Guild Wars 2

Artaz.3819:

Rhovanion.8234:

Precision Strike - HIGHLY recommend using this ONLY for catching up to players when Phase Traversal isn’t needed, not to mention you can crit for 2k-3k easily with it.

Use this in fields, quick activation whirl finisher with a 4s cooldown is the key here. It’s awesome for tagging as well. But try not to interrupt your sword autoattack final strike.

Rhovanion.8234:

Unrelenting Assault - Not the best skill for source of DPS but it does really help provide more might for you, thanks to that skill+sigil of strength, I’m easily stacking for 20+(thanks to all this, you easily hitting 3,279 power, highest it can go is 3,429 power) NOT including bloodlust sigil

Use this early and use it often as possible. The only exception is if your enemy is up against objects or it’ll put you in a questionable position (right into the middle of a death zone) after.

Rhovanion.8234:

Coalescene of Ruin - One of the BEST skills for DPS on hammer, not only does it provide good dmg, but a low CD as well, not to mention most never avoid it, so that’s a plus!(you’re better off using this and not the AA) on average it does 5k-17k.

The key with this skill is area denial and positioning. While it does have a 2s cooldown and energy is recovered by the time it is cast, it isn’t always the best option but should be weaved through the standard hammer attack rotation. While it lasts, work on positioning targets to be at the ~800 range for potential double hits (depends on your elevation relative to target).

Rhovanion.8234:

Phase Smash - One of my favorite skills, when entering hibernation from shield, immediately swap to hammer and use this, nuking him for 1k-2k from sigil+XX if you hit him with this one(usually around 2k-3,5k)Only do this when he’s near you waiting for the hibernation to end.

It’s another use it early and use it often skill especially if you can hit a field. The only reason you shouldn’t use it is if you need to catch up or escape.

Rhovanion.8234:

Enchanted Daggers - Best healing skill that can be used offensively, highly recommend using this when missing some HP, to do a bit more dps, or when you plan on using UA(sword 3#) If possible, always use this as an opener or force some dodge rolls before doing it to secure some more hits on them.

This ability is actually one of the cheapest damage to energy cost skills that Rev has. Before you swap out of Shiro, it should be activated even if you don’t need the heal.

Rhovanion.8234:

Jade winds - Has to be one of the best CCs in this game in my opinion, always recommend using it when fighting 2+, swap legends(if you have no energy left) and burst out the squishy target immediately.

It’s actually high risk/high reward and can change the entire fight but make sure the other player doesn’t have stab up first. Immediately using on swap is how I beat opponent Revs because the Shiro stance swap is extremely high level graphic, I then evade because I know what’s coming.

Rhovanion.8234:

Facet of Nature - I can’t stress this enough, I see so many revenants that rarely use this, ALWAYS use this before entering combat, its an insane facet that grants a very good amount of boons(mainly want it for the protection it provides its 6sec!)

Don’t use this when entering combat. Instead activate Facet of Nature during the animation time of your evades (i.e. Sword UA – hello, Might stacks gets a 50% boon duration increase or Hammer PS when aiming at a Fire field) and then as soon as that animation is over, then activate One with Nature. The key of F2 is Protection + Regen + a ton of more offense all subject to the 50% boon increase too. Basically, spam it if in combat; it’s enormous the difference this ability makes to the entire Rev class both offensively and defensively so if you are struggling, master this first.

They’re good but this is mostly my preferred play style, worked so far against most players for me, Facet of nature is probably the only thing I have to keep on since I got a habit of using it 24/7 when in fights, since I mostly do spvp to provide boons for everyone.
As for UA, other than the purpose of might stacking or evading, I find it useless as its insanely buggy and can easily be avoided by good players, not to mention I can always do more dps for autoing.

rchu.8945:

Rhovanion.8234:

Build is stronger and better than before!

I agree, it’s a pretty good build.

Btw, do you have any opinions on all the hard-on people are getting for Mallyx condi builds?

Its a good build, but so far the ones I’ve fought against with the PvP build I have here I’ve won most of them, just dodge some of their big attacks that come from condi and burst him out quick, their only reliable heal is coming from mallyx, so you have a huge advantage.

