I booted up the original Guild Wars today as I realized I only had 29/30 Hall of Monument points, and as I’m playing through on my Dervish I’m remembering how fun this class was to play. With Path of Fire coming out I feel as if the Dervish would fit right in, and although the Revenant is similar to the Dervish, it certainly is not it.
Will we ever see either the Dervish or Ritualist make a return in Guild Wars 2?
The Rev is based on the Ritualist as a class, but the Spell Breaker is supposed to be the Dervish surrogate. But if you really want to argue it….. the Reaper is actually as close to the Dervish in a mechanical sense as this game allows.
The Rev is based on the Ritualist as a class, but the Spell Breaker is supposed to be the Dervish surrogate. But if you really want to argue it….. the Reaper is actually as close to the Dervish in a mechanical sense as this game allows.
Thank you for this, I will check out both Revenant and the Reaper Specialization!
Since the GW2 mesmer doesn’t match the GW1 mesmer, the GW2 ranger differs from the GW1 version, and so on, I don’t ever worry about seeing classes return just because I liked them in GW1 or some other game.
Instead, I far prefer what ANet’s done here: try to make the classes fun for a variety of playstyles, so that most of us are bound to find one we like. Normally, I wouldn’t be caught downed/defeated on a heavy armor class, but in this game, I really like guardian and I’m getting into warrior (and less so rev).
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The Rev is based on the Ritualist as a class, but the Spell Breaker is supposed to be the Dervish surrogate. But if you really want to argue it….. the Reaper is actually as close to the Dervish in a mechanical sense as this game allows.
Actually, The Revenant is NOT based on the Ritualist. It’s successor is the Engineer, who is a modern-day twist on the Ritualist. Ritualists use the spirits of the dead to channel their powers. Engineers use turrets, as well as firearms.
Actually there is no such class in GW2 that resembles ritualist right now at all. Both revenants and engineers use different mechanics – turrets are far less versatile then ritualist’s spirits were and same goes for revenant legends and ritualist’s items spells. I, for one, do hope that once we get to Cantha at one point, we may have a class resembling the ritualist’s mysticism much more then revenant does now.
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Well I feel you OP. The ritualist was my favorite class of almost any game I ever played. I loved it in pve. I was crushed when they said it wouldn’t make an appearance in this game. I also hate melee fighting but for some reason I really enjoyed the dervish, again I was utterly disappointed as there is no dervish in this game. I have played every class and right now, nothing and I mean NOTHING, resembles either of these two classes. While it saddens me I did move on and found I liked playing a mesmer which has an abysmal dps rating. I wound up hating it in HOT because the mechanics changed so much, you were forced to play a certain way to survive. The change was a complete turn off as I felt I was playing a much different class than the mesmer I played in the core game. Now I find myself trying to decide which class I go forward with into POF. Just an FYI, sometimes I go back and play GW1 for a bit so I can reminiscence and think of what might have been……
Well I feel you OP. The ritualist was my favorite class of almost any game I ever played. I loved it in pve. I was crushed when they said it wouldn’t make an appearance in this game. I also hate melee fighting but for some reason I really enjoyed the dervish, again I was utterly disappointed as there is no dervish in this game. I have played every class and right now, nothing and I mean NOTHING, resembles either of these two classes. While it saddens me I did move on and found I liked playing a mesmer which has an abysmal dps rating. I wound up hating it in HOT because the mechanics changed so much, you were forced to play a certain way to survive. The change was a complete turn off as I felt I was playing a much different class than the mesmer I played in the core game. Now I find myself trying to decide which class I go forward with into POF. Just an FYI, sometimes I go back and play GW1 for a bit so I can reminiscence and think of what might have been……
Yeah, my favorite part about the Dervish was the amount of boons and sustain they had. I could take a second to buff up before each fight and be able to dish out tons of damage while healing and restoring energy with each attack. I never played much of Ritualist but I had quite a few friends who were Ritualist mains and they were all obsessed with the class. Maybe they’ll make a return later on in the life of GW2. I think it’s a possibility, and to be honest I’m a bit surprised PoF didn’t include another class.
LOL, I remember having heroes. I was a rit, and had 2 necros, I had a meatwall with spirts all over the place bombing and killing everything. Wow those were the days. Use to solo underworld with that setup. You could kill everything and anything.
the lore is that magic, technology and skills have drastically evolved, studied and developed over the many hundreds of years, we won’t be getting old classes and it wouldn’t make sense for the universe either
Actually, The Revenant is NOT based on the Ritualist. It’s successor is the Engineer, who is a modern-day twist on the Ritualist. Ritualists use the spirits of the dead to channel their powers. Engineers use turrets, as well as firearms.
This is probably true in terms of gameplay, but it is completly stupid in terms of roleplay and “consumer (player) targeting”. Someone who was fan of the ritualist, a shamanistic, mystic class using an old dying magic and reprenting the dying past of Tyria, isn’t likely to take the exact opposite archetype, a class based on modern gadgets and science and who represents the future of Tyria.
Coming from WoW I searched a class close to the shaman (a supportive mystic class using ancient magic) and a lot of people said me engineer … because of the totems … LMAO.
