Other than bringing dishonor on you all for forgetting to buy runes and sigils for a whole month; what should I try to do better for next month's Engineer challenge!?
Aight, as a dedicated Rev main heres some stuff I noticed: You ran Condi Weapons (Mace/Axe and Shortbow) in a Power Trait setup, so obviously they wont do jack. Centaur also very much is a pure support option that is for supporting allies, so yeah, again no wonder you didnt click with it. revenant lives off of adaptability, both in the legends and in the traits. Its why Celestial Rev is pretty much king in Open World, you can do everything from healer to buffer to massive DPS to just flat-out refusing to die. Also, and I noticed that a lot, I dont think you ever triggered your Quickness in Dragon stance on herald in the footage you showed. Heralds Dragon stance can be fairly high APM if instead of flipping on the 7 8 9 you flip on Facet of nature and Elite, resulting in the required 6 pips to give you quickness, as well as letting you pop the 7 8 9 off cooldown for buffs and damage. Lastly, and most importantly, Rev traitlines are synergistic beyond compare. It revolves a lot around giving yourself Boons or inflicting specific conditions (Mainly Vuln and Torment) which then triggers other traits. tl;dr I dont want to sound insulting although it probably does but I havent been able to come up with better wording, but it just feels like you didnt read your traits and weaponskills more than just briefly glancing over them, and just equipped what you hadnt used yet.
I appreciate the feedback from a Rev main! I definitely have gotten a lot better about actually absorbing information from the classes I'm playing as I've continued the challenges through the year, and I agree I could have done so much better for this. It's actually always been one of my weakest points in MMO's in general is failing to really grasp the concepts behind skills and builds, rather I just learn what I need to press when, which is part of the reason I started this challenge as well. It's not really that I failed to read them, it can just take me a long time to fully grasp weaponskills and traits. tl;dr not insulted, you're right about what you said, appreciate the time ya took!
vindicator main here, the apm can get incredibly fast if you build around quickness. the strong point about rev skills is that in exchange for the energy system limiting you, all the utility skills have very low cooldown so if you swap legends at the right time you can non stop use skills.
Being locked in utility skills always felt comfortable for me, I manage to become good as a revenant because I did not waste time changing and trying out skills, trying to adapt different situations with differet utilities. I know its weird for most people, what can I say :)
The thing I like about revs is just how flexible the whole class is. You can provide permanent alacrity with a renegade, you can do perma quickness and one of the best supports in the game as a quickness herald (best dps support in the game hands down), you can have a very potent herald healer which can let you carry groups like its nothing, you can dps like crazy on a vindi and vindi is also a very good healer in wvw. Cele revs are basically indestructible in open world PVE. Doesn't even matter which spec you play, they are all going to feel extremely tanky and survivable because all three specs have easy access to either quickness or alacrity, and each of these classes can roll with perma protection, making you, along with some nutty damage reduction passives one very tanky MF. Basically you have a build for every occasion, any need in the game. There's few classes that come close to rev from this point of view.
That's a really good perspective. I need to go back and play rev in PvE sometime with some actual tuned builds, because I don't think I really nailed down a 'great' build myself in this challenge!
Hey I'm curious, does necro offer some of the same flexibility in massive tankiness and damage, as Rev does? Or is Rev on another level compared to Necro?
@@browsergameshub it depends how you look at it but if you take pve context into perspective then I would say rev is on another level simply because it is heavy armor compared to light armor and rev tankines does not rely on shroud as a necro would (way squishier outside shroud) but rather has the tankines built into the build and is easier to control. Saying that, you need to first get a grasp of the energy system.
@@syzxgamingx of course (: I don’t mean it in a bad way.. but especially warriors are so proud of their class and I admire it.. but I also want to understand 🙈
"A lot was riding on Vindicator." OOOHHHHH baby..... I started on Warrior, rotated over to Willbender, and then to Vindi/Soulbeast. I can't decide which I like more so I flip-flop constantly, but Vindicator scratches so many "high mobility big smash" itches.
the cymbal monkey comment spoke to me as a warrior main. sometimes i just wanna go unga bunga, and smash keys in a specific order like im at an arcade in the 90's
Funny, but I found the Herald the best for me. The idea is to keep swiftness and might before the combat, unleashing them at the beginning (gaining passive bonuses from a Draconic Echo), and keeping pressure with these and blind/stunbreaker skills when required. It sits really well with condi build (Mallyx) rotation. I wish I could have Herald skills with a Vindicator dodge. The main Revenant issue is a lack of stability and energy upkeep that could be critical if you need a stun break immediately, but do not have enough energy - and some stun breakers require time to take effect (Pain Absorption for example). Another Reve problem is the lack of melee condi weapons. Mace is way too slooooow against a fast opponent (I hate thiefs).