Easy way to avoid that issue is by using IO before doing any type of animation, that way when the visual animation ends, it actually ends and not have to wait a bit longer.

Been doing that and have had no trouble with it so far.

Build is stronger and better than before!

They already fixed this issue if I’m not mistaken, haven’t had an issues with the facets on my end so far since patch.

Ventari is pretty darn useful for certain scenarios.
Only use it when solace is needed, but other than that, I avoid it.

But I do admit it does need a pretty big buff to be useful, or lower its energy cost.

Is this a zerg build or some thing?
If it is, to much toughness, little HP if you plan on sticking to the front line, gotta have a right balance for it.
If you plan on sticking in the back doing major DPs, might as well go all out DPs with hammer, since the 2# skill easily does 10k+ per hit with massive AOE

If its roaming, try balancing everything out, I personally tried my best with mine and works insanely great for roaming, works fine in pve as well

Really its just a learn to play issue from what I see here, the class is top notch, usually doing 800k-900k dmg usually, most professions don’t deal that amount of dmg easily in the whole duration of a match.

goldengut.9134:

I agree enough is enough getting killed thru walls is ridiculous try fixing all the bugs you have that are causing the gameplay to be really poor and how about switching the servers up alittle huh same 2 servers for a month or more straight

Fixing the exploits is one thing, fighting same servers is another different story.

Remember when Black Gate went to tier 2 for a while? Yea, they just dominated easily for the entire duration if I’m not mistaken, easily going up to tier 1 again.

I say the system is doing a good job, the servers just need to step it up, sadly it wont happen since most people don’t even bother WvW due to anet ignoring and nerfing it to the ground constantly.

The way I’ve always normally fought against condi players, is mostly through kiting and using hammer, only using sword+shield to get some dps in but mostly for the healing/blocking provided with the skills you have on them.
sword/shield>glint
Hammer>shiro, love the ripost it provides to remove chill, anything that hinders your movement and provides 50 endurance back so another extra dodge to use!

This really isn’t an issue what so ever, if I have to say so myself, I always seem to have energy to spare and waste it most of the time, heck, I rarely even need to use the elite, only time I see myself using it is normally to save an ally from being stomped, nothing else.

Here’s one of my builds for WvW and PvE, of course this is personal preference, others like running different styles but this one works perfectly for me and still testing other methods to keep improving it, though its a roaming one, it works just fine for zerg fights, front line and back line, hammer easily does 10k+(per hit, not total on aoe), and if needed to go to the front line, sword/shield.
Overall, hammer is your main source of dps, sword/shield is mostly there for recovering hp and avoiding bursts, but they still pack a punch!
Everything I talk in there is specifically to the builds there, also plan on improving it by making small video fights showing the actual potential of it.
My WvW build

Didn’t they fix this issue a while ago now? Guess they might of forgotten some areas, but who knows..

I personally find them squishy, just like a guard with out aegis/massive healing.
But, what makes it up is the massive evades, blocking skills they have

Only trait I find EXTREMELY useful to help you stay in a fight, would be Assassin’s Annihilation, another thing that can help you keeping that hp up even more is foods granting you HP on a 66% chance when critting, being on a 2sec cd.

rchu.8945:

Rhovanion.8234:

rchu.8945:

thanks for the info guys, Im using OP’s PvE build and Taldren’s WvW, and keeping armor as Marauder only. So far pretty good in both game mode.

If anyone using these builds in raids, do you mind providing some feedback?

Thanks.

I’ve used my current one being the WvW pure offense with some small changes.
sword-sigil of strength
shield-sigil of air
hammer- sigil of fire+ sigil force
instead of Invocation, I run retribution like the 2nd build in there for some defense, along in devastation going assassin’s annihilation for sustain to keep that hp up.

So far it works perfectly, doing from 7k to 20k with hammer(not AA but his 2# skill)
the hammer and sword’s AA does nice enough dps, Its best to stick with hammer since you want to get on the circle to avoid those wipes and free up some one to go melee, so you don’t lose any dps, just use sword/shield on his splitting phase or for healing, also don’t be afraid of using facet of chaos to knock back those red orbs doing dps on those in the circle, or keep that facet active to provide a perma protection to 5 people.

thanks, that’s good to hear. Btw, do you carry 2 hammers with different sigils, one for PvE and one for WvW? What consumable are you using in the raid?

