Guild Wars 2

Wolfs Shadow.7234:

SoulstitchMMO.1396:

Then vs guild team, vs guild team, my team with thieves, vs guild team.

Nice matchmaking their anet.

You could join a guild team….. o_0 heck ask one of the ones you faced

But in all honesty I understand that frustration.
Win, Loss, Win Loss, Win, Loss….. (4 hours just to get passed 2 pips)

I wouldn’t even care about win/loss being even, if I were in SoloQ, it’s being a team facing a guild team that’s frustrating.

Yeah, I’d take you seriously if I didn’t get 1 pip away from ranking out of emerald, and then face nothing but guild teams. Kinda takes away from your whole theory there. I mean unless you’re trying to say that my skill level needs to be matched against full premades…

Then vs guild team, vs guild team, my team with thieves, vs guild team.

Nice matchmaking their anet.

dank.3680:

Everytime I see someone commenting how Rev is fine, I just wonder if they ever even used it in pvp/wvw without someone following them around casting clears on em..

Resistance says Hello.

Foefaller.1082:

Relevant:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Upcoming-Balance-Changes-Week-of-December-14-2015

Demonic Defiance: This trait now has a 5 second internal cooldown.

I don’t think it’s killed the god that was Mallyx, but it might have made Him mortal. Now that you can no longer reliably outlast conditions from the constant Resistance you got with DD, you’re going to have to make the choice of Jalis or leaving a gaping hole that any Mesmer, Necro, Thief(hey, they still do exist!) or Rev that coupled Mallyx with Jalis can now even more easily exploit with boon stripping. Maybe Ventari, but that’ll strip you of nearly all mobility and, unless you drop a trait line for Invocation, any possible stun break as well.

Mallyx/Shiro might still work with some sigils that help with condtion cleansing, but Mallyx/Glint is pretty much DOA for PvP, nothing there to cleanse conditions or help disengage when the resistance becomes scarce.

People keep forgetting that Revenant is an Auto Attack Class, and will now have to make more use of Pain Absorption. One Pain Absorption with Facet of Nature lasts long enough to completely negate all the Conditions on you.

Yeah that’s what I don’t get. Why masteries are account bound so you can just run around and get all the heroics, but you can’t do the same in wvw with poh?

Infusion.7149:

Please make the chests accountbound again. It is incredibly annoying. Since the change I’ve accidentally gotten 70 proofs on my main WvW character.

You mean you didn’t log out, log in another character, do one event and get your chest under the guise of “character development”.

I don’t understand how Tyler honest can justify in his head that it’s ok to get to just about to level, log out, log in the character you want the chest on, and accept it there. Rather than just throw it in the bank for the character.

This is a Quality of Life issue here. WvW Progress is Account Progression. The reward, is personal? This is not logical. This makes no sense. It’s unncessary tedium to have to log out/in to accept a chest when it could just be passed around, or currency.

Please fix this ridiculousness.

Rev doesn’t need to be fixed, that’s the problem. If you’re not doing well with revenant, it’s a L2P issue.

Stack fire by doing Mace 2, Glint 8, Glint Elite… or stack torment by Mace 3, Mace 5 and Mallyx 9/Elite.

Boon Strip when you need to.

Now about that SoloQ?

When will the developers understand that WvW IS Endgame.

Come on now. What irritates me most about this, is that pve players don’t have to gain Masteries per Character, and Masteries make getting pve heroic challenges a cake walk.

Yeah I just discovered this “Fix” today. What happened to the good Anet developers? I Honestly can’t even understand these new ones. They aren’t even gamers any more, they are just trying to funnel people into the cash shop, and replace content with grind.

Maris.3164:

Burtnik.5218:

SoulstitchMMO.1396:

God you people are sad. Mallyx is only bad in some ridiculous theorycrafting. In practice he’s amazing. Start playing Mallyx on a regular basis and you’ll how amazing the Legend is.

What use elite for Mallyx has, other than triggering trait? Whats the point of holding conditions on yourself as well? For now all i see is banish spam and vs condi classes pain spam. Either way just a spam on a legend and traitline that doesnt know what they want to do.

Well I had fun watching a mesmer run away from me and suicide on the stacks of torment I put on him. He probably didn’t know what torment does.

Or didn’t have any condi cleanse and running is better than getting beat in the face with mace or fire. If you move… Torment, if you don’t move, Fire, If you attack, confusion. Basically Condi Rev can just punish you no matter what you do.

