Guild Wars 2

I just wonder which 1v1’s in pvp you can take now after the dmg nerfs. Condition Mesmer stays an impossible matchup, a thief became almost impossible to win against unless they are really really stupid and in general the life of a rev got way harder now. I might think the wrong way but for me it seems that a-net dislikes the idea of Revenant being decent in 1v1’s and rather wants him to stay in teamfights all the time.
So which 1v1’s can you pick now?

Thief is actually a good target for a rev with the right build. You can pretty much completely neutralize them or outright kill them if they’re bad. Not gonna bother showing the build because it’s not on metabattle so I’ll get flamed to heck for it.

I mean that applies to most non-condi builds, you should still be able to 1v1 them if they’re worse than you.

Came across a few power revs last night while playing burn guard. You can guess the outcome on that one. Weak to condi and I didn’t even have to worry too much about staff 5 or PS anymore.

Guardians and Necros are my go-to-kills now… Ele and Scrapper are a little more fair as our damage was sort of broken vs them before, but they’re fine too.

Mesmers are terrible, but I don’t think any worse than before as Precision Strike was never a reliable damage source vs them and they’re usually traited to be immune to chill anyways.

The matchups where I really feel the nerf hard are things like d/d thief and condi-warrior where I think I relied on PS a little too much to murder them while I kited.

As for the changes to Surge… I dunno, I never really counted on this move for my dps in 1v1 fights, since like, anyone who’s getting crushed by it would have probably lost anyways.

But yeah, I think you’re spot on with your assumption about sticking to team fights and +1’s this season.

In general it’s still possible to hold 1v1s but harder to win them. While teamfights and +1 should be revs bread and butter, if you have a competent thief or mesmer on your team you can still take 1v1s and allow them to +1 you.

Crowley.8761:

Thief is actually a good target for a rev with the right build. You can pretty much completely neutralize them or outright kill them if they’re bad. Not gonna bother showing the build because it’s not on metabattle so I’ll get flamed to heck for it.

I wonder how you do that, you can’t oneshot them, you can’t follow up if they know what they do and they easily outdamage you.
Ofc if they are bad but let’s talk about equally skilled players else the discussion is pointless. So could you explain me how on earth the second hardest rev counter (after condi mes) is an easy target for you?

“meta builds” lol there is only one meta build (not sure if its still meta though)

torben.1532:

Crowley.8761:

Thief is actually a good target for a rev with the right build. You can pretty much completely neutralize them or outright kill them if they’re bad. Not gonna bother showing the build because it’s not on metabattle so I’ll get flamed to heck for it.

I wonder how you do that, you can’t oneshot them, you can’t follow up if they know what they do and they easily outdamage you.
Ofc if they are bad but let’s talk about equally skilled players else the discussion is pointless. So could you explain me how on earth the second hardest rev counter (after condi mes) is an easy target for you?

I’ll give you a hint first: Stand in the fire.

Everything that is not Mesmer or a good Thief. I can easily decap and then cap when 1v1ing a thief though, so that’s not all bad.

with power rev i lose to anything that is condi.

with condi rev i can kill anything but thiefs.

I have accepted this game is like rock,paper, scissors and rather than try to beat scissors withpaper i team up with rock to take down scissors.