Valewalker Question. - Phoenix Freeshard

Hi guys,

Anyone played Valewalker during this patch so far and know if they any good?

In 8v8 situations are they accepted into a 8man or some other classes preferred?

Mon 1 Oct 2018 5:40 PM by Patron

A well played vw is very good and i think with a decent rr and some reputation, you can fill easily a dd slot or backup peeler in 8 man
Good solofarmer for ora mobs but you lack speed.

Tue 2 Oct 2018 4:44 AM by jelzinga_EU

Patron wrote: ↑
Mon 1 Oct 2018 5:40 PM
A well played vw is very good and i think with a decent rr and some reputation, you can fill easily a dd slot or backup peeler in 8 man
Good solofarmer for ora mobs but you lack speed.

VW is a really bad peeler: No snare available except the insta one from Arboreal-spec which is affected by determination/stoicism and has a 20 sec CD. VW has back- and side-stun which is cool but nothing special when the alternative peeler has anytime stun (slam) and melee-snares.

Damage from procs is great but 3rd in side-chain means you won't be doing many of them in real RvR and because they're PBAoE there are situations where they are not useable (breaking mezz/root on nearby targets).

2 ranged instant interrupts sounds cool except 1 provides free snare-immunity and the other is a DoT which generally is a bad idea if you want to mezz/root/snare them later on. Arboreal lifedrain DD is obviously very good

Tue 2 Oct 2018 7:58 AM by faliv

Playable, but blademaster would be the safe bet if you do not know any people to play with. Way easier to get an invite. And while 2 blademaster (or even more) are common in groups, noone will play with more then one valewalker. so again, if you rely on random invites, go with a blademaster if you don´t want to wait to long for an invite.

Tue 2 Oct 2018 9:13 AM by Kaziera

Its an unreliable source of dissease if you want to drop the eld from your tankgrp

Wed 3 Oct 2018 12:42 AM by Turtle006

While I don't dispute all of the above is true, I have seen at least 2 different VWs running around in RvR, (I play Alb) so they exist. I say try one and see how it goes.