Guild Wars 2

A small rant on archtype perception vs actual functionality of a class.The classes I want to rant about a bit are Revenant and Guardian. The rant is solely about theme and purpose….no OP bs.

Although Revenants are supposed to be guys in heavy armor who devastate enemies with mostly melee weapons and magic and Guardians are the dudes in the heavy armor who uses their magic to protect their allies…I feel that things work exactly the other way around – Guardians are the blokes who are better at smiteing foes with sword and spell, regardless of whether or not they can use a longbow, while Revenants are actualy better at bolstering their allies defences provided they are able to call upon the power of Glint (let’s be honest Malyx is decent for removing conditions…provided none of your allies are either Necromancers or a Guardian with “Save Yourselves” + “Contemplation of Purity” on the bar).

The most shamefull difference between Revenant and Guardian is that Revenant is locked in certain trait combinations to be effective while Guardian is free to mix it up a lot more than the Revenant.

Also another glearing thing for me are the staves (my english is soo shaite,I can’t remember the plural for staff) of both Guardian and Revenant….isn’t Revenant’s kit for staff better suited for what is stated on the official website to be the Guardian’s role, while the Guardian staff…..would actualy suit the Revenant if some of the skills were renamed from symbols to facets (because based on Glint’s kit….Revenant’s are all about the facets mate).

The shields for both classes are also a piece of work – I am talking about the no 4 on both of them…they are soo good for backrow support…wish they were on the same weapon…with the conditions that Envoy of Exuberance also aplied Aegis and Shield of Judgement had a knockdown instead of giving Aegis.

If cross class mechanics would ever be a thing, I hope they cross Guardians and Revenants. With energy mechanic alongside basic Virtues, Guardians would be better Heralds than Revenants XD.