Guild Wars 2

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I found Vengeful Hammers extremaly efficient at tagging all stuff in Labirynth. Almost as efficient as Gaurd’s Staff #1.

Top kek.

/15facets

Still pretty good choice, considering you can easily bump it to 3-4s duration.

I see these Runes being quite amazing on Mesmer with mantras.

These are absolutely awesome. Especially for Ventari.

It’s a fun thing I observed.

When there was no Herald, people were complaining about Energy costs on weapons. When Herald became avalible, complaints stopped. Now people have to play Core Revenant again a bit and this shows up again. Well, we all know that while pretty much every Legend besides Glint requires a lot of energy management, Glint to perform decent does not. It will be a problem in the future.

As for your question – without Energy cost, all your weapon cooldowns go up. Want Unrelenting Assault on 25s cooldown? Yes, me neither. Embrace it.

Personally, I have two Revenants now, female Charr and female Sylvari. I’m still not sure which one I prefer – while in terms of animations (dat Mace #3…), lore and general feel I prefer Charr, I’d like to experience the story of HoT with Sylvari and after 3 years of playing a Charr, it’s nice to have some options in the Wardrobe which don’t clip.

If that Legendary Armor looks good on Charr, I’m going back. If not, Charr will be for PvP prob.

So now Shambling Horrors don’t degenerate health, but have only 25s duration.
Seems like someone was afraid of armies of minions zerging players ;>

Burtnik.5218:

Rym.1469:

Artaz.3819:

TL;DR nothing beats D/D Ele. We’ll see how Chrono/Scrapper does after some HoT time.

Nothing beats D/D Ele? Well, just a random example out of many… http://www.twitch.tv/rym69/v/19304443

Whats up with that camera? …

Mom was shaking it because of all the amazing plays on screen. Sorry ;>

Artaz.3819:

TL;DR nothing beats D/D Ele. We’ll see how Chrono/Scrapper does after some HoT time.

Nothing beats D/D Ele? Well, just a random example out of many… http://www.twitch.tv/rym69/v/19304443

nacario.9417:

Looking forward for the shortened utube version

I think I will record it on Friday or Saturday after all. I’d like it to be up-to-date and have some actual gameplay to look at, not only old archived VoDs and a website.

I will also split this into series containing short videos on i.e. Revenant Basics, Legends/Builds explained, Revenant Tricks, How to fight against a Revenant etc. etc.

I’d rather point my finger at Scrapper rather than Power Revenant when we’re talking about “replacing” DD Ele which may not happen in the first place at all.

But I don’t deny the fact that you might be right, Herald has one thing vanilla Revenant lacks and what is needed in current PvP – “oh kitten” button.
Many aspects of Revenant are still IMO work in progress and we haven’t seen the release changes either.

I shall report every filthy zerker meta exploiter I meet from now on ;^o

• http://www.twitch.tv/rym69/v/21777383 VoD Twitch link for people who couldn’t make it.

Discussed topics are visible in the left corner.

Be aware that a lot of the talk about Legends+Specializations is just introducement, so if you have already played quite a bit of Revenant, I’d suggest you to skip to latter parts (after around 2:14:00 mark) for couple interesting synergies, build crafting, VoD analyzing, tips and general after-party talk.

Since the whole thing took nearly 4 hours, I will try to make bonus, way shorter and scripted video I will upload to YouTube and record off-stream tomorrow.

Music in the background comes from both Nightfall and Factions camapaigns of Guild Wars 1.

Going live in 10 minutes at: http://www.twitch.tv/rym69

List of topics:

• Overview
  * Revenant Mechanics
  * Revenant Weapons
  * Shiro + Devastation
  * Mallyx + Corruption
  * Jalis + Retribution
  * Ventari + Salvation
  * Herald Overview
  * Glint Legend (Dragon Stance) and Herald traits
  * Synergies
  * Builds
  * How to fight a Revenant
  * Revenant in the future
  * Q&A

nacario.9417:

Will this be uploaded somewhere for later watch

Depends how it goes, but I plan on splitting it into parts and uploading to YouTube.

