Guild Wars 2

On the specialization page of the Heart of Thorns website, the Herald is being shown with a dagger in his right hand.

So dagger was a thing?

source: http://heartofthorns.guildwars2.com/game/specializations

It’s a Norn with an Asura Sword :-P

NapTooN.6283:

It’s a Norn with an Asura Sword :-P

It’s rather a bulky Sylvari…

I was just about to post the same topic.
It is very weird. All of them are holding their new weapon, except for herald who is holding dagger that he cannot even use.
…Maybe you can give us main hand dagger to complement the shield? Revenants have the least number of the skills in the game anyway. …Or at least you could change that artwork, it is misleading.

already posted about it in 2 different threads 12 hours ago…but yes

dagger, would also be the first heavy class to use this weapon

They just put in the wrong picture I think. It should be this one:
https://agegaming.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/gw2-herald.jpg

i also noticed, that the dagger picture has a crystal styled gauntlet, while the one without a dagger has a more neutral gauntlet that could be anything.

Dagger ranged condi weapon, pl0x? :}

Maybe they were thinking of adding the dagger as part of the specialization at first but then decided not to, hence why they removed it for the herald reveal?

Maybe they will release it as a baseline weapon for the revenant instead of as a specialization weapon? I don’t think they would add the weapon to a reveal picture unless they had been working on it for the profession. I can’t imagine they completely scrapped the idea. At least not without replacing it with something else.

making it a midrange condi and boon removal weapon would be interesting.
also another range weapon is frequently requests as well as another condi weapon.

i think animation would be cutting rifts, similar to the axe skill

Conner.5803:

On the specialization page of the Heart of Thorns website, the Herald is being shown with a dagger in his right hand.

So dagger was a thing?

source: http://heartofthorns.guildwars2.com/game/specializations

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/revenant/More-weapons-later-on/first#post5432167

It’ s mh with oh shield too, so it’s not an elite spec (you can’t have 2 at the same time). In an earlier datamined version revenant had dagger instead of sword. Pretty sure you can still find it in dulfy archive