I use only one hammer(for now), truffle steak and superior sharpening stone is what I use.

Druid wins by far, the heals he can provide in a short amount of time is just insane with out any trouble.

rchu.8945:

thanks for the info guys, Im using OP’s PvE build and Taldren’s WvW, and keeping armor as Marauder only. So far pretty good in both game mode.

If anyone using these builds in raids, do you mind providing some feedback?

Thanks.

I’ve used my current one being the WvW pure offense with some small changes.
sword-sigil of strength
shield-sigil of air
hammer- sigil of fire+ sigil force
instead of Invocation, I run retribution like the 2nd build in there for some defense, along in devastation going assassin’s annihilation for sustain to keep that hp up.

So far it works perfectly, doing from 7k to 20k with hammer(not AA but his 2# skill)
the hammer and sword’s AA does nice enough dps, Its best to stick with hammer since you want to get on the circle to avoid those wipes and free up some one to go melee, so you don’t lose any dps, just use sword/shield on his splitting phase or for healing, also don’t be afraid of using facet of chaos to knock back those red orbs doing dps on those in the circle, or keep that facet active to provide a perma protection to 5 people.

You can check this build for PvE, I’ve used it and works great.
You can always use exotic versions, of course its lesser stats, but works great nonetheless!
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vlAQNAseinvN2gS6JvQRZlbosryPUYV5IKYs8ElFNFSdG74HtDIARwegJshA-TVTBQBU4BBQj9HqwBE4BHBAzoE8KK3yn+guokoSq8gHNEL4EAkQ1BAwhAIAwBw5Nv5nH48zP/8zPvzP/8zP/8SBonQL-w
As for Devastation trait line, you can always swap Assassin’s Annihilation for Swift Termination for more DPS, I personally use assassin’s trait to stay up in the champ’s face AAing with sword, along with doing a bit more dmg per hit I do on them. Just learn on timing the evasion skills/blinds, really makes things easier.

I’ve tried it for the fun of it and honestly, mace as a main weapon, just isn’t great, the AA is just terrible, don’t get me wrong, its meant for condi, but even then, torment isn’t that great to begin with, I’m better off using sigil of earth on it.
Only thing I’ve found extremely useful on mace is for simply stacking might, nothing else, to top it off, you can do it to hurt the enemy while stacking might, just make sure the 3rd skill lands on FF.

I’d say just go for a bit of mixed, I personally did what I could best and turned out fine, using 2 different foods along with superior sharpening stone, 1 food is dedicated for tough/prec, other for power/prec, stays roughly at 2,7k-3k armor. Unless you really want an all out tank?

Pretty simple, I’m looking for a group to do raids and willing to put time, and not quitting in 2-3 tries. Of course using 3rd party programs to voice chat(really helps a lot.)

As for what Professions I play? Only got Revenant fully ascended gear.
Build I use if interested, caps at 3,5k power with everything else being at a good spot too.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vlAQNAseinvNWNS6JrJRZlBlsryfSYV5QJYscrkFNFSdG74HtDIARwegJshA-TVTBQBU4BBQj9HqwBE4BHBAzoEMCnAgrocLf6D6iSiKpyDe0QkQ1BAwhAIAwBw5Nv5nH48zP/8zPvzP/8zP/8SBonQL-w

I’m Central time and usually on around 5pm-2am, some times earlier.

Mail me if interested in-game!

They do, its called Ventari, very strong compared to other professions really, mobile while reflecting while others can’t, they just place it in one spot and that’s it.

Having 2 revs doing it, rotating properly with it, you get a 100% up time on it, they have enough as it is.

Rage runes are good for people who don’t have money, I’ve personally tried both, and I have to say that strength runes are by far better overall, I would barely hit 10k or close to it, but thanks to strength runes, I’m literally hitting over 10k easily.
The way I see it, go for rage, save up money for strength.