SinDynasty.7541:

Skills:
1 Embrace the Darkness become utility skill;Unyielding Anguish become elite skill
2 Banish Enchantment: Make remove 2 boons become steal 2 boons.
3 Embrace the Darkness: This skill no longer increase 10% all stats.Pulse torment and a random condition every 1 second to nearby foes.
4 Unyielding Anguish (50 energy cost): Teleport to your foe,deal damage,and convert your all boons into foe’s conditions.
Traits:
1 Opportune Extraction: Make remove a boon become steal a boon.

This is my idea of Mallyx about a month ago,but it hasn’t happened.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/revenant/a-idea-of-Mallyx/first#post5706819

That would make Mallyx more OP than he already is.

keeping in mind while using Unyielding Anguish and Staff Auto Attack you get extra healing from orbs, and leeching bolt from Auto Attack.

Narkodx.1472:

I STILL like the power build better

Mallyx is better in 1v1 for sure no doubt but I feel like it is easily focused in team fights without the Glint Heal

Plus I just love the staff

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vlAQNAW5nnfN2gSuJvQRHlboskyPU4S5IKor8EllTlRdjOOJNgEWwe92rH-TZxCABAcEAwb/BtKDQxDAY6LAAA

That’s the build I’ve been running with in Ranked and and in WvW, Scavenging Runes and Carrion Amulet.

In team fights you can stack massive fire with Glint Elite, Elemental Blast, and Mace 2, then swap over and start spamming Unyielding Anguish for AoE Pressure, or Boon Stripping. You can also due a ton of pressure with EtD while when you get low on energy before swapping back to Glint.

posthumecaver.6473:

I mean I don’t know with the level cleansing exists in this game, is it really that effective.

It can only dish Torment effectively and like burn guardian it does not have cover conditions.

And that is Torment if you foe is clever and will not move, it will do crap for damage and Revenant will be glass against power damage.

Sure, you can wreck people in hot joins but in competitive PVP?

Cover conditions = poison, chill, weakness, as well as constant pulsing condi, and low cool down burning.

No one likes being farmed by premades. So set it up so that you can group with a partner in solo queue, or find a team and go into team play. It’s really that simple. No one is going to take your “esports scene” or “pro-league” crap seriously when you can gain rewards based on farming solo players.

Mallyx / Herald is amazing as well, with staff and mace/axe. You can use Unyielding Anguish for engage or escape as well as staff 3 / 4 / 5 for additional sustain and for escaping. Scavenging Runes/Dire Armor.

Malchior.5732:

Oh lord, don’t you think you’re getting a bit ahead of yourself?
What exactly does Mallyx do? Spam Resistance and strip boons. That’s all fine and dandy, but what does Shiro do? Amazing Stun Break that synergies with Retribution(+Herald), gives a condi class a 1200 range gap closer and allows you to hit through blocks, a strong AoE CC, and Quickness for stomping/çondi pressure/sword pressure, and super speed to escape hairy situation/getting in there.

It really looks like Shiro is handling the bulk of the situations while Mallyx is there for the Resistance spam and occasional boon stripping(i.e. more niche situations).

Lets also mention that Mallyx would not be anywhere near as good without Retribution + Herald + Durability Runes.
Don’t you see how flawed this legend is? No one was saying that he’s completely useless, but that’s he’s a complete mess design-wise and he suffers in many areas where he shouldn’t, by virtue of being re-designed to be so much safer and tame.

Until you stop trolling with your terrible theory crafting you’re never going to be taken seriously. You should probably start playing Mallyx.

If Shiro really is doing all the work, why isn’t Glint being taken for condi builds? Hmm?

God you people are sad. Mallyx is only bad in some ridiculous theorycrafting. In practice he’s amazing. Start playing Mallyx on a regular basis and you’ll how amazing the Legend is.

I’m just so happy be watching people figure out Mallyx like I did awhile ago. Watching EU Condi Revs dominate, just validates everything and why no one is taking all the crying about Mallyx Seriously.

Sometimes I think that the only people that Mallyx are too busy enjoying mallyx to come here and complain.

lmaogg.7325:

Revenant need more cleanses imo. Especially Mallyx.

Mallyx is fine, with Demonic Defiance, FoN, and Pain Absorption

Linfang.1087:

Roy has not been on in nearly a month

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/members/Roy-Cronacher-1576/showposts

He’ll be back for the next expansion, or when Anet needs more money.

MakubeC.3026:

SoulstitchMMO.1396:

Why is negating all the condis not an option? FoN + Pain Absorption soaks all condis from around you and the Resistance you get is greater than the duration of the condis on you.