Hey fair enough. As a solo PvE player my motto is if it works for you and it's fun for you, do it. I don't blame you about the thieves. Mesmers and Thieves I just don't even have the energy to fight, especially in WvW, LOL. Hopefully the next weapon after spear brings rev some more melee condi.
watched video, the only thing that baffled me the most is the fact he doesn't change the stances too often, its what brings out the big quick apm plays and gives the giga drop of energy a refill /cry
I had a similar experience but in the opposite way haha, Started with Vindicator and loved it, probably my favorite open world build, partly thanks to sigil of stamina, it lets you just spam dodge against regular open world mobs which was so much fun, definitely recommend trying it! I tried Herald afterwards only to find out its so much more boring and went back, totally agree with you on the Dragon stance, Still have to unlock Renegade.
Glad I'm not the only one then! Also yesss Sigil of Stamina would be great for open world PvE. I'm sure you can max out your frequent flier miles with that thing!
Greatsword herald is really fun right now. You need SotO weapon mastery to use GS on Herald and I must say, I have found my new main. Dragon Stance is really good too for boons and also extra damage.
@@syzxgamingx someone could def answer better than I can since I am also quite new to herald. I usually keep them up most of the fight but when I need to do some extra damage, I use them then repeat.
Keeping the passive effect, then activate will activate quickness for you and your party, on top of shared boons like fury, protection, might, regen, swiftness, and drops condi's
My funnest Vindi build is dual power GS with stamina sigil for endurance gain on weapon swap and trait for big dodge damage. Spam the profession mechanic button for extra energy, lather, rinse, repeat & profit!
Someone else finding herald odd satisfies me a lot. I run a Jalis/Kalla Rev on wvw and some open world and i simply cant get used to "press button have boons but do t use more than 2skills or else!"
Yes! It's not only limiting your active utility skill usages but it feels punishing for you to be active with your weapon too. I'm glad you feel that way as well, thought I might be crazy
Your project is very cool. I did something similar, and my conclusion was that I like my main power Berserker so much that all I liked in the game were "variations" of it: Soulbeast, Reaper and my second Warrior as a condi. I have a similar feeling to what you described about Revenant, and I always think that Vindicator will be the way out. But I still don't have access to Vindicator, so I ended up insisting a little more on Herald and as soon as I discovered the hammer and how to use Glint I've been having a lot of fun. I'm an illustrator, so fashion is very important to my gameplay. And it's really strange how difficult it was to find an aesthetic for my Revenant. I think you should consider this, combat is a lot about aesthetics. One last thing, I still don't have access to Bladesworn, and I believe it will be my preferred specialization along with Berserker. I was curious why you didn't like Bladesworn, would you mind telling me?
I agree with you on finding an aesthetic for Revenant difficult, I kinda had the same thing. I liked my new look, but I still don't *love* it. I also agree combat is a lot about aesthetics. Part of the reason that while I love my Deadeye thief from what short time I've played them, I find myself not wanting to go back often because it's just sit there and shoot a rifle. As far as Bladesworn, it's biggest downfall for me is the lack of weapon swap. I've always been a big weapon swapper, and with bladesworn you have just the one weapon, and then the gunsaber. The Gunsaber bursting is cool and I had a lot of fun at first, but sometimes it just feels very tedious to lock in, wait for the full charge and then unleash it. On a more minor note, I also am pretty disappointed that the 1-5 animations for the gunsaber are all standard greatsword animations. The elite burst skills are different and very cool though. The actual mechanics of it are pretty solid though, I don't think it's even a 'Bad' spec, just not my cuppa tea.