Taldren.7523:

Rhovanion.8234:

Taldren.7523:

My preferred WvW build

I liked the idea of your build, criting constantly and all, though I’ve always liked having 2,6k-2,8k armor on heavy professions(not including guard).
Also, since I’ve always planned on going mostly on the offense, this one I made works just perfectly, of course you change traits to your own personal liking, but for me, this just works fine, highest crit I’ve done in wvw so far is 7,9k AA, not including food/utlity, this was just with 25 might stacks alone, and stacking might isn’t hard at all, takes little to no effort.

With the +40 toughness per energy being used … I hit those numbers anyway. The 240% crit damage with a 90% crit rate really adds up with the +20% damage for under 50%, 7% damage for having vulnerability, ect.

I agree, the +40 toughness easily gives the toughness you need, heck, some facets provide 80 alone. But I still prefer having it as base toughness, so it makes it even easier, overall though, this build is pretty darn perfect with some minor changes, with the current one I got being tested its just hitting like a train, 4k-17k(highest dps I’ve seen from it) Best part is, I’m not even using Swift Termination yet.

Anyone notice that when using UA you some times gets bugged and unable to move at all after it ends?

much as I would love to use a sword off hand, it just isn’t good, I literally find Shield/axe by far a lot better, axe does a fairly amount of damage and gap closer on 4# skill, while 5# has an interrupt that sucks the enemy in it.

Joxer.6024:

Would love to see these builds but for some reason the website is bugged, wont load pages? Ah well…..good info anyways!!!

You sure? I just checked them out right now, they’re working just fine.
If you want I can try to see if I can make another link for you.

Spartacus.3192:

Thanks for the builds but i wish people wouldn’t use ascended gear when posting builds. It skews the stats. Most people are not going to have all the ascended pieces you are using but could probably get hold of exotic pieces quite easily. To save them the hassle of switching out all the gear in your link to exotic to see what the stats would look like its best to do it from the start.

Just my 2cents

Thanks anyway for the builds.

Its understandable, but I kept it at ascended mainly because I didn’t plan to share this build one bit, but ended up doing it in the end.

Taldren.7523:

My preferred WvW build

I liked the idea of your build, criting constantly and all, though I’ve always liked having 2,6k-2,8k armor on heavy professions(not including guard).
Also, since I’ve always planned on going mostly on the offense, this one I made works just perfectly, of course you change traits to your own personal liking, but for me, this just works fine, highest crit I’ve done in wvw so far is 7,9k AA, not including food/utlity, this was just with 25 might stacks alone, and stacking might isn’t hard at all, takes little to no effort.

No Pulse.2967:

Vyce.2014:

Rhovanion.8234:

This build looks pretty good, only thing that kinda bothers me is Invigorating Flow, have it proven to be useful with this build at all? Though I kinda see why you went for that and not the other ones.

Equilibrium may be a good choice on that tier. A little extra burst or heal couldn’t hurt when you get dragged into melee. So really it depends on how often you find yourself in that situation.

I was thinking the periodic heal will help mitigate retaliation damage or occasional stray ranged attacks. Having so few hitpoints to begin with, being topped off could mean the difference when that thief decides you’re public enemy #1

I haven’t seen anyone mentioning it yet, but hammer 3 is actually capable of proccing Equilibrum making it a deadly ranged combo.

The timing is kinda tricky since it requires you to swap right as you hit them and Equilibrum’s damage isn’t shown in the damage log, either.

Legend swap procs on swap sigils too, so you can easily add another 1k damage from leeching sigil and a lucky fire sigil proc to it.

Wait what? Sigils proc for swapping legends too? This I didn’t know, am I that blind? Lol wow.

RE:Before anything, please keep in mind that I plan on keeping this build updated here and will be changing it from time to time, so keep an eye on it if you’re interested!
Last update:12/3/2015
Added: PvP Build, 1v1 vids of the build w/different weapons, minor changes to pure offense build.
This is my latest build and working like a charm right now.

PvE, WvW, and sPvP.
Keep in mind the damage I mention here is strictly to this build, not in general for the revenant.
WvW:
Only down fall is not having many methods to survive heavy condi bursts, your best thing to do is to simply kite and when ever pressured, simply go to shiro legend and kite them and begin using Hammer 1# and 2#

How good is the build? Fairly well, had my moments where you simply stomp them and other moments where they can stomp you.
Please keep in mind that this is a pure offense build, put heavy pressure before they do it to you.

