Guild Wars 2

While playing a rev character, I’ve noticed it didn’t have any utilities that help in rez’ing a team mate. I know it’s a rarely used ability in PvP, but why leave revs out of this utility? I mean in GW1, it’s standard to carry a rez signet in PvP (or atleast in Random Arenas), and the closest you can get to a rez signet in GW2 are the utility skills. But consider why there is a need to these rez skills. To quickly get them back to their feet right? WHAT ABOUT THAT ULTRAMEGAHARD BOSS IN RAID DUNGEONS, MAYBE WE CAN FINALLY USE THESE REZ SKILLS RIGHT?

Battle Standard
Nature’s Renewal
Toss Elixir R
Signet of Undeath
Glyph of Renewal
Signet of Mercy
Illusion of Life
Search and Rescue

If I had to guess, I’d say the reason they don’t have one is probably because of the extremely situational nature of them and way Revenant is set up.

Because utilities are tied to legends and you thus have a set of utilities locked depending on which legend you’re channeling, giving them a rez utility would mean forcing a “wasted slot” on one of the legends except in those exact situations where they’d be useful.

I guess they could work around it by having one of the legends’ abilities do partial “rez healing” (like Toss Elixir R) in addition to its normal functionality (probably Ventari) so that you could still use the skill in other situations, but maybe they didn’t think it was necessary or just overlooked the possibility.

Revenant’s do have one. It is a Herald trait.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Radiant_Revival

@Esreyr, other classes have traits that augment reviving too.

@Electro, yes this is the easiest work around. Maybe add the ability in the Facet of Light of Legendary Glint stance, since the Herald trait as stated by Esreyr already gives a buff while reviving.

Esreyr.6304:

Revenant’s do have one. It is a Herald trait.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Radiant_Revival

And to be fair it’s a pretty amazing one.