Guild Wars 2

So learning Rev, what should I know about Roaming solo/in small group.

I’ll just list the few random things that helped me most, since I learned rev recently as a thief main myself. Some of it might be obvious, but it was all important:

*Avoid condi like the plague, or play with an ele friend or something else heal/cleanse specced. In particular, condi mesmer will have a field day with you unless you block literally everything and dodge both moas, and confusion will rip you a new one if you use unrelenting assault with 5+ stacks on you.

*Land equilibrium. It’s so, so important for your damage to land this.

*Swapping legend at the same time as weapon makes it much easier to manage energy and cooldowns while landing swap damage in the beginning. Try to run short with sword/x and herald with staff, then one you’re comfortable with that you can stagger the swaps to get access to the alternate combo if needed.

*If you run 4 on swap sigils (I run cleansing, energy on sword/shield, hydromancy and leeching on staff) you can press the swap legend a fraction of a second before swap weapon to proc all 4 effects every 10 seconds.

*You’re gonna get killed a lot more solo than a thief would, but in a small group you’re much more resilient. Get used to this haha

I am looking at using a different than Meta build utilizing this Build, Any input is appreciated. Also thank you for those tips they did help.

I pretty much went full zerk because why not haha, this is my stuff for comparison.

I haven’t been playing rev long, but that build looks pretty solid numbers wise. My only concerns would be, do you really need that much boon duration and toughness, and is your ferocity a bit low which would offset the greater might stacks you’d get?

Most of your boons don’t stack in magnitude remember, only might does (you can take a strength sigil instead of energy if you want more might), and on my build with 35% boon duration it’s not difficult to keep fury, swiftness and protection permanently on your party. You gain fury when you swap legend thanks to invocation and you’ll be swapping frequently to proc equilibrium and for energy management (legend swap feels more like ele attunements than thief offhand weapons, you’ll almost never want to camp a legend), so if you save your F2 for when you’re in shiro you’ll never have to worry about boons in combat really.

You also don’t need an energy sigil on both weapon sets, as swapping legend can proc the sigils of the currently equipped weapon set, and energy sigils have a 9s ICD. So waiting 1s after your swap is ready, then swapping legend half a second before swapping weapon will proc the energy sigil (and any other on swap sigils) regardless of which weapon set you have it on, and having two won’t proc it twice because of the ICD. So you’re better off having 4 different on swap sigils across your weapons. Also remember that shiro’s stunbreak will regen 25% endurance per use, and that both sets have build in evades and blocks, so while an energy sigil is very nice, if you’re going for tanky stats you might not need it as much as you think.

This might be a more middle of the road build: between the strength sigil, the might from unrelenting assault and the food you’ll be on high might stacks constantly, if not max stacks, and you have more ferocity so your attacks hit harder. You’d also have 45% boon duration base, 33% after swapping weapons and 25% from the F2 = 103% total, and you’d still have 214% crit damage so your damage wouldn’t suffer.

Hope that helps somewhat ^^

Here is a Modified Version, I swapped out the Commanders for Knights.

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Between you and a guildie I chose to go Mara/Cavalier mix it got me a decent mix of stats.

What Jugglemonkey said is spot on. Rev isn’t great solo. But is strong in a small organized group and is very good in a zerg.

When solo I “Swap Legend Class” to Warrior and feel totally comfortable roaming solo.

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What Jugglemonkey said is spot on. Rev isn’t great solo. But is strong in a small organized group and is very good in a zerg.

When solo I “Swap Legend Class” to Warrior and feel totally comfortable roaming solo.

Lol, I can understand that. I have been running more Small Group than Solo normally 3-5 man groups.

I love my rev but I don’t play as much as I used to and my play time is irregular so I can’t play organized groups. For that reason my Rev is currently semi-retired from WvW. I play my War because I can login anytime and run around flipping camps solo. If I meet up with other roamers fine. Meet a zerg also fine. Come across a condi Mesmer or thief? Bring it on. No problem on a my war. (doesn’t mean I win but I also don’t get destroyed)

If I had a dedicated roaming group I would definitely play my Power Invo Rev because the damage is just insane.

Yeah I swap between my S/D Thief and Rev depending on what I am finding more of on opposing teams. Like this match up is groups of Condi builds mainly Condi Mesmers, in groups of 6-8 running around.

You will hit stupidly hard, but Condis will destroy you.
Good revenants are very hard to kill, but all revenants die to condis.

btw, your enemies will switch to condi if you beat them multiple times.