I love this series, for the longest time I couldn’t get into guardian, but your guardian video inspired me to give the ol blue boy another go and I have been having a lot of fun. I’m a longtime warrior player as well, and I’d be interested to see your take on ranger specifically the Untamed. When you described the play style you gravitate towards I definitely think the untamed marries the the hard hitting of the warrior with the hyper aggressiveness of the willbender that I think would provide an interesting experience. I would recommend mace/mace or hammer for the max unga-bunga.
I'm glad you enjoyed and it gave you a second breath of life for Guardian! I'm definitely gonna give that a go when I do ranger! I've actually played a good bit of soulbeast Longbow/GS in WvW so was planning on most likely leaning heavily into Untamed in my ranger month!
I love the way revenants abilities look and feel, but i hate the fact that i can't change the utilities. And it get repetitive really fast. That's why I stick with my ranger. It's one of the classes with the most weapon varieties and the different pets abilities, combined with the big diferentiation between specs, make it feels like a new profession for me whenever I'm bored.
Ranger is a lot of fun. I've always enjoyed Longbow ranger in WvW for some reason it just feels nice to defend from the walls with a bow able to rain arrows down at will. No other reason than pure VIBES lol
Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it! Yeah, even just last night I was swapping stuff on my warrior so I had more defiance break instead of a banner. Utility swapping is just too helpful!
I log into my Vindicator fairly often and the beginning of this video was killing me. It's definitely the adhd spec. I'm starting to add more celestial gear for better healing when I swap to Saint Viktor. Should be a lot of fun in metas and WvW.
Man you'll love Engineer. Coming from a warrior main I felt the same about Revenant, kinda okay-ish but not that's fun. Then I tried Engineer. Already have way too much playtime on this Engineer, every spec is awesome both for solo and group content. Even core Engineer is fun as hell 😂
I'm hoping so! I honestly already know I will a bit, as once upon a time I was doing a (now discontinued) Engineer permadeath leveling run on a free to play account when I first fired up this channel last year, and I did really enjoy just the core Engi even when leveling. I'm really excited to try Holosmith and Scrapper.
@@syzxgamingx you'll have a blast man! Scrapper is hella good for open World and both PvP modes, Holosmith is great at PvP mostly. And Mechanist is good pretty much everywhere 🤣
Yeah unfortunately a byproduct of their ancient engine. CPU optimization is awful. To this day my biggest pet peeve. Even my new CPU I built i just leave player model limit on lowest when i go to do events.
I found this series when I looked in on your Willbender video. I really look forward to your others. I have played almost exclusively revenant and necromancer. I really saw a lot of parallels my experience with revenant. I found Herald to be a snooze fest of a build. I never play it. I do enjoy the bouncy frenetic feel of Vindicator but have not had the spec for that long. I do think you made a decision that probably limited your enjoyment of Renegade. You would probably have enjoyed that a lot more if you used Demon stance with Mace/axe as the other legend. I used mostly Dwarf and Assassin on Renegade at first and that Renegade became my favorite after using Demon. Give it a try. My first character ever was warrior and I never got past level 58. I keep the toon mostly for the birthday gifts. Please do necro soon. I played more Reaper than anything and just finished leveling Scourge yesterday. I was on an HP train and now also have most of Harbinger filled in also.
Glad you're enjoying the series! I'm definitely going to go back to all these classes after the series is over and try out all the other recommendations that people are giving me about them. I'm looking forward to necro, I enjoyed what I played of Scourge necro, I used to use it as an actual alt for a little while so I'm more familiar with Necro than some other classes (Though not much). Definitely looking forward to doing it soon.
@syzxgamingx Thx for this upload ;) as a new GW2 player who have been through some various builds to find what I like I think this last build in your video of yours look so much fun do you have a link to the final build? so i have something to copy/past to try it out? Keep up the good work
Hey, happy you enjoyed the video! Sorry for the delay, had a crazy day at work yesterday. Here's the copy-pastable build template for my Vindicator. [&DQkPOwMaRRncEdwRBhIGEtQR1BErEisSyhHKEQcCBwIGEisS1BHUESsSBhICMgBrAAA=]
Regarding the cost of equipping classes it just occurred to me that crafting ascended armour will likely save you a lot of money as you can swap it to each new character each month. :) Not sure if you did that already but it's a good investment for the future. :)
You are a certified genius. I somehow entirely forgot it's account bound! I'll have to see if I can do ascended medium armor to kick off my month of engineer I'm starting in June!
