Guild Wars 2

So…. August 1st came and went, and I’ve been mulling over returning to Guild Wars 2 after the announcement. I’ve been an on and off casual gamer for a while since Guild Wars has been released. While my first created character was back from October of release, my “Oldest” character only just hit his 3 year Birthday (curses to myself for throwing away my characters like candy. I kind of wish ‘Birthday’ gifts were account bound and not Character bound. But let’s not reveal on that sour spilled milk…).

Anyway, I’ve been discussing with a few of my co-workers about them joining the game when I come back for the update, musing over the idea about them joining the base game and upgrading if they enjoy it. One of them wants to play the Sylvari Elementalist, while the other seems interested in Chaar Engineer. Myself, I’ve been interested in the Revenant class and might go with my tried and true favorite Norn race, but I’ve been mulling over the ideas of other races as well.

Any tips or advice from you guys that you could give to new and/or returning players? I won’t lie, the last time I played was the opening for Gw2 HoT, I haven’t even finished the story – let alone participated in Living Worlds. I’ll probably be buying the living worlds for myself (and playing with friends if I can play with them without them needing to purchase it).

Second Question: Are there any Racial skills I should look into for certain builds or classes? Specifically, I like the Guardian, Revenant, Ranger, and Necromancer Classes for myself. I know some builds use Chaar’s Battlecry as one of their go-to Might and Fury buffer, but I was wondering if there were other interesting Racial skills to look at. Please provide any advice you’ed be willing to give.

Racial skills are typically inferior to class skills but occasionally the devs nerfs some skills far enough that a racial skill is actually better for the purpose.

Lol, I guess the title for this thread was a little misleading… Curses for not having more than 45 characters for the thread title!

AlphaWolvesGamer.5790:

Myself, I’ve been interested in the Revenant class and might go with my tried and true favorite Norn race, but I’ve been mulling over the ideas of other races as well.

I have to inform you.
Revenant doesn’t get the luxury of having racial skill.

Any race that pick revenant class doesn’t get access to racial skill.

Racial skills are far from the best, but I can see a few instances where they can actually be nice to use, as long as you don’t need peak performance.
They are designed around ‘okay’ power, but have extreme cooldowns, so they’re not very nice to use.
A few skills that are still worth for low-risk play may include the prayer of Balthazar for humans, or the Toxic Waste for asura. The transformations of the Norn have sadly been completely annihialated, which is a shame since that was the whole thing Norn were supposed to do. Without it, they’re just big humans.