Sword:
Auto Attack - Highly have to say to use it constantly as it not only saves you energy but does high dmg, lowest I’ve ever seen was 1,7k and only once, rest are usually 2k-6k, all depends on your might and vulen stack.
Precision Strike - HIGHLY recommend using this ONLY for catching up to players when Phase Traversal isn’t needed, not to mention you can crit for 2k-3k easily with it.
Unrelenting Assault - Not the best skill for source of DPS but it does really help provide more might for you, thanks to that skill+sigil of strength, I’m easily stacking for 20+(thanks to all this, you easily hitting 3,279 power, highest it can go is 3,429 power) NOT including bloodlust sigil

Shield:
Envoy of Exuberance - Simply use it when ever you need a heal, and please use it on top of you, not some where else, otherwise you’ll get Protection only.
Crystal Hibernation - One of the best skills to avoid a condi bomb, just involves predicting it, or being quick enough to use it before they throw them at you.(do keep in mind of the unblockable ones).

Axe:
Frigid Blitz - I’d say its one of the best gap closer aside from Shiro’s Phase traversel, but also saves you energy compared to that utility skill, and does easily 6k dmg!
Temporal Rift - Only meant for interrupting/CCing him down and follow it up with some thing else immediately to secure that hit.

Hammer:
Hammer Bolt - A decent auto attack that deals from 1,7k-8k
Coalescene of Ruin - One of the BEST skills for DPS on hammer, not only does it provide good dmg, but a low CD as well, not to mention most never avoid it, so that’s a plus!(you’re better off using this and not the AA) on average it does 5k-17k.
Phase Smash - One of my favorite skills, when entering hibernation from shield, immediately swap to hammer and use this, nuking him for 1k-2k from sigil+XX if you hit him with this one(usually around 2k-3,5k)Only do this when he’s near you waiting for the hibernation to end.
Field of the mists - Pretty straight forward skill, so no need to explain this really.
Drop the Hammer - Only use this on some one that’s down and when his ally is trying to ress him, or see if you can force a dodge roll out of them, other than that, don’t bother using it.

Shiro:
Enchanted Daggers - Best healing skill that can be used offensively, highly recommend using this when missing some HP, to do a bit more dps, or when you plan on using UA(sword 3#) If possible, always use this as an opener or force some dodge rolls before doing it to secure some more hits on them.
Phase Traversel - Not only is it an insanely good gap closer, but also for running away, always keep an eye on ambients/mobs, anything to use it on when being heavily pressure to reset fight or wait for those important skills to go off CD.(keep in mind it wont save you every time).
Riposting Shadows - Not only is it an amazing break stun, but removes condis such as immob, cripple, chill, and on top of that, it gives you 50 endurance back to you(perfect for those sticky situations)
Impossible Odds - Got some energy to burn? Use this with Sword AA and you’ll be bringing his HP down in no time, no really. Now keep in mind you can combine this with Drop the Hammer, making it quicker and have a higher chance of knocking that player down for 2sec, or simply doing a quicker stomp.
Jade winds - Has to be one of the best CCs in this game in my opinion, always recommend using it when fighting 2+, swap legends(if you have no energy left) and burst out the squishy target immediately.

Glint/Herald:
Face of Light - Only recommend using it when you get bombed from condis to have a slight chance of surviving or when predicting a heavy burst incoming that you wont be able to avoid, the way I love to use this build is to use it when the enemy is gonna burst you down, having no worries of losing hp, but healing instead while going ALL out on that player when he’s not playing defensively.
Face of Darkness - Great break stun and a blind, on top of that a reveal, what’s not to love? Just do keep in mind the radius for it is a little small, so do try getting into a good spot before using it if you plan revealing some one.
Face of Elements - ALWAYS keep this one on CD as it does easily 1,7k-4k per pulse, a really great skill to use for that extra dps
Facet of Strength - Always keep this one on much as you can to stack might and keeps it high amount of might(easily provides 10 for a good duration), if you’re running low on energy, simply use it, 15sec cd, its really no big deal if you have it off for that duration, but once its up, activate it and repeat if you’re in this legend.
Facet of Chaos - Only use this if you plan on interrupting an enemy when he’s reviving a down ally(saves you energy from hammer or from swap if you don’t really need it).
Facet of Nature - I can’t stress this enough, I see so many revenants that rarely use this, ALWAYS use this before entering combat, its an insane facet that grants a very good amount of boons(mainly want it for the protection it provides its 6sec!)

