Guild Wars 2

Why is it only human Revenants today?

because some amount of work for each other race is currently incomplete?…

because u aren’t testing how the rev looks, you are testing how it plays.

Fenom.9457:

because some amount of work for each other race is currently incomplete?…

Not necessary incomplete just that betas aren’t aimed at letting players see everything.

Jaxom.7310:

because u aren’t testing how the rev looks, you are testing how it plays.

^That.

so is the human character that im gonna make gonna be saved for the opening of HoT? or all the testers characters made will be deleted?

I was disappointed by that, I’m thinking about making a charr revenant when the expansion comes out and I wanted to experiment with how they’ll look. But like other people said I guess they haven’t finished everything yet.

Because human master race.

Jk. As Jaxom already stated: In this beta you aren’t testing how the Revenant looks, but how it plays.

I has a sad
I wanted to try both human and sylvari to see how the class fits each race.
I guess I can at least get a feel for human anyway.

Odd but it is a test character that will be deleted in a few days after all. Unless they are giving us something different than the usual heavy skins I am unclear why their would be a restriction to only one race as there is no difference with other professions. If you play, say, an asura most of the time playing another race for a test would not give you a good feel for how the character compared to what you are used to.

Menadena.7482:

Odd but it is a test character that will be deleted in a few days after all. Unless they are giving us something different than the usual heavy skins I am unclear why their would be a restriction to only one race as there is no difference with other professions. If you play, say, an asura most of the time playing another race for a test would not give you a good feel for how the character compared to what you are used to.

Starting gear that is selected during character creation most likely. They may not have finalized the look on other races yet maybe.

They just said on POI the animations and voiceovers are not done.

I think its probably more “other races have stuff about them with regards to Revenant that isn’t done” (thinking mostly of the voicework) than specifically limiting you to humans because you aren’t supposed to be testing appearance.

I was called away from the computer while Colin explained the humans-only on PoI so I thank Menadena for that recap of the explanation.

I did manage to hear him tell us to go wild spending stuff on our beta alt since it won’t affect live. So I have a preliminary look for my weekend Rev (bunny ears in honor of the bunny ears thread):

Menadena.7482:

They just said on POI the animations and voiceovers are not done.

After thinking about it, the animations not being done are probably the biggest reason we’re restricted to human only.

I guess it’s more important to get the class itself right before fleshing out animations for every race rather than making animations for everything, then later they change a skill then have to go back and re-do all the animations.

Makes sense….I still want my sylvari revanent though.

Update on my Rev look. I’m hoping burning my makeover kit really does stick with the beta, based on the person who may have had their Rev eat their silver-fed.