@@syzxgamingx Glad it helped! :D I found out last year that Lunatic armor is account bound too! I wish I'd know that sooner! Slowly building up my gear sets - I now have 10 character slots and all 9 classes so I feel your pain!
Personally when I played Revenant, I never had many options for power builds, it was always just hammer or greatsword, yet Condi gets all the stuff necessary for being optimal... Never liked condi, too pricey for someone like me who doesn't have legendary gear
No clue what you run there on your Vindi but it's sad to see. Those meager 3k hits make me just sad. You could have been wrecking havoc with 20k-30k hits as your lowest damage that spikes up to over 70k per hit. And that with hillarious sustain since you have literally 3 heals, perma dodge, cond cleanse, stab, stun break...
Herald main here. I don't wanna be "that" person, but if you feel like Dragon Stance is boring, you're playing it wrong. Dragon Stance is your bread and butter, and it should be used actively instead of passively. Here are some tips and tricks: 1) Choose Elevated Compassion as your last trait in the Herald trait line. Now you have the ability to give perma quickness.. 2) In order to provide said quickness, you need to constantly be draining energy from your utility skills alone. Remember, most of your weapon skills also require energy so energy management will be one of your biggest challenges. 3) Herald utility skills are called Facets, and they have an effect both on activation and on deactivation. Activating Facet of Light, Darkness and Strengt will give perma Regen, Fury and Might, but it will not start draining your energy. Add Facet of Nature and voilà, you are now also giving quickness plus additional boon duration that does not count into the concentration cap. Facet of Nature is the Heralds Special Action Key, and unlike the rest of the Facets, it is always available no matter what legend the Herald is currently in. It has different effects in different legends. 4) You will want to swap legends before your energy runs out. If it does, all your Facets reset, and you will have wasted the chance to use the flip skill (deactivation). Therefore, you wanna make sure to always use every Facet twice before swapping from Dragon. For example, the deactivation of Facet of Light is arguably one of the best healing skills in the game. It converts all incoming damage to healing for three seconds after using it. Deactivating Darkness and Strengt are huge damage boosts, and deactivating Nature while in Dragon gives additional boon duration plus condi cleanse (3 conditions). Deactivation of Facet of Darkness is also a stunbreak, so use it wisely. 5) For power Q Herald, combine Dragon Stance with Assassin and activate Impossible Odds when in Assassin. This is a great power boost and it will also drain energy all on it's own, thus providing quickness. If you add Facet of Nature while in Assassin, it will provide life steal on activation and boonstrip on deactivation. 6) For Condi Q Herald, combine Dragon Stance with Demon and activate Embrace the Darkness when in Demon. This will make you pulse torment around you and it will also drain energy all on it's own, thus providing quickness. If you add Facet of Nature while in Demon you will transfer conditions from allies to yourself every few seconds on activation and transfer conditions currently on you to nearby enemies, plus give you might for each condition transfered, on deactivation. 7) Adjust weapons, gear and the rest of the traits etc. according to your chosen damage output (power or condi), and you're good to go.
Yeah Herald is the type of build I would probably only play for group content with friends because at that point the fun is more in the task & people for me than my personal play.
Other than bringing dishonor on you all for forgetting to buy runes and sigils for a whole month; what should I try to do better for next month's Engineer challenge!?
Have Fun? I don't know what advice to give, but Engie is my long time favorite.
Aight, as a dedicated Rev main heres some stuff I noticed: You ran Condi Weapons (Mace/Axe and Shortbow) in a Power Trait setup, so obviously they wont do jack. Centaur also very much is a pure support option that is for supporting allies, so yeah, again no wonder you didnt click with it. revenant lives off of adaptability, both in the legends and in the traits. Its why Celestial Rev is pretty much king in Open World, you can do everything from healer to buffer to massive DPS to just flat-out refusing to die. Also, and I noticed that a lot, I dont think you ever triggered your Quickness in Dragon stance on herald in the footage you showed. Heralds Dragon stance can be fairly high APM if instead of flipping on the 7 8 9 you flip on Facet of nature and Elite, resulting in the required 6 pips to give you quickness, as well as letting you pop the 7 8 9 off cooldown for buffs and damage. Lastly, and most importantly, Rev traitlines are synergistic beyond compare. It revolves a lot around giving yourself Boons or inflicting specific conditions (Mainly Vuln and Torment) which then triggers other traits.
tl;dr
I dont want to sound insulting although it probably does but I havent been able to come up with better wording, but it just feels like you didnt read your traits and weaponskills more than just briefly glancing over them, and just equipped what you hadnt used yet.
