Personally i dont want to have selectable utilities.
First – noone will be capable of forcing me to pick up certain skills as they are all locked to legends. I want to play the way i want instead of playing yet another meta noob build. Warrior is destroyed for me at this point as everyone except them to carry a banner yet i reject being a banner bot and for that reason i stopped playing him even in pve. Let him run these chestfarm. Ofc its obvious there will be a zerk legend but its a bit different situation here.
Second – i want legends to have their own theme and iconic skills. Whats the point of channeling Jalis to use shiro+glint skills? thats breaking immersion for me. And cause they are not swapable they need to make sure that all of these abilities are viable and has their uses in certain situations. Otherwise x legend will become underpowered and considered non viable. We have enough of that stuff.
Third – i would prefer swapable weapon skills instead. Thats something no other class has yet. Imagine if you could run with a weapon you prefer and adjust it to your playstyle – want hammer ranger? np. You changed mind and want use it as melee weapon? Np man. You tried playing it and decided full melee is not your style? Here man, take this skill set which is a mix of melee and ranged attacks. Enjoy.
In short revenant abilities so far seems really strong but they have their downsides due to legend limitations. If they allowed us to swap abilities then we will see alot of these abilities nerfed into ground as i can imagine already putting there perma stab, boon removal, condi removal (if they get one), aoe endure pain called rite and who knows what else. Runned out of energy? Swap, you have energy up to use these skills again. Thats how it would work. If you wanted to run themed skills tied to legends? Tough luck. You might as well delete your toon as you wont be viable with that mix-n-match.
As it stands now mallyx is a offensive condi tank that can punish anyone for applying condition to him. He can protect himself pretty well from conditions at the cost of basically 0 mobility and lack of tools to deal with cc/direct damage. Jalis is the opposite – high stab uptime, no cd stunbreak, direct damage immunity at the cost of no condi removal outside of his healing skill on 30cd. But he also lack mobility. Thats how they getting balanced – you get some strong abilities at the cost of lacking somewhere else. Cant have it all otherwise its will be broken as kitten.