Twaddlefish.6537:

I’ll try and catch this later Rym, I finish work at 5pm so won’t be able to make the livestream!

Thanks for the kind words, hope I made some kind of sense about the Revenant. I don’t keep an eye on the forums as much as I should do, especially considering I’m switching mains to Revenant haha!

You did good job trying to answer everything and to everyone, but 1 hour is simply not enough with so many questions everywhere. I will see when will I start and post will be updated, so you might even make it!

Hey,

Just a quick announcement – today around 4-5 PM GMT I will be doing Revenant Overview on stream and Q&A about it (mainly from PvP/raiding PvE POV), including BWE3 footage and then upload it to YouTube probably. Link here:

• http://www.twitch.tv/rym69

If you are interested or have some questions, feel free to come by. After playing for over 110h+ over all 4 Revenant BWEs I feel quite comfortable with the profession and would consider myself quite informed, having done multiple feedback threads and posts in the past.

I played multiple builds as Revenant, ranging from pure healing builds, through condition, hybrids to power ones in both PvP and Vale Guardian encounter and I will try to do my best in this little overview, so people who yet haven’t decided if they like the profession or are just curious how it works can make decision easier on launch day.

Also, I would like to say RPGShack did a great job yesterday, basically squeezing whole profession into one hour ! I saw a lot of interest and questions he simply didn’t have time to answer, so I decided to make more unofficial version.
I will update this post once I go live.

Cheers,
Rym

You people are going crazy. It’s 2 days before xpac releases, it’s obvious they don’t have much time and won’t be posting left and right.

Honestly speaking, right now, I wouldn’t bother with pure condition Revenant for PvE dungeons.

Other kinds of PvE? Maybe, Condi builds in general have better time being solo in PvE and I saw it is even more true in HoT maps when you run around alone.

For me obvious pick is Kalla Scorchrazor if we’re to wander into Charr-themed expansion. She has greatsword people adore, she’s major character, she’s dead, she’s a hero of Charr, she’s a leader (Paragon-like Spec). Everything needed.

Next shots would be either Pyre Fierceshot (Ranger-like Legend) or Bonfazz Burntfur (Elementalist-like Legend).

Of course, Master Togo because everyone desperately wants Ritualist back, including me. No-brainer.

Blimm Legend would be interesting, as well as Talon Silverwing.

Mobs focusing healers was a theme of Guild Wars 1. Some utilizing this tactic (not bosses!) would be interesting addition.

You absolutely don’t need a staff as second weapon set. Proven by Celestial builds for example.

People refer to Vale Guardian as whole “Raid”. It doesn’t work that way.

Your regular Sword Revenant build has rather low AoE damage and while it’s cool and high DPS for single target, what happens if your next Boss spawns a lot of adds? Yea, your old Staff Ele or Epidemic Necro might be much better than Revenant with small cleave.

Wait two weeks, we will see how it stands after new elite specs are released.

Reapers best dungeon solo ez mode inc Kappa. Here’s your justification for dungeon money nerf.

Funny fact I saw, Druids start PvP match with 100% filled Astral Force.

witcher.3197:

Burtnik.5218:

Yolo move is to run 2 melee sets when sword/x+hammer is superior. Regards to double melee freebags i have met on my way.

Yeah when you are being bursted by 2-3 people and glint is on CD please tell me how your super slow ranged weapon with 1 single evade helps you survive

Don’t underestimate Hammer. Staff isn’t really super defensive set either, it’s more utility based. Good player with Hammer can really do a lot of burst and mess in teamfight, much more than Sword #3.

Excuse me, but you sound a bit like a person who watched a lot of streams and Phantaram playing and think you already know everything about Revenant. You don’t.

Only if it was melee. Yeah, melee Longbow sounds legit.

No point theorycrafting. Wait till game comes out and how it actually plays. Test stuff by yourself and copy pasting builds causes flu.

Fiery Dragon Sword ftw.

TheLastNobody.8319:

Hey guys what’s going (looks in thread) JACKSON! Plane! Now! We’re going to the shiver peaks! Nobody ever goes to the shiver peaks.

