Guild Wars 2

Hrmmmm….

In anticipation of Shiro I made a full zerker ascended set but after the beta I am leaning towards a Condi build… Now… I don’t know what I want to do, Lol.

What are you all rolling for for stats / build?

Personally, I am still going to roll zerker. Shiro/ Glint or Jalis. I loved the feel of it during the beta and now that sword has gotten a boost I think it will be much better but have to wait and see. I didn’t much like condi for revenants but I also didn’t play around too much with the builds during the last beta, I was getting a feel for the toon and the build I was running then.

Most likely I will go s/s or s/shield and hammer.

While condi is more viable it’s still not meta. I am hoping that the “hard core” content makes it so that it forces us to have a tank and healer and other damage types more in game outside of the zerker. But I’m also not one to run condi. It’s more personal choice there.

Good luck with deciding what you want to run we have another beta weekend (at least) to get builds started. The nice thing about the revenant is we don’t have a meta build yet so no one is telling you “you must run this or we won’t take you in a group.”

I’m going to be going Jalis/Glint. Herald, Retribution, Invocation. Staff, Sword/Shield.

Zealot’s gear to get a nice rounding of dps and healing.

frayon.3984:

Personally, I am still going to roll zerker. Shiro/ Glint or Jalis. I loved the feel of it during the beta and now that sword has gotten a boost I think it will be much better but have to wait and see. I didn’t much like condi for revenants but I also didn’t play around too much with the builds during the last beta, I was getting a feel for the toon and the build I was running then.

Most likely I will go s/s or s/shield and hammer.

While condi is more viable it’s still not meta. I am hoping that the “hard core” content makes it so that it forces us to have a tank and healer and other damage types more in game outside of the zerker. But I’m also not one to run condi. It’s more personal choice there.

Good luck with deciding what you want to run we have another beta weekend (at least) to get builds started. The nice thing about the revenant is we don’t have a meta build yet so no one is telling you “you must run this or we won’t take you in a group.”

This. Also I don’t really like condi on Revenant. Mallyx is more about condi management then condi output, plus it’s only 1 legend over 2 we have to use.

For pvp, I’m going to go cleric with Ventari/Glint

. . atleast at first prolly go something totally different in a month after hot lol

I don’t very much run fractals or anything, I strictly PVP or WVW. So not to concerned about any meta just yet.

I was thinking of running celestial or sinister setup with condi build. But after seeing they buffed the sword output. We’ll see after the next beta…

Unrelenting Assault is going to be fun in pvp with the evade, even on bunker builds.

I’ve already got a full ascended zerker set of armor on my warrior that i will switch to my rev. Will most likely be using shiro/glint in pve and have been running fractals to get the last two armor chests to finish a set of soldiers gear for more wvw zerg play to survive on the front lines easier. Planning on after completing soldiers gear to start working on a condi set of gear (maybe rabid or sinister, haven’t decided yet) that i can use my sinister accessories with

Apothecary Trinkets/Shaman Armor with Mace/Shield + Staff, Ventari/Glint

i’m a little torn.

sword + sword / hammer
ascended knight’s gear
shiro / jalis legend
devestation / retribution / invocation

or sword + shield / hammer
ascended knight’s gear
shiro / jalis legends
devestation / invocation / herald

i haven’t decided if i want the passive defenses from retribution or the active defenses from herald (shield)

i will also have a full exotic zerker set for faceroll content

First Setup

Going Shiro/Jalis, S/S + Hammer

Zerk gear + 6*Runes of Rage
Hammer Sigils: Force + Accuracy
S/S Sigils: Force + Accuracy

Trait lines: Devastation, Retribution, Invocation (better Fury)

It lets me switch from Burst to Tanky mode with jalis & hammers reducing dmg by 20% and having RoTGD.

AehAZE.1867:

… after the beta I am leaning towards a Condi build…

Weird I went to the opposite direction, after the beta I decided to craft my zerk asc set, I was saving the materials to craft it when I decided which stat to pick.
Seems that direct damage will still be king, if more difficult mobs appear I can just change my trinkets to something more tanky or add cond to the mix.

I WvW mainly, Think ill go shiro/glint and run a mix of Soldiers and zerk gear.

I typically gear my characters more towards the defensive side than most. Revenant will be the first time I plan to go mostly/full zerker gear, but their health is much better than guardian while still having access to some strong active defenses, so I hope it works for me.

Cleric armor + Trinkets, sigil of life and sigil of water.

Staff and hammer

Salvation for the regen effect on staff orbs + outgoing healing bonus

Devastation mostly for the group ferocity buffs and the siphoning grandmaster traits

And the most important one Glint, boon duration + might on every boons applied and perma protection.

If they dont change the numbers too much this thing has the potential to be tankier then Guard cleric hammer bunker build

So after talking on the build forum for the build I made and want to use I learned a great deal about how the zerker armor would end up giving me too much crit chance so I changed the armor and runes to being Valkyrie + 6 runes of rage while the weapons, trinkets, back item, necklace, and rings remain as zerker to get a boost in the crit to around 40% The rest of mine is almost the same though: sw/sh or sw/a and hammer with legends being shiro and glint.

frayon.3984:

So after talking on the build forum for the build I made and want to use I learned a great deal about how the zerker armor would end up giving me too much crit chance so I changed the armor and runes to being Valkyrie + 6 runes of rage while the weapons, trinkets, back item, necklace, and rings remain as zerker to get a boost in the crit to around 40% The rest of mine is almost the same though: sw/sh or sw/a and hammer with legends being shiro and glint.

going to run pretty much this, except zerk armor and valkyrie trinkest (most of them), up to 52% base crit rate (factoring accuracy sigil), so the rest can go to vitality. Rune of rage allows to select survivability stuff in invocation (no need for extra fury with Glint).