Guild Wars 2

What’s some ideas for the Revenant’s support oriented legend?

What you believe it will be?

I hope Anet show us what skills it has soon.

Glint is the best candidate, in my opinion.

Knighthonor.4061:

What’s some ideas for the Revenant’s support oriented legend?

What you believe it will be?

I hope Anet show us what skills it has soon.

Honestly, I think Jalis will be as support oriented as we’ll get considering he has party wide damage reductions and stability on a short cooldown (if you watch your energy levels anyway)

I reckon Glint will have lots of CC options and retal given his Guild Wars 1 skills.

Though it looks like you’ll need to use multiple legends to get the most out of our group support options, with each legend having at least one group oriented skill (Jalis for stability, Malyx for condition removal etc.)

How about Mhenlo, the iconic Monk henchman for most of GW1?

I think it’s being mixed into all of them. Jalis has physical support, and Mallyx draws conditions from the group. I’m guessing Glint will be boon-heavy. The fourth…I dunno.

psizone.8437:

Honestly, I think Jalis will be as support oriented as we’ll get considering he has party wide damage reductions and stability on a short cooldown (if you watch your energy levels anyway)

ArenaNet themselves use the term ‘support’ to mean a certain thing – a focus on buffing and healing. I’m sure every legend will have a trick or two to help their allies but it seems like one will be more specialised in that.

Jalis, in their own words, they’ve described as tanky. So I doubt he’s the support the legend. Though since revenant utilities all draw from the same energy pool rather than being on cooldowns I’m sure a support-minded player could ignore all of his damage utilies and just use his damage reduction one.

Also take a look at his trait line. Sure one of the stats it improves is healing but notice how all of the traits are self-oriented. Not a single one (directly) helps allies. It’s lots of self-heals ,s elf-protection buffs and a few taunts, i.e. incredibly tanky.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Retribution_

Who do I think it will be? There’s so many dead ‘legends’ that we can only really take wild stabs in the dark as to who the support one will be.

I think Ventari would be cool and I’d love to have some plant-themed abilities – but maybe non-Sylvari would prefer to see someone else?

Given the Revenant’s mechanic, I can imagine a famous Monk being the Support based channel, simply because there are a few old Monk skills that used Upkeep cost that they could draw upon. For example:

• Essence Bond – Gain 1 Energy when nearby allies are struck.
• Mending – Nearby allies regenerate health.
• Purifying Veil – Conditions on nearby allies expire faster.