Not really. At least not for me. On paper Mallyx looks solid against condi builds, but in practice you don’t get enough energy to maintain the resistance and attack at the same time. So I either die from condis because I’m trying to attack or die from direct hits because I chose to have resistance.

Personal experience at least from playing against several necros.

Demonic Defiance is pretty effective

You can’t expect a community that gets farmed by 5 man groups to really put much stock in competitive play.

That being said I think this is a ridiculous thing to complain about. What resolution are you playing at where this is a problem for you?

My only beef is when I click the link and have to watch one of those crappy GW2 Rubi shows. When I click the link, I expect to be watching ESL or a countdown to ESL, not some crappy pve thing.

I can’t believe they haven’t introduced a wall buff or defender buff yet.

Why is negating all the condis not an option? FoN + Pain Absorption soaks all condis from around you and the Resistance you get is greater than the duration of the condis on you.

ShadowCatz.8437:

hellsmonument.4852:

its a beam that passes through foes not an aoe ability, tooltip states number of targets: 5.

A beam or a cone? To hit five player or NPCs in a narrow straight line could be tricky to get the most out of this skill.

It’s not a beam per se, as in it doesn’t hit all targets in 600 units, it hits all targets up to the target, but not past.

I would prefer if it were a 600 all the time ability instead of the clunkiness of having to target the back line. It won’t work without a target either.

Bearded.6485:

I’m not sure what your talking about. I just spent over an hour attacking NSPs ebg keep and they defended it pretty well. I don’t know, maybe your doing it wrong.

Did they defend it with Siege, or did they organize a team, run out, and destroy you?

Defending an objective still worthless and fruitless. All the advantages are to the attacker no matter how many times the solution is given to Anet. The fact that the answer to any defense of an objective is for the defenders to leave the objective and engage their aggressors shows Anet still doesn’t get it.

Why does anet keep the Karma Train so strong?

The fact that it’s an aoe ability needs to be better reflected.

Hammer 2 on walls… Just sayin’

Pompeia.5483:

Because, really, the elite is not worth it, even for the burning trait when we have torment via mace 1 & 3, axe 5, and UA in addition to crit procs.

Except popping EtD then popping all that damage there is serious bust there.

lmperdigao.2567:

Condi rev relies in torment to do most of the damage. Mobs don’t move as much as players.

I’d kick too.

That shows how ignorant you are.

For stationary groups you can spam Mace 2, even buffed with EtD, Sprinkled with Elemental Blast and Chaotic Release. That’s 8 stacks of burning, plus just spamming mace 2 till 70 energy = 20 stacks of torment.

Demonic Defiance > Condi

I believe Pain Absorption should be a Drain Skill, that does what it does now, on a pulsing system. Cost Perhaps 3 (you could then run Facet of Nature as well a PA). Your auto attacks would be strengthened via Bolstered Anguish, your personal toughness via Hardening Persistence traits and you could provide excellent protection against conditions while in Mallyx.

I could even see it being -5 but I definetly think this skill would feel better as an upkeep skill

Doggie.3184:

Immobilize and stun hurts a lot when running mallyx and herald together. Makes me feel helpless.

That’s because you’re not traited to get resistance per mallyx ability you use.

Just used PA against Half Baked during a guild mission, my group took no damage… i was able to absorb, and negate all his condi damage.

Tapioca.9062:

Exalted vendors sell viper recipes.

Where are these?

Where do you get the viper insignia from?

I generally run swiftness/regen/facet of nature, and then pop facet of nature before a fight.

YouTube Video
Build

Essentials

Basically start out in Glint, pop Facet of Nature, start fight out with Elemental Blast for Burning, Chill and Weakness. Followed by Chaotic Release for more Burn, and a Searing Fissure/Echoing Eruption for good measure.

If you need to pop your heal, then swap to Mallyx .Pop Embrace the Darkness, popping any cool downs you need, if you need to pool energy for a triple stack Unyielding Anguish then swap to Staff and use those cool downs, pop triple stack at ~70 Energy.

Enjoy

Malchior.5732:

tl;dr Mallyx is good if players don’t focus on you.

Mallyx is good even then provided you go carrion/scavenging, and use staff / EtD

Do dungeon tracks in spvp on someone you’re good with and amass Tomes of Knowledge.

Introduces both leveling (through masteries) and power creep (through new stat combos). Well played Anet, well played.

Use this build

You can swap between Elder’s Force and Soothing Bastion depending on what you need.

Burtnik.5218:

Someone can explain it with good reason?

Sword 4, Shield 5, Staff 3, Hammer 4, Sword 3. That’s why .