The trait is actually working as intended (25% chance to apply torment), but the tooltip is incredibly inaccurate.
That said, I don’t think it’s GM worthy with a 15s ICD. How does 10s sound?
At first I thought I was reading another thread by an accident, had to recheck whole thread to make sure I am not crazy.
Wat
15 seconds. For 1 stack of torment? Not even poison or confusion but torment? Srsly?
I mean huh so this trait’s tooltip was wrong all this time even after the recent change to it (becoming unblockable and ignoring blind)?
Also, as my experience told me so far all those “100% represent” guild proved to be such a waste of my precious gold with people turning around their own circles. So yeah, if you want to people to stick to your guild – work with them, there is nothing wrong with the system itself if people just secretly don’t like the guild where very few know what’s going (let’s face it, many people don’t like saying things straight thanks to mentality of avoiding problems and drama). Hell, even if they brought the guild system like you suggest people would just eventually leave for a better place, the way it is now kinda allows players to tell you “well, I don’t think it worked out pretty well, but at least I don’t completely leave your guild hoping for a better future and things to change”.
IMHO
Charged mists is not working as intended, not enough condi cleanse. I take it zerk staff is just a placeholder or there is some purpose? Also elder’s force over enhanced bulwark. CC Wars intensifies? Also try runes of defender instead of exuberance, would make you lots tankier and annoying.
What’s the purpose of the build? Frontline or roaming?
IMHO they should transfer that phase traversal unblockable thing to something else and leave phase traversal as gap-closer, like you said. Maybe rework impossible odds into some unique buff that takes 30-40 of your energy on activation.
OK, let’s forget other MMOs’ if you think that argument is stupid. How long you THINK it should take to fix bugs is irrelevant and does not indicate any level of incompetency in their QA department. You’re also indicating there is no attempt to fix these bugs, which you have no idea of.
Funny you think the ‘other games’ arguments are stupid … then use the ‘other games’ argument yourself, referring to this echo thing in GW1.
The fact is that reference to how other games handle things and durations and the experience we have with those games is VERY relevant, because in the end, it’s all software development and the tools and methods are not so dissimilar that experience with one MMO is completely removed for any other MMO. This in fact, happens in all kinds of industries ALL the time; measuring a company performance against an industry baseline. Software dev is no different and 1 year to fix a bug in not uncommon for MMO’s. It’s not even exceptional. Furthermore, it hasn’t even BEEN a year that Rev was released. The only problem here are the unreasonable expectations of players who have zero idea of what they are talking about.
It took them a couple of days to fix bugs that benefited the profession. Your argument is invalid.
Correct me if I’m wrong but I believe most people prefer group fights between 10 – 25 players give or take some. But the 40+ endless blob fest is starting to get old. It usually starts out with multiple tags on the map then enemy brings the blob then we combine into a giant blob then the next team. It’s the same thing every day. Is there a solution to this? Should there be a solution to this or is this really what the majority enjoys?
Just in case you haven’t noticed, WvW is all pointless and kinda always the same tape everyday. There is no real progression, there is nothing you lose and there is nothing you win.
The reason for the blobs is lack of leaders. Lots of leaders means lots of varying groups and teamwork. New players need to be taught and that takes time and leaders to do it. Though with the mergers the leaders have been cut in half or the mentality changed.
This is probably a most important point that is not discussed that often. Leaders and leadership.
For real? Last time I had separate group of 10 people ninja-capturing their towers somewhere away from blob fights, the comms would start kittening and cursing at us for not joining. Not to mention, most players tend to join bigger (known commanders) tags. “OH LUK SO MUCH RED POTENTIAL LEWT BEGS”.
I don’t think lack of leadership is a problem.
Never had any trouble playing revenant until they increased costs for phase traversal. Feeling kinda clumsy ever since, not to mention good mesmers and thieves would kite me 24/7 on WvW. Before that “nerf” I’d just get to them with phase traversal and if I do it now I’ll end up with only autoattacks and dodges available. And good players will know that.
yeah i stopped playing rev after that
I stopped playing the game completely. Feelsgoodman.
I am still playing it, I just hate how they take away mobility, sustain, damage and lowering Revenants’ QoL so easily without acknowledging that one could write a tome on the bugs and glitches this class has.
What server are you playing on? Want to see how 2 of my builds would work against yours.
I’m on Borlis Pass/Fort Aspenwood. But you and anyone else is welcome to 1v1 me in my guild hall arena as well.
I don’t really consider myself much of an expert Revenant, but I generally can win a duel unless it is against someone playing condi. Condi is really what hurts rev the most.
Meh, North America. Bet you also have troubles against good warrior since no retribution traitline
I don’t fight warrior too often, they’re few and far between in NA. Since Gunflame nerf, they’re almost non existent for roaming unless they’re running condi now. I haven’t personally ran in to any that I couldn’t beat in a 1v1 unless they were condi, but like I said, not often you run in to one in general now.
