Not yet. Though sword is a pretty much given, since Rytlock uses it in the trailer (though that could just be another NPC only thing, like greatswords on necros for now). There’s also the staff/spear that he uses too (some think its a staff, some think its land spears now).
the artwork for it on the website looks like hes holding a type of bow? longbow maybe?
Where do you see a bow there?
Its obviously a melee weapon of some kind, most likely a katana-like sword. What its not, clearly is a bow, since the lower end is capped way too short for a bow, not to mention you can clearly see a criss-crossed pattern (akin to katana hilts) and a couple of chain links ending it.
That in the trailer looks more like a hammer than a staff, but it could be a melee staff. Plus Jalis Ironhammer used a hammer, so it makes more sense that revenants would be able use a hammer. Idk but I’m excited to find out soon!
Sword and Staff are the only two confirmed by the trailer. Spear is the most likely water weapon due to the class clearly being martial in nature.
It’s unknown if they will get weapon swaps or not. I’m leaning toward thinking they do, as if “channeling legends” is their profession mechanic, how is it different from Elementalist attunements?
No, channeling a legend will do something else. I have no idea what, but it will not function like attunements.
Sword and Staff are the only two confirmed by the trailer. Spear is the most likely water weapon due to the class clearly being martial in nature.
It’s unknown if they will get weapon swaps or not. I’m leaning toward thinking they do, as if “channeling legends” is their profession mechanic, how is it different from Elementalist attunements?
No, channeling a legend will do something else. I have no idea what, but it will not function like attunements.
It could be more like engineer kits (channels equipped in the utility slots) than elementalist attunements.
I think it will not have weapon swap. It gives a nice symmetry. Not only will we have 3 heavies, 3 mediums, and 3 lights, there will be one class in each weight that has an alternate mechanism to weapon swap.
OOC swap for all three would be nice though.
“I’m not a PvE, WvW, or PvP player – I am a Guild Wars 2 player”
Tarnished Coast – Dissentient [DIS]
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Rytlock Brimstone is the first Revenant. He is the famous hero of the Charr and during the Living World’s second season, he disappeared into the mists, chasing after an incredibly powerful magical sword. Through his journeys in the mists, he has mastered the power of the mists and he is returning to teach everyone how to be a Revenant. The Revenant effectively is a heavy armor profession that can channel the power of the mists. What that means is that you can channel the power of great legends from Guild Wars history to define the skills that they have available to them. So you can channel the great Dwarf king, King Jalis Ironhammer, and it makes your character much of a front line, tank-y character with abilities to help him survive fighting face-to-face with your enemies. Or you can channel the demon Malik and get the abilities to control the conditions in combat and become much stronger in DPS, supporting your party by removing conditions from them to protect them. Those are the examples of the types of things that a Revenant can do when channeling a legend and each legend that’s going to be available to a Revenant really defines a different play style that’s available for that profession. I think the Revenant is going to be one of the most diverse professions that we’ve ever made in Guild Wars history and it’ll allow for a lot of different, fun, and unique play styles as you master each of the legends.
I thought it as pretty much debunked that Spears would be useable on land. Just the art team having a bit of fun.
Nope, that was Polearms, which was a different/new weapon class. (Theres at least one chat code from near the beginning of game release of an item with that type) They said there were no new weapon types/classes, nothing about land spears, since spears are already existing, they’re just water only weapons currently.
, they’re just water only weapons currently.