ALWAYS keep face of strength, darkness and elements on before fighting to keep those boons for a good duration, before entering a fight, those seconds you get out of them really help!

(UPDATED!!)
Pure offense build
[CHANGES] Some small trait changes, removed calvalier for berserker ring, swapped Shield to Axe, sigil of air was replaced by sigil of force, swapped Truffle Ravioli for Omnomberry Pie as it works perfectly with the traits for more healing to keep you in the battle longer with out losing any dps

For those that don’t like to much offense

PvE Build
Also keep in mind that you can swap shiro to Ventari for those pesky bosses/dungeons
when needing reflect, making your run a whole lot smoother.
Hope you enjoy.

PvP Build
A build meant for bursting down enemies quick while having a good amount of sustain, giving hp steals from rune, sigil, along with 2 traits.
In Devastation trait line, you can swap Vicious Lacerations for Malicious Reprisal(used this trait for a while and has proven to be extremely useful for bringing down enemies when using shelter/blocks, crystal hibernation.)

WvW 1v1s, 1vX will be added later on as well.
Demonstration videos on the potential of the build its self with different weapons and sigils.
For the sustain to keep your self in the fight and keep adding pressure to enemies
Sword/shield + Staff
s/sh> Sigil of Strength, Sigil of air, Stafkittenigil of Energy, Sigil of Hydromancy.
More offense style, for those who like to go crazy on dps
Sword/Axe + Hammer
Sword/Axe>Sigil of strength, Sigil of Force, Hammer>Sigil of Fire, Sigil of force.

I highly disagree with this, I can already see people complaining if they add this honestly.
As for their auto being high dps, I admit it is a bit to high, really is insane, with my current build I’m doing for 2k minimum, highest being 7k from what I’ve seen so far.

This build looks pretty good, only thing that kinda bothers me is Invigorating Flow, have it proven to be useful with this build at all? Though I kinda see why you went for that and not the other ones.

From what I see on the 1st build, lacks HP by a small amount, maybe its just me, but I’m just comfortable having 19k-20k HP constantly, to avoid going down in those one shot burst skills
For the 2nd build containing magi staff+nomad trinkets, I assume this is a healing/support role for zergs? If so, I highly recommend changing it, the healing over time with the traits you added wont really help much if you’re constantly in a zerg fight, eye for an eye wont be useful as well, you’re better off with Dwarven battle training for those moments where you charge in and apply weakness to people around you, not to mention having 1,5k power wont really do much to the enemy.
I did some changes on that build(rushed it and this is what I got) No idea if you’ll like it but here it goes anyway.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vlAQJASmn3gWNSuQrJRboBlsP0fS4I6QJ4EdrklZlhdmc2RNgEawO6s7G-T1SBABkfEA0SpAXK5OTJY1KDi4BA88hA4T1fA4CAIz+D5pLgUA6J0C-w
swapped runes since you wanted to go for healing for regen.
3rd build is good, but you could lower the crit chance a bit to increase your toughness a little more or HP, having 40% crit chance minimum is the cap in my honest opinion since revenant’s have the easiest methods to get access on Fury.
I’d post my latest build but its still in its finishing touches, I’ll likely post it later on when I can.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vlAQNAsemnvN2gS6JvQRZlbosryPUYV5IKYs8EllZlRNgCaYNjPOxO6r7G-TpRBABpXGQo9HA5EAw3hAQjjAAAPAAA
Is what I usually run with, or swap amulet to soldier, when soloing I normally go with mercy to make things a lot easier, but if you’re with a group, there’s no need for it, swap rune to hoelbrak or dwayna(if you choose this one, do try to keep your healing facet up for that 600 healing every 4sec.) Since it really helps for your allies, and easier to use when a burst is incoming to you, since you wont need to tap the button twice..
As for why Shiro? Not Jalis or another legend? Shiro has to be the BEST one for mobility, healing and elite(being 5sec cd), if you notice, not only does it stun, but daze as well, having an easier time to prevent stomps for your allies.