I appreciate the feedback from a Rev main! I definitely have gotten a lot better about actually absorbing information from the classes I'm playing as I've continued the challenges through the year, and I agree I could have done so much better for this. It's actually always been one of my weakest points in MMO's in general is failing to really grasp the concepts behind skills and builds, rather I just learn what I need to press when, which is part of the reason I started this challenge as well. It's not really that I failed to read them, it can just take me a long time to fully grasp weaponskills and traits.
tl;dr not insulted, you're right about what you said, appreciate the time ya took!
vindicator main here, the apm can get incredibly fast if you build around quickness. the strong point about rev skills is that in exchange for the energy system limiting you, all the utility skills have very low cooldown so if you swap legends at the right time you can non stop use skills.
Being locked in utility skills always felt comfortable for me, I manage to become good as a revenant because I did not waste time changing and trying out skills, trying to adapt different situations with differet utilities. I know its weird for most people, what can I say :)
Not that weird, it makes sense! I definitely see how it can be great, it's just so alien to me!
having perma quickness on herald is what makes it good, doesn't make it more engaging though so your complaints are valid.
I think Herald has ruined the game for me. I'm too used to perma quickness and speed that anything else seems sluggish by comparison 😅
The thing I like about revs is just how flexible the whole class is. You can provide permanent alacrity with a renegade, you can do perma quickness and one of the best supports in the game as a quickness herald (best dps support in the game hands down), you can have a very potent herald healer which can let you carry groups like its nothing, you can dps like crazy on a vindi and vindi is also a very good healer in wvw.
Cele revs are basically indestructible in open world PVE. Doesn't even matter which spec you play, they are all going to feel extremely tanky and survivable because all three specs have easy access to either quickness or alacrity, and each of these classes can roll with perma protection, making you, along with some nutty damage reduction passives one very tanky MF.
Basically you have a build for every occasion, any need in the game. There's few classes that come close to rev from this point of view.
That's a really good perspective. I need to go back and play rev in PvE sometime with some actual tuned builds, because I don't think I really nailed down a 'great' build myself in this challenge!
Hey I'm curious, does necro offer some of the same flexibility in massive tankiness and damage, as Rev does? Or is Rev on another level compared to Necro?
@@browsergameshub it depends how you look at it but if you take pve context into perspective then I would say rev is on another level simply because it is heavy armor compared to light armor and rev tankines does not rely on shroud as a necro would (way squishier outside shroud) but rather has the tankines built into the build and is easier to control. Saying that, you need to first get a grasp of the energy system.
Oh my god, another warrior main! We're so rare. We must stick together! 8 character slots, 6 warriors.
Made my Charr Warrior during early access and never looked back! Nice to see a fellow Warrior main, I do feel like we're pretty uncommon!
@@syzxgamingx Charr Warrior main for life!
How can you stick to a dull class like that? Warriors are always so obsessed with playing warrior.. every time I play it I’m bored to death
Everyone's got their own personal preferences and fun my friend
@@syzxgamingx of course (: I don’t mean it in a bad way.. but especially warriors are so proud of their class and I admire it.. but I also want to understand 🙈
"A lot was riding on Vindicator." OOOHHHHH baby..... I started on Warrior, rotated over to Willbender, and then to Vindi/Soulbeast. I can't decide which I like more so I flip-flop constantly, but Vindicator scratches so many "high mobility big smash" itches.
I too really do enjoy some Vindicator so far. Soulbeast as well, I played a lot of that during WvW quite a while ago! Still my go-to
the cymbal monkey comment spoke to me as a warrior main. sometimes i just wanna go unga bunga, and smash keys in a specific order like im at an arcade in the 90's
Step one; apply face to keyboard
Step two; roll face rythymically
Step 3; profit
Funny, but I found the Herald the best for me. The idea is to keep swiftness and might before the combat, unleashing them at the beginning (gaining passive bonuses from a Draconic Echo), and keeping pressure with these and blind/stunbreaker skills when required. It sits really well with condi build (Mallyx) rotation. I wish I could have Herald skills with a Vindicator dodge.
