Guild Wars 2

I really wanted to like this class.

Aside from being unable to kill anything (zero DPS even in zerker gear), the most frustrating bit about this class is that I can’t even customize it. You choose a weapon, two legends, and the traitlines that match your legends (all the traits pretty much do nothing though…), and maybe your gear (the least customizable thing in GW2). Half the fun in this game is being able to pick different utility skills and optimize a build.

At the very least, this class needs a way to swap weapons, and have multiple different utilities that can be swapped into and out of each legend to let you customize them a bit more. Right now, the legends have absolutely zero ability to be used together, and generally you get a “good” legend for your weapon/stats (like jalis + hammer + zerk) and a legend that is borderline unusable with your current setup. If you could swap out various utilities/elites/heals for each legend and then use those as a build, maybe this profession would be playable.

This might have been fixable with traits, but none of those do anything. The +50% crit chance on fury is the only remotely exciting one, but access to fury seems limited to blowing your heal ability, which is a major downside.

/end rant

Agreed, far to basic, needs a wep swap and the ability to choose utils for your legend, did I say basic? yeah basic is what it is, basic…

A weapon swap would improve the diversity of the profession.

oooh ooh i thought of something ….. why not have the weapon skills also change with the legend :o

Yeah I second all of this. I was super pumped for my revenant and then couldn’t even kill basic mobs in a timely fashion. I love the ideas behind the new prof, and I know it’s a beta, so my advice ANet is to give rev a weapon swap. Like kazi said -

kazi.6438:

Right now, the legends have absolutely zero ability to be used together, and generally you get a “good” legend for your weapon/stats (like jalis + hammer + zerk) and a legend that is borderline unusable with your current setup.

It’s no fun being stuck with one build where you can’t customize or swap legends for fear of losing effectiveness.

NoxInfernus.2361:

A weapon swap would improve the diversity of the profession.

Not not by much sadly. ArenaNet was so focused on creating synergy within legends that there’s not enough synergy between the weapons, traits, and legends.

Ya the profession need a lot of work, but I have an idea. A normal profession like a guardian for example. You can choose 2 weapons, each give you a fix 5 skills. Then you can choose between 4 healing skill, 20 utility skills and 3 elite.

The revenant could just be the opposite. You can choose 2 legend each give you a fix 5 skills (1 heal, 3 utility and 1 elite). Then on your weapon you can choose 5 skill of a pool or like 10 or something. So lets say the revenant have 5 weapons possible, each would have 10-15 skill to choose from. That’s a lot of skill and could be hard to manage. So they could change thing up a bit and divide the weapon skill in 2.

The auto-attack is linked to the weapon and can’t be modified. But for the remaining 4 skills of the weapon you have a pool or like 20 skills to choose from. Each of those skill are like glyph for elementalist. They work the same way, but gonna give different result depending on which weapon you use it.

For exemple you could have Field of Mist. With hammer, this block projectile in front of you. But on off-hand Axe it would block incoming condition in front of you. In staff it would heal allies in front of you, etc.

I would like to see it get Weapon Swap.

I get they wanted to make it something different from the rest… but. I found myself sorta bored after a bit.

Seconded. I LOVE that’s different, don’t get me wrong. I love the snazzy animations between shifting legends, etc. I just want a little more power and customization in my toon.