If you don’t like the runes/amulet, I’d highly recommend Celestial and rune of strength/hoelbrak, keeping everything else the same.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vlAQNAseinvN2gS6JvQRZlbosryPUYV5IKYs8ElFNFqdABICpZ4DnwugJshA-T1SBwAUeAAFVmRb/Bcq/84EAoUpBdzfROCATUCiSfAgDBApAiYoF-w
This build is what I use to have, a rather old build, currently have another on test, being a lot better by 100×. Worked quite well on PvE and WvW, despite having 24% crit chance, you’ll build it easily thanks to Maniacal Persistence, and thanks to glint, having 44% w/fury, even easier to achieve.

I don’t get why everyone is complaining about it, from the 150+ hours I’ve played on revenant, shiro’s heal skill has saved me count less of times in SPvP and WvW, its an amazing skill, on top of healing ,you’re getting NEARLY 1k dmg added for 6 HITS not 3 or 4 but 6! And on top of that, you can trait in Devastation, adding Assassin’s annihilation adding more DMG/Healing to you with 1sec ICD
I’ve personally found that shiro’s healing skill is more effective overall than glint’s heal in most scenarios that I’ve been in, heck, I use it more along with shield.

What they really need to nerf is the mesmer bust, only came upon only one but the damage is just insane, he literally bursted me for my 20k hp I had with his #3 GS skill and 3 mantras alone. Either he was abusing a bug he found, or he simply found a legit way to make the burst highly effective(to much effective if I say so myself)

Aside from that, I see a slight nerf on dps, because I personally even agree that the dmg is just insane right now, I’m doing 4k-8k crits with hammer 1/2 skills, and this is from spvp.

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They really need to fix this issue, I main my warrior for 3yrs now, I literally had to abandon the profession and go to another one just to be able to kill anyone in spvp.
It feels like fighting a raid boss that requires 20+ people on a 1v1 scenario when you’re up against any profession in spvp, excluding another berserk/warrior.
As if warriors had enough problems by being force to use specific trait lines to be useful.

Only way I see warriors able to come back is by
Improving healing, Adrenal Health(minor trait)
Fast Hands baseline can be nice as it would let you abandon the Discipline trait line and use better traits, opening more doors for your build as I like to call it.
Lowering the CD from berserker burst skills(while in berserk), bar fills up quickly but force to wait out the CD regardless to use it again, even with Smash Brawler trait.
Head Butt needs range increase from 180 to 300 or slightly little more as every profession has insane mobility now, they can just simply kite the kitten out of you,
aside from all that, I still feel like we’re force to either use the same stance skills or typical shout skill setup to even stand a small chance in a team fight, and even then a druid is a lot more useful than a shout build warrior, heck, every profession is better than warrior in every possible thing that they can do.

I just want my warrior back, to be viable, not some bubble walking to a pin party.

I honestly never notice this issue till now, its going to the point where I have to reactivate my facets every 30sec or so, really irritating.
whether I’m out of combat or in combat.

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I really love the whole thing on herald but I just find it useful for PvE, sPvP, its good against brain dead players, not trying to sound harsh, but let’s be real, a experience player will know when to stop attacking when you have your healing on, I just don’t see it that quite useful, UNLESS you’re literally roaming with a group being a support role, healing/ccing/providing boons/ressing like a god. I see it extremely useful for a bunker role/ressing machine(lot more useful than a thief from what I’ve tested with)

Strength rune is alright, a little bit of more dps since it provides a decent amount of power, along with higher time on might(able to stack more than usual during fights)
(talking about rune only)
Strength of rage, more ferocity, so going for a crit build would be the best choice, not to mention revenants get THE BEST fury/crit chance traits, so shouldn’t be hard to pull off.

