Guild Wars 2

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As the more experienced revenant players might know the revenant is somewhat lacking when it comes to ranged condition damage: axe/mace is a close range weapon pairing; Elemental Blast and Unyielding Anguish are both limited to 600 range; and hammer does poor condition damage even with the help of ice combo fields. I don’t think there’s much that can be done about this in most game modes but there is an item that can help a little in the open world and fractals: the hylek blowgun https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Hylek_Blowgun

Ignore skills 2 and 3 and instead focus on skill 1, “Poison Dart”. Each shot does 6 seconds of poison damage and the fire rate of the weapon is approximately 2 shots per second with around 1000 units of range. My brand new revenant has only 80% condition duration and no Ice sigil but even I can maintain 20 stacks of poison on enemies when using Impossible Odds on Shiro. The weapon also looks pretty nice as it’s a pistol that silently fires poison bullets rather than a blowgun.

It’s certainly not as OP or exploitable as the Frost Gun used to be but it does free you from having to run hammer in your other weapon slot. Just thought I’d share this in case it helps anyone.

Great find! and it works in dungeons as an added bonus.

Another great thing when you drop the bundle, it can be picked up from the ground again.