(By the way I’m the same person (Josh XT.6053), using my alt account because for some reason there is a 300 second flood control on my other account…)
I experience absolutely reverse situation, most of roamers I stumble upon either druids or warriors with some occasional condi mesmers. Warrior also takes a big piece of duellers I meet at eb/home border duells spots.
You think a year for bugs existing is unreasonable … I think the season veterans of this game and other MMO’s would disagree with you. That’s quite short actually.
Othe Free To Play MMOs. And even with that business model, they rarely let that many CLASS bugs go unfixed for long.
What server are you playing on? Want to see how 2 of my builds would work against yours.
I’m on Borlis Pass/Fort Aspenwood. But you and anyone else is welcome to 1v1 me in my guild hall arena as well.
I don’t really consider myself much of an expert Revenant, but I generally can win a duel unless it is against someone playing condi. Condi is really what hurts rev the most.
Meh, North America. Bet you also have troubles against good warrior since no retribution traitline
Never had any trouble playing revenant until they increased costs for phase traversal. Feeling kinda clumsy ever since, not to mention good mesmers and thieves would kite me 24/7 on WvW. Before that “nerf” I’d just get to them with phase traversal and if I do it now I’ll end up with only autoattacks and dodges available. And good players will know that.
Shiro: “That idiot Revenant over there is heading into that fractal gate with cleric armor and a staff. I think we might need to cut this interview short. Someone needs to stop him. What is he trying to do? Trap his team in there for 5 hours?”
Linked this quote to my friend cleric/staff revenant that he takes to fractals sometimes.
He got kinda mad, kek
Not everyone plays berserker nor should they, if people don’t like it then don’t group with them.
Shots fired at wrong direction, no zealous meta protectors found in my post.
Neither I am against it, nor I pick on people with the builds they are playing as long as they can contribute with it and it’s not so called “hardcore pve” aka raids. After all this is kind of people that make builds until some famous streamer succesfully copy-pastes and claims it as their own.
Shiro: “That idiot Revenant over there is heading into that fractal gate with cleric armor and a staff. I think we might need to cut this interview short. Someone needs to stop him. What is he trying to do? Trap his team in there for 5 hours?”
Linked this quote to my friend cleric/staff revenant that he takes to fractals sometimes.
He got kinda mad, kek
Well I can tell that I tried viper and it felt good against some classes, and absolutely useless against others. Productivity in blobs felt 404 too, too much condi-cleanse, so went to try hybrid with celestial stats instead, which I liked very much. You won’t shine on dps charts as zerk but IMHO the dps is still pretty high for this much tankiness.
Celestial rev is lightweight godmode. I find the damage to be just fine in full cele, though personally I swap in zerker trinks and weps since I feel I still have invulnerability level survival.
I dunno how important staff is for you, but I’ve done extensive testing with these new raid DPS golems and found mace has the highest mainhand dps in celestial if you take advantage of the ferocity through Roiling Mists (combination of condi+crits make for a ton of additive damage). It sounds loose at first, I thought mace would be unusable, but numbers don’t lie. So mace/axe and sword /shield could be a consideration if you aren’t leaning heavily on staff.
Well, first of all it’s survivability and CC. 3 and 4 will let you live more and cleanse some condis, while 5 will also give you a chance to put some confusion on your enemy if you interrupt them (with runes of perplexity). I like mace’s 1 but 2 and 3 are often useless since good players are used to avoiding it’s AoEs. Not to mention 3 is so slow, one could dodge it twice.
CC in combo with 2 and 3? Maybe, but it’s not like you manage to combo your opponent too often.
I found the celestial build to be a bit lacking in the damage department. I played mine as full celestial for a little bit and it didn’t ever die really but it didn’t put out enough damage to be worth while in my opinion.
Pretty heavy hitting and still survives pretty well for roaming.
Never had a problem with damage as long as it’s not celestial druids or celestial eles (haven’t seen eles in a while though), the only build I could 3v1 (and even 5v1 once on a camp) with ease thanks to it’s tricky way to deal damage people aren’t used to.
Huh, invocation marauder+zerk revenant? Feels like playing spvp again.
Runes of lyssa if you’re running herald. Then just faceroll their condis to insta cleanse them. You will get lots of boons and a necro with a deck of cooldowns.
Staff 5 is stupid and deserved the nerf. It was basically a 100 blades that ccs you and is pretty much instant cast and on top of all of that an evade. Staff was never meant to be a burst weapon, it’s more defensive/support in its playstyle anyway.
That being said, I agree it would be nice if they would split balance between all game modes, but for whatever reason they just refuse to do it.
