Guild Wars 2

Hey all. I am a big fan of healing but not digging the tempest or the druid very much. I was messing with the revenant builds and while I couldn’t find much on them or whether they are viable at all. So I went ahead and tried to put one together. Just curious on how a couple of things work.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vlAQNAsemn3gmNSuQzJRboNlsP0oS4I6UJ4ENskFglx+2dDeNgDSg9iOCB-TFyGABBpUJS9BDt/A5nCAAeCACpsCKlgSq+DpA8bvF-w

So I figure with this I would just play with what I did have and while nothing scales terribly well the build does have 105% healing effectiveness. Is it overkill and does it leave the revenant itself way to vulnerable? Looking at it it can lay down some mad healing but not sure if all of these bonuses stack with each other reliably either?

Has anyone had much success in using their revenant to heal raids reliably or is it really that far behind other healers?

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Dajman.2740:

Hey all. I am a big fan of healing but not digging the tempest or the druid very much. I was messing with the revenant builds and while I couldn’t find much on them or whether they are viable at all. So I went ahead and tried to put one together. Just curious on how a couple of things work.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vlAQNAsemn3gmNSuQzJRboNlsP0oS4I6UJ4ENskFglx+2dDeNgDSg9iOCB-TFyGABBpUJS9BDt/A5nCAAeCACpsCKlgSq+DpA8bvF-w

So I figure with this I would just play with what I did have and while nothing scales terribly well the build does have 105% healing effectiveness. Is it overkill and does it leave the revenant itself way to vulnerable? Looking at it it can lay down some mad healing but not sure if all of these bonuses stack with each other reliably either?

Has anyone had much success in using their revenant to heal raids reliably or is it really that far behind other healers?

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It’d possible to heal as a Ventari healer in raids. The build is straight up deva/salvation/herald or invo/salvation/herald (deva is usually better).
But it’s not optimal in a raid environment and I don’t think it’ll ever be.

If I can just follow up with another question that I wasn’t thinking about last night while laying in bed. Is the inability to be taken seriously as a solo healer our lack of water fields? If protectors solace was a water field vs a light field do you think that would make us competitive with the ranger and ele or is it just a raw healing numbers thing? With 1300 healing power and the 105% healing duration your regeneration alone ticks for 600+ a second on your team. Plus the actual ventari skills and staff and shield compliment it well also.

I will have to alter my druid a bit and ele to make them my healers again but it’s a bummer. Or find a guild kind enough to let me play support rev.

Is the meta currently to just get one massive beast of a healer and solo heal all content or are most using two anyway?

Going to keep it short because I’m in a bit of a rush. Healing on Revenant isn’t a problem and works perfectly fine, the issue is that you’re not doing anything else. If you look at for example a Druid, they keep people alive while buffing the group with 4 different damage increasing buffs and they do a nice chunk of personal damage as well. Meanwhile Elementalist is more protective and has a higher healing output and their heals are much easier to apply (as far as I understand) while also doing high damage themselves.

Revenants just heal, apply a few boons both the other healers can maintain as well, do poor damage meanwhile and don’t really contribute anything else you otherwise wouldn’t get.

tl;dr healing Revenant works just fine. There just isn’t really any gain or reason to take one.

Dajman.2740:

If I can just follow up with another question that I wasn’t thinking about last night while laying in bed. Is the inability to be taken seriously as a solo healer our lack of water fields? If protectors solace was a water field vs a light field do you think that would make us competitive with the ranger and ele or is it just a raw healing numbers thing? With 1300 healing power and the 105% healing duration your regeneration alone ticks for 600+ a second on your team. Plus the actual ventari skills and staff and shield compliment it well also.

I will have to alter my druid a bit and ele to make them my healers again but it’s a bummer. Or find a guild kind enough to let me play support rev.

Is the meta currently to just get one massive beast of a healer and solo heal all content or are most using two anyway?

Bovan is correct our problem is a lack of irreplaceable contributions to the overall DPS.
All buffs that a support revenant could apply a DPS revenant can do as well.
Druids have a large around of unique offensive buffs while tempests have a high personal DPS while healing.
Revenant healing is currently designed in such a way that it can’t be a meta without being broken somewhere. Because of that I’d rather not have devs investing time into this.
If your objective is just having fun with Ventari healing (it’s the most fun form of support IMO) you can attempt to get into a raid group that doesn’t care about the meta.

It works but its clunky and feels unfinished. Revs out heal sustain wise both druids and eles the main issue is that the majority of the healing potential is all super close melee 240 radius and is way to heavily dependent on resources. they can also give out boons and boon duration switching into herald during low periods but those are most likely to be covered by someone else or multiple people to cover x boon just through passive actions without giving up or trait for something specific.