The main Revenant issue is a lack of stability and energy upkeep that could be critical if you need a stun break immediately, but do not have enough energy - and some stun breakers require time to take effect (Pain Absorption for example).
Another Reve problem is the lack of melee condi weapons. Mace is way too slooooow against a fast opponent (I hate thiefs).
Hey fair enough. As a solo PvE player my motto is if it works for you and it's fun for you, do it. I don't blame you about the thieves. Mesmers and Thieves I just don't even have the energy to fight, especially in WvW, LOL. Hopefully the next weapon after spear brings rev some more melee condi.
watched video, the only thing that baffled me the most is the fact he doesn't change the stances too often, its what brings out the big quick apm plays and gives the giga drop of energy a refill /cry
I'll do better next time LOL
I had a similar experience but in the opposite way haha, Started with Vindicator and loved it, probably my favorite open world build, partly thanks to sigil of stamina, it lets you just spam dodge against regular open world mobs which was so much fun, definitely recommend trying it! I tried Herald afterwards only to find out its so much more boring and went back, totally agree with you on the Dragon stance, Still have to unlock Renegade.
Glad I'm not the only one then! Also yesss Sigil of Stamina would be great for open world PvE. I'm sure you can max out your frequent flier miles with that thing!
Greatsword herald is really fun right now. You need SotO weapon mastery to use GS on Herald and I must say, I have found my new main. Dragon Stance is really good too for boons and also extra damage.
I'm happy you like it! Is there something I'm missing? Am I not supposed to just be leaving those sigils up mostly or is that how it's best played?
@@syzxgamingx someone could def answer better than I can since I am also quite new to herald. I usually keep them up most of the fight but when I need to do some extra damage, I use them then repeat.
Keeping the passive effect, then activate will activate quickness for you and your party, on top of shared boons like fury, protection, might, regen, swiftness, and drops condi's
Depending on how it's traited also
My funnest Vindi build is dual power GS with stamina sigil for endurance gain on weapon swap and trait for big dodge damage. Spam the profession mechanic button for extra energy, lather, rinse, repeat & profit!
You don't appear to be swapping legends in combat. That's kind of a big deal.
Someone else finding herald odd satisfies me a lot. I run a Jalis/Kalla Rev on wvw and some open world and i simply cant get used to "press button have boons but do t use more than 2skills or else!"
Yes! It's not only limiting your active utility skill usages but it feels punishing for you to be active with your weapon too. I'm glad you feel that way as well, thought I might be crazy
Your project is very cool. I did something similar, and my conclusion was that I like my main power Berserker so much that all I liked in the game were "variations" of it: Soulbeast, Reaper and my second Warrior as a condi.
I have a similar feeling to what you described about Revenant, and I always think that Vindicator will be the way out. But I still don't have access to Vindicator, so I ended up insisting a little more on Herald and as soon as I discovered the hammer and how to use Glint I've been having a lot of fun.
I'm an illustrator, so fashion is very important to my gameplay. And it's really strange how difficult it was to find an aesthetic for my Revenant. I think you should consider this, combat is a lot about aesthetics.
One last thing, I still don't have access to Bladesworn, and I believe it will be my preferred specialization along with Berserker. I was curious why you didn't like Bladesworn, would you mind telling me?
I agree with you on finding an aesthetic for Revenant difficult, I kinda had the same thing. I liked my new look, but I still don't *love* it. I also agree combat is a lot about aesthetics. Part of the reason that while I love my Deadeye thief from what short time I've played them, I find myself not wanting to go back often because it's just sit there and shoot a rifle.
As far as Bladesworn, it's biggest downfall for me is the lack of weapon swap. I've always been a big weapon swapper, and with bladesworn you have just the one weapon, and then the gunsaber. The Gunsaber bursting is cool and I had a lot of fun at first, but sometimes it just feels very tedious to lock in, wait for the full charge and then unleash it. On a more minor note, I also am pretty disappointed that the 1-5 animations for the gunsaber are all standard greatsword animations. The elite burst skills are different and very cool though. The actual mechanics of it are pretty solid though, I don't think it's even a 'Bad' spec, just not my cuppa tea.