+1

As I requested, Flameseeker Prophecies + Crystal Hibernation should entomb you inside actual crystal for the duration.

I’m farming for the precursor for it right now. I don’t really care about the effects, it’s Legendary I actually like and since Shield is so good and universal, I want option to swap stats on it.

But I haven’t noticed many effects for Revenant, if any. But some good were suggested, they might make into the game.

Besides occassional ground clipping, I don’t mind the silver hoverboard.

So I was looking through the Mesmer traits to see what the meta is probably going to be (PvP wise) and I came across the kind of trait that makes me reluctant to invest a lot of time in this game.

“Prismatic Understanding” – Increased stealth duration for Mesmer skills. Gain random boons when you are in stealth
Completly passive and overpowered in 1v1 situation. This kind of trait is cancer.

“Time Marches On” – You move 25% faster. The duration of incoming movement-impairing conditions is reduced by 25%.
Again, essentially passive so when bads randomly cleanse but fail to actually cleanse anything meaningful they gain passive condition duration decrease which makes it harder to punish for wasting their cleanses. Dogkitten trait.
ANET Please for the love of god stop designing traits like this, they literally ruin the game

I would disable whole Mesmer.

There’s not much I can learn killing couple mobs what I wouldn’t know already from 120+ hours spent with Revenant in PvP. Plus I have to start using my tomes, as my third stack is going up in numbers already.

So yeah, I will do Charr Personal Story as I always enjoy this part and skip other boring kitten, boosting Rev to 80.

I’d say that Revenant is amazing for tanking. A lot of “oh crap” buttons, phleora of damage reductions and CC, boons, good heals, good damage, ton of blocks and what not.

I played Tank Rev on Vale Guardian and was doing absolutely all right.

Fade.1743:

Rym.1469:

Nephziel.6053:

I’ve got berserker.
Even if its not used in Raids I still have whole core game content and fractals to do.

I’m also sure since the bosses have timer there will be need for higher damage.
Also what I’ve noticed so far. If the timer goes boss will 1-shot you be a berserker of full soldier.

Vale Guardian won’t one-shot you if you have ~2600 armor or higher.

If you hit an enrage timer, you’ve messed up enough on the fight that you better be within the last few percentages or everyone is about to die anyway. One-shot or not a proper enrage timer should kill you faster than you can feasibly stay alive.

Ah, mind me, didn’t read that properly and skipped “enrage” part. That’s absolutely right.

Nephziel.6053:

I’ve got berserker.
Even if its not used in Raids I still have whole core game content and fractals to do.

I’m also sure since the bosses have timer there will be need for higher damage.
Also what I’ve noticed so far. If the timer goes boss will 1-shot you be a berserker of full soldier.

Vale Guardian won’t one-shot you if you have ~2600 armor or higher.

I have Knight and Cleric ready with couple leftover pieces of Berserker and Cavalier here and there.

Twitch chat accepts any challange.

Hammer is better if you tend to +1 more and want burst, Staff is better for long fights on nodes.

10 Bearstaff Druids

#newmeta

https://youtu.be/N--gCdjIMTI

princode.2750:

Map awareness?…I would say who can rush boss the faster…most of us had already express the dislike to this map. Sh can ready be a fun new pvp map but developer choose the pve focus route in pvp map. Anet should ready change the person/team who is designing the pvp map from skyhammer to spirit watch and now strong hold all fail map

Rush boss…
Have you even tried playing it against or with any decent players whatsoever in like past 4 Stronghold beta events, or are you stuck in April?
Two people can hold off 5 rushing lord right at start and vast majority of my games in last two BWEs, even soloqueueing, was more than 10-12 minutes long.

Stop whining, start playing.

I heard in Part 2 he wants to proof E=mc2 is a lie, but needs more time to get sufficient evidence. May take another week.

Indeed, animations of both Autoattack and #3 Staff look terrible on Charr.

mistsim.2748:

not sure about u guys but I don’t wanna play against immortal necros. theyre not adding dire because of necros.

I think Necros would be the least problematic of Dire builds, tbh.