with it.
How is this build in the meta tier and how are other people using it with success? I am so at a loss.
Power Rev only works if you’re able to read the mid of the enemy player and to use evade/block/blind to neuter the important attacks and to play (very) patiently.
Against players as smart/skilled as you is extremely hard to win a fight, specially in roaming, where enemies aren’t constricted to try to defend or break a control point, and where most of the other classes have better tools to pressure you at range and/or disengage or reset the skirmish.
In PvP is a bit better because control points matter, but anyway the main goal of this build in PvP is to roam and being a +1 (a role in which is worse than the current Thief builds). You have no balance access, no stealth, almost no condition cleanses and your skills have both cooldowns and high energy cost, so no one is expecting you to being able to beat similar skilled players using other classes. Is a high risk – low reward clas which also happens to be hard to use. Deal with it.
The above. Its real value comes down to boons and AOE CC. It deals mediocre damage, cannot fight conditions (in a condition meta) and its not that survivable. TBH, its good for groups but really bad solo.
And do not use hammer, Dwarf stance or retribution line. Complete waste in sPvP.
How is this build in the meta tier and how are other people using it with success? I am so at a loss.
Power Rev only works if you’re able to read the mid of the enemy player and to use evade/block/blind to neuter the important attacks and to play (very) patiently.
Against players as smart/skilled as you is extremely hard to win a fight, specially in roaming, where enemies aren’t constricted to try to defend or break a control point, and where most of the other classes have better tools to pressure you at range and/or disengage or reset the skirmish.
In PvP is a bit better because control points matter, but anyway the main goal of this build in PvP is to roam and being a +1 (a role in which is worse than the current Thief builds). You have no balance access, no stealth, almost no condition cleanses and your skills have both cooldowns and high energy cost, so no one is expecting you to being able to beat similar skilled players using other classes. Is a high risk – low reward clas which also happens to be hard to use. Deal with it.
The above. Its real value comes down to boons and AOE CC. It deals mediocre damage, cannot fight conditions (in a condition meta) and its not that survivable. TBH, its good for groups but really bad solo.
And do not use hammer, Dwarf stance or retribution line. Complete waste in sPvP.
Super fast/punishing cleave to help with power rez teams, too.
Try power-hammer-revenant with glint/shiro.
That’s amazing if your main objective is to get to bronze 1 asap. hammer is the worst rev weapon in PvP.
Back to OP, obviously you can’t just stand there and autoattack them in melee any time. You have to sort of play like a thief, wait for an opening when you can go in and do the quickness autoattack stuff.
Use the CCs to create openings when you can cleave. All it takes is 2-3 seconds and rev can cause some serious damage. It’s all about patience and good awareness.
I got to platinum with hammer rev (full zerk) but the good palyers caught on and it is less effective at higher ranks.
@ OP
as others have said play rev like a thief, full zerk always 2v1 one, never 1v1, sword/axe/staff and call a target and cc bomb them.
How is this build in the meta tier and how are other people using it with success? I am so at a loss.
Power Rev only works if you’re able to read the mid of the enemy player and to use evade/block/blind to neuter the important attacks and to play (very) patiently.
Against players as smart/skilled as you is extremely hard to win a fight, specially in roaming, where enemies aren’t constricted to try to defend or break a control point, and where most of the other classes have better tools to pressure you at range and/or disengage or reset the skirmish.
In PvP is a bit better because control points matter, but anyway the main goal of this build in PvP is to roam and being a +1 (a role in which is worse than the current Thief builds). You have no balance access, no stealth, almost no condition cleanses and your skills have both cooldowns and high energy cost, so no one is expecting you to being able to beat similar skilled players using other classes. Is a high risk – low reward clas which also happens to be hard to use. Deal with it.
The above. Its real value comes down to boons and AOE CC. It deals mediocre damage, cannot fight conditions (in a condition meta) and its not that survivable. TBH, its good for groups but really bad solo.
And do not use hammer, Dwarf stance or retribution line. Complete waste in sPvP.
Super fast/punishing cleave to help with power rez teams, too.
And that is the problem. Power rev was nerfed in sPvP in every area cuz of the cleave CC. Why does the entire power build revolve around rez stomp? Why was not rez stomp nerfed instead of every thing else?