Flee.5602 Posted May 14, 2020 Share Posted May 14, 2020 I think the shield weapon skills need to be changed. Especially for the fifth skill, you can't just stay in place. (I think this skill should be movable, its protection bubble should be bigger, can protect more teammates) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Virdo.1540 Posted May 14, 2020 Share Posted May 14, 2020 Oh really? Ive never thought about that. Jokes aside, imo shield 4 is even more terrible than the root block.the shield abilities should cleanse condis on their own, not just when "hardening persistence" is taken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zaret.1450 Posted May 14, 2020 Share Posted May 14, 2020 We have been asking for changes in the shield for ages now and it is still this bad , and not happy with it we keep getting nerfs to other weapons like hammer so i think they just want to erase revs from gw2 , even when it is a class that comes with pof.Well lets hope we get some goodbthings next expansion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Za Shaloc.3908 Posted May 14, 2020 Share Posted May 14, 2020 Relatively speaking, I find shield feels better than it did pre-patch. At the same time, the damage from offhand sword feels more necessary with damage in general being lower. The 1s extra prot duration is quite nice on it, tbh. At this point, I just wish shield 4 was more reliable as a ranged ally heal. Rev gets all this mechanically janky stuff like Ventari's tablet, healing orbs, and shield 4 that make it hard to actually properly support allies in a lot of situations. Not to mention shield 4 still gets destroyed by enemy aegis last I checked, despite it being "unblockable." Not to mention the pathing issues it has on return. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meri.9187 Posted May 14, 2020 Share Posted May 14, 2020 Shield on its own is fine, it didn't take the same kind of nerfs every other weapon did. It looks almost too good on condi herald, but I think that's much more easily attributed to the ridiculous sustain and resistance uptime you get with condi herald- not to shield. Shield is, however, not great on straight power herald. This is simply due to the role power herald has been forced into in PvP, making sword a no brainer pick. The nerfs to mainhand sword as well as the blanket damage nerfs only make it even more necessary to take sword offhand. In addition, with damage reduced across the board, the value of a 3 second block is comparatively less than it used to be, considering you'll be avoiding less damage. Given that power herald has slowly turned into a gank class reliant on quickness bursts (aka, landing ridiculous damage before your opponent can even react), it's going to take a lot of changes to make shield viable again, and the fact that the other offhand choice (sword) has a skill that still nukes people for ridiculous damage altogether too fast, I don't see shield ever being meta for power herald again unless sweeping changes are made. I miss the days of sw/sh herald in PvP.WvW though, you can take shield just fine and in many cases I would recommend it with Hardening Persistence, especially when you consider how strong conditions are in WvW compared to PvP. Still, a grand majority of people who even bother to roam on power herald in WvW (most have jumped ship by now) prefer sword due to its damage. And it'll be that way unless we have another rework- until then, no matter how good of a defensive weapon you make Shield, Sword offhand will still be the pick of most because you can't crit someone for 9k with a shield with an extremely quick casting attack, can you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flee.5602 Posted May 15, 2020 Author Share Posted May 15, 2020 @"ventusthunder.5067" said:My proposal is to reform the shield weapon skills. It is useless now. The shield weapon was forgotten. It's not a comparison with a sword. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justine.6351 Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 I don't think I have ever even tried to equip shield on my rev, not even to see what it felt like. Why? Because the trait that auto-proced shield 5 was obnoxious enough to steer me away from it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taobella.6597 Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 i like shield i use it on con rev and ventari rev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitomi Shadowleaf.5629 Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 I used shield for like a week on the launch of HoT when I didnt know what Dps meant and though pve tanking in the open world was a good idea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jobber.6348 Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 Shield is actually not bad, but it has to compete with OH Sword and OH Axe, which makes it very clunky to use on most Revenant builds. A good QoL though, is to make Shield 4 an AoE 400 range pulse which heals for decent amount and applies Protection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shao.7236 Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 Shield's good since Sword 2 got reworked and Mallyx got transfers. Could be slightly reworked in the favor of team plays, but nothing otherwise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zaret.1450 Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 I think the herald itself should be reworked completely with renegade , make renegade completely focused on healing and suport and renegade completely focusedvon dmg.In fact it would be easy , just give herald an alacriti upkeep and make shield skills a bit stronger ( being able to move while blocking or having a block that pulses heal and cant be affected by for example VG blues would be good ) now change the gm trait that gives dmg when using upkeeps to something that increases the number of boons your upkeep gives and herald now is a strong support ,make it so it doesnt maintain the boons perma or its restricted to 6boons at a time and that works.For renegade you could make a trait that gives you a %dmg increase per summon you have up instead of the alac trait and you increase the dmg of both condi and power renegade , then tune down a bit the condi dmg a little bit if needed and done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