I love this series, for the longest time I couldn’t get into guardian, but your guardian video inspired me to give the ol blue boy another go and I have been having a lot of fun. I’m a longtime warrior player as well, and I’d be interested to see your take on ranger specifically the Untamed. When you described the play style you gravitate towards I definitely think the untamed marries the the hard hitting of the warrior with the hyper aggressiveness of the willbender that I think would provide an interesting experience. I would recommend mace/mace or hammer for the max unga-bunga.
I'm glad you enjoyed and it gave you a second breath of life for Guardian!
I'm definitely gonna give that a go when I do ranger! I've actually played a good bit of soulbeast Longbow/GS in WvW so was planning on most likely leaning heavily into Untamed in my ranger month!
Vindicator is my main, nothing else in the game itches my itch like vihndicator, im utterly inlove with it
Dang didn't play on demon stance kali and Demon are such a good combo with shortbow and mace axe.
I'll have to give that a shot sometime!
This series is great, thank you.
Glad you like them!
I love the way revenants abilities look and feel, but i hate the fact that i can't change the utilities. And it get repetitive really fast. That's why I stick with my ranger. It's one of the classes with the most weapon varieties and the different pets abilities, combined with the big diferentiation between specs, make it feels like a new profession for me whenever I'm bored.
Ranger is a lot of fun. I've always enjoyed Longbow ranger in WvW for some reason it just feels nice to defend from the walls with a bow able to rain arrows down at will. No other reason than pure VIBES lol
@@syzxgamingx I love the hammer. In my opinion, it's the best hammer in the game so far, at least for me.
Very nice video :) and for what it’s worth, i share the same opinion. Being locked in when utility skills just feels extremely limiting
Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it! Yeah, even just last night I was swapping stuff on my warrior so I had more defiance break instead of a banner. Utility swapping is just too helpful!
intresting. i have exactly the same feelings about the revenant elites as you.
I log into my Vindicator fairly often and the beginning of this video was killing me. It's definitely the adhd spec. I'm starting to add more celestial gear for better healing when I swap to Saint Viktor. Should be a lot of fun in metas and WvW.
Man you'll love Engineer. Coming from a warrior main I felt the same about Revenant, kinda okay-ish but not that's fun. Then I tried Engineer. Already have way too much playtime on this Engineer, every spec is awesome both for solo and group content. Even core Engineer is fun as hell 😂
I'm hoping so! I honestly already know I will a bit, as once upon a time I was doing a (now discontinued) Engineer permadeath leveling run on a free to play account when I first fired up this channel last year, and I did really enjoy just the core Engi even when leveling. I'm really excited to try Holosmith and Scrapper.
@@syzxgamingx you'll have a blast man! Scrapper is hella good for open World and both PvP modes, Holosmith is great at PvP mostly. And Mechanist is good pretty much everywhere 🤣
For a game that is old you still need a high end cpu to play it on ultra quality EOD and soto eats FPS alot
Yeah unfortunately a byproduct of their ancient engine. CPU optimization is awful. To this day my biggest pet peeve. Even my new CPU I built i just leave player model limit on lowest when i go to do events.
That revenant is the best class out there?
Vindicator mains, beside great sword, what is your second weapon? 😮
I found this series when I looked in on your Willbender video. I really look forward to your others. I have played almost exclusively revenant and necromancer. I really saw a lot of parallels my experience with revenant. I found Herald to be a snooze fest of a build. I never play it. I do enjoy the bouncy frenetic feel of Vindicator but have not had the spec for that long. I do think you made a decision that probably limited your enjoyment of Renegade. You would probably have enjoyed that a lot more if you used Demon stance with Mace/axe as the other legend. I used mostly Dwarf and Assassin on Renegade at first and that Renegade became my favorite after using Demon. Give it a try. My first character ever was warrior and I never got past level 58. I keep the toon mostly for the birthday gifts. Please do necro soon. I played more Reaper than anything and just finished leveling Scourge yesterday. I was on an HP train and now also have most of Harbinger filled in also.
Glad you're enjoying the series! I'm definitely going to go back to all these classes after the series is over and try out all the other recommendations that people are giving me about them. I'm looking forward to necro, I enjoyed what I played of Scourge necro, I used to use it as an actual alt for a little while so I'm more familiar with Necro than some other classes (Though not much). Definitely looking forward to doing it soon.
