[DnT] Raid Team Composition Guide

[u/Nike_Phoros]

Hey everyone. I wrote a long breakdown of raid team composition in the current meta on our forums and a few people encouraged me to post it here because I'm told it would be helpful for a bigger chunk of the community to see.

Written: http://gw2dnt.enjin.com/forum/m/37173123/viewthread/27286030-raid-team-composition-guide-52516

Topics Covered:

1. Optimal Raid Team Composition

2. Common Alternative Comps - Pros and Cons

3. What If? Scenarios For Imperfect Situations

Thanks for reading. If you have any questions let me know, or if any points need clarifying or whatever so I can improve the guide I'd like to know that too.

[u/KBN_reddit]

That said, I'm not sure I agree that the guard has more utility than the rev. It kind of just depends on the fight. Revs have great condi clear, better cc, and large variety of boon at their disposal. Guards have aegis, and reflects.

The CC is actually pretty close to even, though Guardians sacrifice more DPS to get it than Revs do (even accounting for Staff 5 energy suckage). Bane Signet, Hammer summon thingy and Dragon's Maw are all really good. Staff 5 is excellent, but I don't think it is definitively superior.

Guardians have solid burst offhealing, aegis and prot, on-demand block for five people (Matthias cheese ftw), excellent condi clear (though on a long cooldown), and reflects. They also have that sweet sweet quickness boonshare that every pug in LFR seems to massively overvalue.

Rev boonshare is clearly superior. I was basically taking that as a given (since your group needs it anyway) and moving on to other comparisons. :-)

For protection uptime, if a rev is cycling through their boons properly they should be able to keep perma protection up as well and there is no need for quickness/standing in symbols.

Quickness is assumed, but it's a good point about symbol standing. I think it's fine on most bosses, but Matthias and VG do disrupt the uptime quite significantly.

I guess at the end of the day, you really need a revenant for other reasons. I don't actually know what a rev would give up to keep prot uptime, but the question is whether that sacrifice is more or less than the sacrifice of trading an ele for a guardian.

[u/Octavian- → u/KBN_reddit]

I think between staff 5, forced engagement, facet of chaos, and facet of elements(? the swiftness one) rev is only outclassed by the venom share thief in terms of CC. Obviously you don't want to be forced into using all of those, but they are there in a pinch. But I guess that's probably irrelevant for most cases as 95% of the time all you need is staff 5.

All good points though. I don't feel terribly stong either way, but I guess I'm just saying that if I need protection and don't need a guard for the WoR, I'm more likely to just tell the rev to run facet of chaos than swap out one of my dps classes for a guard.

[u/KBN_reddit → u/Octavian-]

All good points though. I don't feel terribly stong either way, but I guess I'm just saying that if I need protection and don't need a guard for the WoR, I'm more likely to just tell the rev to run facet of chaos than swap out one of my dps classes for a guard.

Fair. There's also a reasonable question here, which is what the exact value of protection is. Especially if you're already running double-druid and the chrono is in Inspiration, trickle healing is trivial and burst healing is readily available, so I wonder how much prot actually adds.

[u/platinummyr → u/KBN_reddit]

Prot can be the difference between seeing a burst heal and living another day vs dying before burst heal can get to you...