otto.5684 Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 I have not been sPvPimy much, but condi rev does use it. It is solid in some situations in OW. But ya... both skills are poor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitomi Shadowleaf.5629 Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 @zaswer.5246 said:I think the herald itself should be reworked completely with renegade , make renegade completely focused on healing and suport and renegade completely focusedvon dmg.In fact it would be easy , just give herald an alacriti upkeep and make shield skills a bit stronger ( being able to move while blocking or having a block that pulses heal and cant be affected by for example VG blues would be good ) now change the gm trait that gives dmg when using upkeeps to something that increases the number of boons your upkeep gives and herald now is a strong support ,make it so it doesnt maintain the boons perma or its restricted to 6boons at a time and that works.For renegade you could make a trait that gives you a %dmg increase per summon you have up instead of the alac trait and you increase the dmg of both condi and power renegade , then tune down a bit the condi dmg a little bit if needed and done.I like this idea, Alacrity fits better with Glint's theme and kit anyway and diviner's gear would be more useful cuz of all the boons glint provides. Kalla could get a more dps focused f3 that pushes condi damage (yes IK alacrity helps with condi too) or focus on dps with f2. The biggest issue with glint atm is that while it does provide boons it doesn't provide enough to put it into raids while alacrity alone is enough to put Kalla into raid meta as power. Edit: This will probably change if we ever get a stats like +Condition damage / + Expertise / + Concentration which will make Glint extinct in PvE in its current state outside of Open World. Please note I am look strictly at PvE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CutesySylveon.8290 Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 Shield has been terrible for ages. It's only somewhat useful as a condition cleanse weapon with the trait but it's still a 'Use unblockable here' weapon with the root. Condi herald takes it because there's not a better option when you have axe in the other set. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phokus.8934 Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 Shield 4 needs an overhaul.Shield 5 needs to lose the root and pulse protection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buran.3796 Posted May 21, 2020 Share Posted May 21, 2020 @phokus.8934 said:Shield 4 needs an overhaul.Shield 5 needs to lose the root and pulse protection.With PvP teams running up to 3 condi Revs at the moment and people asking for further nerfs in both power Herald, condi Herald and condi Renegade in the forums you can't even dream with those changes to take place, as much as I agree with you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zaret.1450 Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 What i wonder is why they cry about revs when there are guardians and warriors wich are 10 times stronger than revs .Even if revs were strong in pvp i dont get why cant anet balance shield so its not a kitten weapon , at least in pve , or why they dont fix the bugs revs have . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buran.3796 Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 @zaswer.5246 said:What i wonder is why they cry about revs when there are guardians and warriors wich are 10 times stronger than revs .The only place in which those classes are better than Rev is in instanced PvE and (only in the case of Guardian) WvW. Rev overall has a strong place across all the game modes at the moment. From best solo PvE character, to 3-4 viable builds in PvP, decent roamer and one of the back bones of the WvW zergs. The complaints come mostly from other PvP classes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thornwolf.9721 Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 @Buran.3796 said:@zaswer.5246 said:What i wonder is why they cry about revs when there are guardians and warriors wich are 10 times stronger than revs .The only place in which those classes are better than Rev is in instanced PvE and (only in the case of Guardian) WvW. Rev overall has a strong place across all the game modes at the moment. From best solo PvE character, to 3-4 viable builds in PvP, decent roamer and one of the back bones of the WvW zergs. The complaints come mostly from other PvP classes.I don't know I've been a rev main for a while, and have been taking a break from it. My spellbreaker sure seems to poop on and or bully them right out of the way, and guardians seem to be better at fighting honestly with all their gimicks.. But this is what happens when you make a jack-of-all-trades class and then try to push roles onto it while not understanding it. We need more core weapons, and we need weapon reworks.... I miss old Off-handsword..... good days blocking with that wep.I hate how rev has become... well this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aeolus.3615 Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 @Buran.3796 said:@phokus.8934 said:Shield 4 needs an overhaul.Shield 5 needs to lose the root and pulse protection.With PvP teams running up to 3 condi Revs at the moment and people asking for further nerfs in both power Herald, condi Herald and condi Renegade in the forums you can't even dream with those changes to take place, as much as I agree with you.yet condi rev is far weaker than before patch >_> but there were better gimicks to carry at that time, reason not many were paying atention to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buran.3796 Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 @Aeolus.3615 said:yet condi rev is far weaker than before patch >_> but there were better gimicks to carry at that time, reason not many were paying atention to it.I think that power Herald is still the strongest Rev build in PvP; condi Rev (both Herald and Renegade) are having fun time due they pair very well with support Firebrands and Eles (or even Necros) and are fantastic at the central node. But they move slow and can't rotate the map or +1 in the same way as power Herald. And power Herald, despite being weak to conditions, has huge sustain thanks to the nerfs to the power skills across other classes and has a large pressence in teamfights thanx to Jade Winds/ Elemental Blast/Chaotic release and Surge of Mist. You can rotate between those four for ages forcing foes to spent blocks and evades or cc them in long chains. Warrior has a favourable matchup against Revs? That's fine, but you barely see one in the AT tournaments... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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