Guild Wars 2

Since halloween is coming up and I don’t actually have any experience playing revenant I was wondering…….which weapon set up will be the best for tagging mobs in the upcoming halloween events?

Probably hammer, not much beats having max range.

If ground is flat, hammer.

If the ground is not flat….good luck. Really isn’t anything else except maybe Elements in Glint?

Hammer is good because of aoe, particularly Coalescence of Ruin. Other than that, whatever combines fast attack speed and aoe. Sword or Staff could also be good options.

Kodiak.3281:

If ground is flat, hammer.

If the ground is not flat….good luck. Really isn’t anything else except maybe Elements in Glint?

I don’t know if Elements is going to help really. I’d rather cling hard as hell to my swiftness, and ultimately it is a 15 sec CD and a small radius. I actually think Coalescence of Ruin (hammer 2) might solve the problem you’d have without flat terrain because it isn’t a projectile, it follows the ground to your target and hits everything in between. The halloween zone is generally quite flat anyway, as are many of the non-HoT maps were tagging is important.

thanks for the feedback guys!

I’d have to go with hammer too…

Range, Puncture, AoEs everywhere

mmm hammer…..

Well another vote for hammer then.

Lauriewonnacott.9841:

I don’t know if Elements is going to help really. I’d rather cling hard as hell to my swiftness, and ultimately it is a 15 sec CD and a small radius. I actually think Coalescence of Ruin (hammer 2) might solve the problem you’d have without flat terrain because it isn’t a projectile, it follows the ground to your target and hits everything in between. The halloween zone is generally quite flat anyway, as are many of the non-HoT maps were tagging is important.

CORuin follows the ground if it’s flat and the game doesn’t consider you or your target on an incline. However there are many places in the game where, despite looking like a natural incline, the game won’t see it as such and CORuin will get stopped. There were bug threads about this each BWE (but Roy is aware now).

The maddening part is this can vary greatly from spot to spot even right next to each other. For example a friend and I tried it on the southern LA bridge. Standing in the middle of the base of the bridge, my CORuin was stopped. However on the left side of the bridge his CORuin was not stopped.

Again this is where my whole “If the ground is flat” part comes in, because if it’s not flat then you will only guaranteed get the first tick on CORuin and the other 3 blasts will not trigger. And other than CORuin the only other real ground targeted AOEs we have are Phase Smash (also suffers numerous Z axis errors) and Elements (which as you indicate is on a 15s cool down). Swiftness should be permanent btw as even with just base +15% boon duration (herald minor) you can stack up to 40 seconds of any timed buff.

I think mace #2 + vengeful hammers on Jalis has good tagging potential. Also the aoe with malyx.

Obviously you’d also run hammer to tag things while closing in

hammer and Mace 2/3 make a good aoe tagging setup.

how does unrelenting assault work when there are multiple targets around? would that be good for tagging? I usually prefer to use a cleaving autoattack to tag mobs that die quickly

“you can have my hammer!”

Gaaroth.2567:

“you can have my hammer!”

Not a weapon really but… Jalis hammers? XD

Hammer is OK but bit slowish, Mace/Axe s nice for tagging due to 2,3,5 skills

Jalis hammers are best for tagging as long..terrain is flat. Same goes for hammer.

Other than that its hard to choose between staff and sword..Staff overall has better cleave but rift from sword cleaves mobs even better (rifts can hit up to 12 times)

Hammer2 + Mace2/Axe (Mace2 pulse for 3s and axe for gap closer) with Mallyx for the pulsing AoE or Elite. Jallis’ hammers might work but I’m not sure the damages are good enough.

HAMMMMMMERRR

staff 5 works good to tag and gets you a bit of distance, combined with hammer you can Leroy Jenkins your way into loot.

Hammer is super aoe spam adventure.