I already tried the strength rune and was doing overall around 6k-12k unrelenting assault and roughly 3k-5k+ or so crits on auto attacks(keep in mind this is with 10+ stacks of might)
It felt like it was missing some thing in the end though, least for me.
I’m planning on trying out runes of rage first since they’re cheaper and thanks with traits+sigils, he can easily pack 24% more dmg, while with strength, he only packed around 12%-18% more dmg(depending on amount of boons you’d have, along with other stuffs)

The way I really see it on paper from the triats, sigil, runes, rune of rage provides a lot more than rune of strength if built correctly. More overall dmg % with minimal effort, still able to maintain 10+stacks of might, more ferocity.

I see hammer lot better overall honestly, good aoe attack with the 2nd skill being on LOW cd as heck, the damage per auto, and 1,200 range is not bad one bit at all, you position yourself correctly, you use the 4th skill to avoid range dps on certain mobs to help ress or for what ever reason, a cc if needed and an evade skill, staff… I just see it useful for pvp honestly.

Warrior.
Revenge(let’s be honest, who doesn’t love using this and kill that enemy player who downed you?)
Shield
Reflects from shield+mace.
The stability they provide.
Stances.
Great Sword
Elite banner
Burst shot from rifle(gotta love them 10k+ crits)
Healing signet

Nala.5748:

its mah first build im doing so i would like to have ur opinion on it
i wanted to go strong condi and a little tanky with this cuz i dont know how squishy revenant is..

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vlEQRApX5un3geNSuQvJRboHlsP0kS4I6SJ4EtrkFUlhNpniKNgDSwO92nH-TxiAABvfCASUjAAHEgwUus0+DgqWxpqqIpSQxUStxTAYQ9BBAOA2tu1tuBLv8yLv8yt7u7u7u7GA-e

thx for helpers

Just checked the build out and it looks very good, though I might want to say you’ll maybe want to lower the precision, having 50% crit chance is enough, and since you’ll be using the trait to grant 40% crit from fury, you’ll end up with around 70% or more. Personally I think its to much, now other than that, you’ll just want to use rare veggie pizza, along with tuning crystals to improve your condi dmg overall.

ShinNakon.9085:

WvW roaming build

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vlAQNAW5nnvNeNS6JvJRZlJlsryjSYV5SJYssrkFUlh9omiKNgCWwO91nH-TVyCABA8AAO+gAgsuBm3fwT1fSUJYWK/o4CAM9RAIAACwMnZysMDG6QH6QH6Q7mDdmLXmzsQALWDA-w

Still trying to figure out my WvW group/PvE builds prob power based but wont fully know until HoT

Looks promising, I personally wanna wait a bit more to make my pve build, I want to make it a high dps/support role.
physical or condi base, no idea, only time will tell(for raids mainly)

Tyaen.5148:

I’m still on the fence, but I’m thinking about this:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vlQQNAS5unvN2gS6JvQRVlbosryPUYW5IKYs8ElFUlhNpmiKNgCWw+81nH-TVyCAB1pDAgjAgLaGO+BAo8+Deq+TiKBzS5HFXEgAAIA7cnBAH9oH9oH9olCYshRA-w

I pretty much only WvW. I think it’s got enough damage and sustainability, and I plan to use the hell out of phase traversal.

I’m also really unsure about whether Corruption or Devestation is the better choice, I can see benefits to both.

You’re mostly going for condi base stats, so I’d definitely recommend superior rune of the undead or perplexity(best one in my opinion by far) especially if you go Mallyx/Glint.
Anyway, hope you don’t get upset or anything but changed a few things and thought of showing it to you if you like it.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vlQQRAse5nnfN2gSuJvQRJlbosjyPU4S5IKor8EllTlhdpomKNgCawe93nH-TVyCABO8AAA4IAowBB4F9DCt/wFnAAPV/JRlgZp8LAACAH9oH9oH9olCYRhRA-w
Heavily focuses on mace/axe for the dps while sword/shield provides might stacking/healing if needed. Though you can also stack with mace alone but yea, also using the utilities from mallyx will constantly provide resistance so you wont need to worry much along with having high crit chance to help you proc those sigils in a fight.

It looks good overall but why no mallyx? Though his elite and anguish aren’t quite good as it use to be, you can still find them useful for the other skills, one providing resistance to avoid blinding(main one to avoid) and other condis, while the other gives confusion and removes boons.