Guild Wars 2

Before you continue to read this, I would not consider myself a veteran of this game by any means. Though I’ve played since launch, it’s been mostly casual and with occasional very long breaks. That said, I feel the aesthetic of the revenant is in a very good place (I plain on swapping to rev as my main come HoT for this reason alone). I love the way this class feels, but I’m sure we all can agree it has problems currently.

As you all know, it seems each of these weapon sets has been designed with a particular legend in mind. I love this concept, but it does beg the question of why we’re allowed to swap legends but not weapons. Rather than simply adding in a weapon swap as some of you have requested (I’ve never liked the idea of swaps anyway. Where do we keep all of these spare weapons?) we could simply change the weapon abilities based on the currently slotted legend similarly to attunements on an elementalist. This is also the wrong approach I feel. The devs have the right idea with these weapons, but the wrong implementation in my opinion.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems weapons in this game have always been created to fill some role in a class, and to the revenant it seems weapons and legends are synonomous. We should not be adapting weapons to a legend, but rather enhancing all legends based on weapon choice while taking into account the legend it’s tied to. For example, take some of the conditions off of Mallyx’s weapon set and instead give the “legendary demon stance” a passive effect to apply condition x on every xth weapon skill (or something similar. I’m sure you get the idea.). Additionally, your weapon set would further amplify your current legends stance by adding another different effect (did you equip the staff of Ventari? Have 25% increase to your healing output or something.) The effects given by the weapon should reflect the legend it’s tied to in some way so you can slot the weapon you want to play with to the legends you want to run without feeling like you’re completely gimping yourself. This could lead to metas such as a “tanky Mallyx” or “supportive Shiro.”

Bear in mind this is just the start of a real idea. I hope some of the more experienced members of our community would be able to take this idea and run with it. I would love to hear your thoughts on this (or you can rip it to shreads if you want. It’s just my two cents based on the direction I want to see the revenant taken.) I’m also not claiming this should be the only enhancement but could at least add a bit of customization to a class which could use a bit more.

Edit – Spelling