Support, in what place exactly? The healing is a mockery, both 1 combo and 4 (LOL AT ITS RANGE) even if one revenant goes full kitten with cleric stats. Daze on two doesn’t even deplet much of CC bar.
I’ve been thinking on upcomming legendary armor recently, being raid-exclusive to be exact. Realized I’d give up and actually try raiding with people in my guild (when I am not tired enough to do it at 4:00 AM on weekend lmao) if I want one. I have all classes, lvl’d them to get at least distant knowledge about them but kinda hate multiclassing. So yeah…is Revenant even demanded in raids now as it used to be?
Bet that “facet of nature” boon bot thing aint gonna cut it any more, though…
Shield is crap, it was very tempty to unswap it even before the nerf since it could literally kitten YOU UP with it’s root unless you use it to block direct hits and then cancel with holstering your weapon. And those nerfs to staff….care to demote energy costs at least? What the actual kitten, how am I even supposed to use utility skills on Shiro after I rotate those skills. And Jade Winds…sometimes I forget there is even such a thing and when I don’t and use it I often find myself with just an autoattack. GG,
Inb4staff3nerf.
P.S I don’t find axe as an offhand very bad though, good gapcloser plus offers a lot for mind games. Not to mention 5 is actually a somewhat defensive skills if you know what you’re doing.
I like this game, yet each time I log in, I find myself bored and wandering around without any purpose so I decided to try looking for a guild I could play with and see if it helps. So yeah, doesn’t matter if it’s big or small(not new guilds) as long as there are players playing in any time zone and it’s relatively friendly towards guild newcomers. Got TS3, so it’s not a problem either.
Just my two cents, thanks Anet for putting that League profession achievement in ascension. People playing classes they never played just for that achievement in diamond/ruby are truly fabulous and and bring up an image of flowers field, grown up on a graveyard.
kittening seriously. Some people reached other tier of Year of Ascension by the time they are ruby/diamond already and play classes they can’t on a competitive level. Whos kittening idea was to add that achievement to the category.
What bugs me is I was cursing at this build for a while on WvW, yet I knew devs would give no kitten about it (lol, just like the whole wvw in general). And now I see the same stupid bullkitten running around in spvp
I’m also concerned about legendary armor once it becomes available and not only because I don’t get along with people easily. Tbh I am often on a short fuse and if somebody within a guild is rude I usually reply with the same coin doubled and…oh those representation requirements and so much drama around it, what if I simply don’t like that tag or any tag at all? Or just forgot to represent on my other character? “It’s okay we understood but I hope we won’t see something like this happening next time?” <—- that was enough for me to leave one.
Aside from that, even if I bothered with finding a guild there is another problem – my time zone. At least on EU, I can’t simply find a “living guild” there. All guilds I joined so far remained shut and it felt very ghostly almost like playing alone despite there were lots of people on guild roster. And NA is too laggy for me (which is sad, I’ve got sooo many friends I used to play another MMO with playing on NA server). Last time I checked it was 400 ping which is totally unplayable since I aside from casual PvE I spend a lot of time in sPvP.
So yeah, it would be kind of cool if we could contribute to legendary armor progression without being forced into a guild or whatever. I understand that whole thing around raids was built on it but at least something to smoothen it for us solo players
That bullkitten has been there in WvW for a long time. What bugs me about it is that you can play defensive and still win 1v1 fight (and be quite an annoyance in some TFs too). It’s very confusing (and not just because of NaN NanN stacks of confusion) and dodgy build.
But the matter of the fact is, why do I see so many condi mesmers running around on diamond/ruby while I only encountered one d/d thief yesterday.
Because Condi mes still has portal? and team utility like Moa.
And thief has what?
You’ve just answered your original question
Nope, I think you need more reading exercises.
I am referring to the condi spam.
Well, they don’t usually take deadly arts so that makes… constant bleeding and maybe some poison/torment once in 30 seconds? Not to mention you have to be close to your target to apply that. Ah and yeah you also sacrifice two utilities for two additional condis.
So much bleed, much condi, much wow. After all bleeding is such a strong condition…
That bullkitten has been there in WvW for a long time. What bugs me about it is that you can play defensive and still win 1v1 fight (and be quite an annoyance in some TFs too). It’s very confusing (and not just because of NaN NanN stacks of confusion) and dodgy build.
But the matter of the fact is, why do I see so many condi mesmers running around on diamond/ruby while I only encountered one d/d thief yesterday.
Because Condi mes still has portal? and team utility like Moa.
That bullkitten has been there in WvW for a long time. What bugs me about it is that you can play defensive and still win 1v1 fight (and be quite an annoyance in some TFs too). It’s very confusing (and not just because of NaN NanN stacks of confusion) and dodgy build.
But the matter of the fact is, why do I see so many condi mesmers running around on diamond/ruby while I only encountered one d/d thief yesterday.
