Guild Wars 2

As rytlock is the first reverent, that means that, I’m assuming, he became a reverent after seeing the Mists after trying to find the sword. Therefore I assume he is the founder of the reverent class, and so it only seems probable that reverents might start the game at level 80 and will have skiped living world season 2 and personal story. Does anyone else agree or am I just overthinking?

Devs already confirmed they start at level 1.

Edit for source:

Roy Cronacher.1576:

Just like on the current professions, you will start at level 1 when you create a new Revenant character. We want it to be easily accessible for anyone with Heart of Thorns which means not putting it behind unnecessary content gates.

Yup, confirmed that will start from lvl 1, and btw the class is Revenant, not Reverent ;D

How would Rytlock being the first revenant mean everyone coming after him is 80?

..If at school u have for the first time a teacher in economics does that mean on day 1 u are as good as him? Or does that mean u start at a noob level (1) and through his teachings u become more knowledgeable in what he teaches you?

There we go again! I won’t give up on this, so I’ll post one more time.

Mists and Tyria are on different time streams. Mists als have a very messy and fragmented time stream allowing time travels.
Time X = pre personal story
Time Y > X = Rytlock goes into Mists, becomes Revenant and teaches

After training you can actually come back before time X, with no paradoxes at all…
Only thing left is when you’ll meet Rytlock pre-revenant (between X and Y), two options:
- Rev Rytlock tells you to shut up and avoid temporal problems;
- Coming back from Mists could have made you loose memory (<- most likely)

Cheers

We can safely assume the Maguuma provinces unlocked with the expansion did already exist in the gameworld´s reality before the expansion, don´t we? Ever heard of suspension of disbelief? Quite a handy thing when enjoying fictional pieces of art.

somewhat OT: oh god(s) why, I just pictured Rytlock with a priest robe on (reverenD)

Arianhod.3485:

somewhat OT: oh god(s) why, I just pictured Rytlock with a priest robe on (reverenD)

:-O now I can’t stop thinking that …

Rytlock’s gone “WOLOLO” XD

Rebound.3409:

How would Rytlock being the first revenant mean everyone coming after him is 80?

Obviously we know that’s not how it works (for all sorts of reasons) but maybe I can understand the OP’s thinking.

Rytlock was something else – a very experienced something else – before becoming a revenant. It’s possible he would only seek out other very experienced people (i.e. level 80 in some other profession) to teach.

So sticking with your educational analogy, like other professions being undergraduate degrees and revenant a postgraduate one.

Caeledh.5437:

Rebound.3409:

How would Rytlock being the first revenant mean everyone coming after him is 80?

Obviously we know that’s not how it works (for all sorts of reasons) but maybe I can understand the OP’s thinking.

Rytlock was something else – a very experienced something else – before becoming a revenant. It’s possible he would only seek out other very experienced people (i.e. level 80 in some other profession) to teach.

So sticking with your educational analogy, like other professions being undergraduate degrees and revenant a postgraduate one.

Why would the revenant be a postgraduate one? Its one the same level as all the other classes. Its not a specialization or some unique thing anet is adding. Its simply just another profession. People act like this is like the Death Knight from WoW and its not.

Tron.3471:

Caeledh.5437:

Obviously we know that’s not how it works (for all sorts of reasons) but maybe I can understand the OP’s thinking.

Why would the revenant be a postgraduate one?

See where I say it’s obviously not how it works, for all sorts of reasons?

All I was saying was their idea / suggestion wasn’t completely irrational. Within the context of GW2’s story and lore it could make perfect sense for Rytlock not to teach gormless noobs how to be revenants.

Why wouldn’t Rytlock not teach noobs how to be revenants? What’s the lore explaining that?

Because veteran soldiers that have ascended to a new level of understanding shouldn’t expect green recruits without any battle experience to be able to confront the mystic challenges of a time warped netherworld.

The problem is, lore wise (ascencion, etc), and by the logic of Rytlock story, the Revenant make much more sense as a second class, a specialization or something like that. Gameplay wise, ANET decided Revenants to be a normal, basic class. Therefore the incoherence.

When did they say Rytlock became ascended? Is this just speculation, I havent seen any info about it.

I still don’t see why Rytlock wouldn’t be able to teach new player characters how to become revenants. You don’t start the game as a total noob (you may be level 1 but that doesn’t mean you dont know how to fight). The level system is just a learning gate for the player, not the profession. Maybe its just me but people have really seemed to overthink this new profession (level 80 initially, its own starter zone, unique personal story, etc.).

Tron.3471:

Why wouldn’t Rytlock not teach noobs how to be revenants? What’s the lore explaining that?

Are you seriously asking that question? Or are you just trolling?