@syzxgamingx Thx for this upload ;)
as a new GW2 player who have been through some various builds to find what I like I think this last build in your video of yours look so much fun do you have a link to the final build? so i have something to copy/past to try it out? Keep up the good work
Hey, happy you enjoyed the video! Sorry for the delay, had a crazy day at work yesterday. Here's the copy-pastable build template for my Vindicator.
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I ran shortbow because I enjoy having ranged options for open world eventing so it's easier to tag things as you run up
@@syzxgamingx thx ;)
@@syzxgamingx Hmm i have the full renagade points and attach short bow but the bow dosent show, and no skillz to use the bow do you know why?
Regarding the cost of equipping classes it just occurred to me that crafting ascended armour will likely save you a lot of money as you can swap it to each new character each month. :) Not sure if you did that already but it's a good investment for the future. :)
You are a certified genius. I somehow entirely forgot it's account bound! I'll have to see if I can do ascended medium armor to kick off my month of engineer I'm starting in June!
@@syzxgamingx Glad it helped! :D I found out last year that Lunatic armor is account bound too! I wish I'd know that sooner!
Slowly building up my gear sets - I now have 10 character slots and all 9 classes so I feel your pain!
Personally when I played Revenant, I never had many options for power builds, it was always just hammer or greatsword, yet Condi gets all the stuff necessary for being optimal... Never liked condi, too pricey for someone like me who doesn't have legendary gear
No clue what you run there on your Vindi but it's sad to see. Those meager 3k hits make me just sad. You could have been wrecking havoc with 20k-30k hits as your lowest damage that spikes up to over 70k per hit. And that with hillarious sustain since you have literally 3 heals, perma dodge, cond cleanse, stab, stun break...
Herald main here. I don't wanna be "that" person, but if you feel like Dragon Stance is boring, you're playing it wrong. Dragon Stance is your bread and butter, and it should be used actively instead of passively.
Here are some tips and tricks:
1) Choose Elevated Compassion as your last trait in the Herald trait line. Now you have the ability to give perma quickness..
2) In order to provide said quickness, you need to constantly be draining energy from your utility skills alone. Remember, most of your weapon skills also require energy so energy management will be one of your biggest challenges.
3) Herald utility skills are called Facets, and they have an effect both on activation and on deactivation. Activating Facet of Light, Darkness and Strengt will give perma Regen, Fury and Might, but it will not start draining your energy. Add Facet of Nature and voilà, you are now also giving quickness plus additional boon duration that does not count into the concentration cap. Facet of Nature is the Heralds Special Action Key, and unlike the rest of the Facets, it is always available no matter what legend the Herald is currently in. It has different effects in different legends.
4) You will want to swap legends before your energy runs out. If it does, all your Facets reset, and you will have wasted the chance to use the flip skill (deactivation). Therefore, you wanna make sure to always use every Facet twice before swapping from Dragon. For example, the deactivation of Facet of Light is arguably one of the best healing skills in the game. It converts all incoming damage to healing for three seconds after using it. Deactivating Darkness and Strengt are huge damage boosts, and deactivating Nature while in Dragon gives additional boon duration plus condi cleanse (3 conditions). Deactivation of Facet of Darkness is also a stunbreak, so use it wisely.
5) For power Q Herald, combine Dragon Stance with Assassin and activate Impossible Odds when in Assassin. This is a great power boost and it will also drain energy all on it's own, thus providing quickness. If you add Facet of Nature while in Assassin, it will provide life steal on activation and boonstrip on deactivation.
6) For Condi Q Herald, combine Dragon Stance with Demon and activate Embrace the Darkness when in Demon. This will make you pulse torment around you and it will also drain energy all on it's own, thus providing quickness. If you add Facet of Nature while in Demon you will transfer conditions from allies to yourself every few seconds on activation and transfer conditions currently on you to nearby enemies, plus give you might for each condition transfered, on deactivation.
7) Adjust weapons, gear and the rest of the traits etc. according to your chosen damage output (power or condi), and you're good to go.
Glint forgives me, but Herald is very, very boring. I tried, seriously, but it is a big NO for me. It is sad cuz I love playing with quickness.
Yeah Herald is the type of build I would probably only play for group content with friends because at that point the fun is more in the task & people for me than my personal play.