Guild Wars 2

If you didn’t know by now Herald’s soft music after activating a facet comes from here.

And the same track was remade in Season 2 for Glint’s Lair.

Didn’t get to play GW1 so just now I found out this, so amazing.

Man I really like the concept of Revenant/Herald and specially because of how great the lore is in this game, so I really find it sad how much bashing this class gets from the PvP esportzzz guys in the PvP forums, just because it is at the moment a somewhat “solid” class despise the lack of build diversity. As if this game was a PvP centric game instead of the MMORPG it actually is.

I just really fear for the future of this class, as it is already struggling in PvE and only really wanted to serve as a boonbot and for WvW it is only “good” for Hammer 2 spam. Yet here in the PvP forums there’s still the occasional thread asking for huge overnerfs with no real arguments but this:

“Mang fukn revenants are so unkillable with all the dozens of dodges and blocks and fulls heals they have, they also have like no cds or energy costs and r the easiest class to play, fukn ANET mang its all p2w” (Even read once an entire thread of how OP Jallis actually was because it has spammable 80%+ damage reduction)

Also the recent nerf to Riposting Shadows was huge, from 50 endurance to only 25. Almost as drastic as they overnerf shield got a while ago. Either way I thought it was somewhat reasonable so I just tried to get over it… but what happens then? The really loudly super “pro” mlg people at the pvp forums kept with the same bs, and alot of them even said that Revenant was getting even more “OP” because of the Ventari and offhand-sword “buffs”… Like, wow

So I’ve came the the conclusion that this really loudly toxic players won’t stop it until Revenant gets completly out of radar, “Cause kitten whatever is new! I dun like change. I love monotony and no innovation”

And this actually happens with anything that is new in a game, be it a new weapon or a new class like in this case. Seriously I’ve seen the same thing happen in the other games I’ve played and in most cases this kind of people won’t stop crying in the forums until it gets completely overnerfed and is used by almost no one.

And while there are indeed cases where something is indeed OP this is not one of them, not after all this nerfs Revenant has been getting since day 1.

I just really hope ANET is being smart on what and who to listen. And something tells me that they maybe are after seeing that this last patch wasn’t as full of nerfs as the one we got post S1 with the massive damage and shield nerfs.

And either way we have been getting nerfs since they very first days of HoT but no one seems to ever put attention.

Some of the ones I still remember:

Staff 5 – Reduced damage

Infused Light – Reduced duration

Mallyx

Shield 5 – Increased cd

Phase Traversal – from no cd to 5s cd

Unwavering Avoidance – added cd

Radiant Revival – Removed Infused Light for ally

Infused Light again – Added cast time

Sword AA – 30% ish + nerfs

UA – 20%+ over all damage reduced and evade frames reduced

Shield 5 again – 40%+ healing reduced

Enchanted Daggers – Damage and healing reduced

Riposting Shadows – Endurance gain reduced by 50%

And again, I’m not really complaining about all the big amount of nerfs we have been getting, but that it seems that a good amount of players just want Revenant to be unplayable. My only hope is that ANET isn’t that afraid of its players.

Like how they have even been nerfing PvE difficulty even before the game was out of beta and still happening today with HoT just because players dont want to “Learn to play”. It’s essentially the same thing with PvP, alot of players expect to not have to rethink their “strategies” when something new is out, even a simple patch and that no other player can be more skilled than them.

So please choose carefully what to listen to and what to not ANET.

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I just really hope ANET is being smart on what and who to listen. And something tells me that they maybe are after seeing that this last patch wasn’t as full of nerfs as the one we got post S1 with the massive damage and shield nerfs.

And either way we have been getting nerfs since they very first days of HoT but no one seems to ever put attention.

Some of the ones I still remember:

Staff 5 – Reduced damage

Infused Light – Reduced duration

Mallyx

Shield 5 – Increased cd

Phase Traversal – from no cd to 5s cd

Unwavering Avoidance – added cd

Radiant Revival – Removed Infused Light for ally

Infused Light again – Added cast time

Sword AA – 30% ish + nerfs

UA – 20%+ over all damage reduced and evade frames reduced

Shield 5 again – 40%+ healing reduced

Enchanted Daggers – Damage and healing reduced

Riposting Shadows – Endurance gain reduced by 50%

And again, I’m not really complaining about all the big amount of nerfs we have been getting, but that it seems that a good amount of players just want Revenant to be unplayable. My only hope is that ANET isn’t that afraid of its players.

Like how they have even been nerfing PvE difficulty even before the game was out of beta and still happening today with HoT just because players dont want to “Learn to play”. It’s essentially the same thing with PvP, alot of players expect to not have to rethink their “strategies” when something new is out, even a simple patch and that no other player can be more skilled than them.

So please choose carefully what to listen to and what to not ANET.

Well I’m interested in the Ventari OP topic can’t even imagine how they argued this out.
(The jalis one I had already seen.)
On the bright side now that shiro is on the same level as glint, mallyxs shortcomings are actually noticeable and it’s easier to argue for buffs.

Yeah, I’m a bit worried they are going to overnerf Revenants too. Right now, it’s been my favorite class since pre-beta. I’d hate to see it go down the drain.

You’re “rant” about nerfing in other games reminds me of DAoC when the Vampiir class came out. It was new and many people didn’t know how to counter it, and yeah, it was a bit OP’d. It just needed a small numbers tweak, but they overnerfed it and people stopped playing it.

I personally feel that Revenant is pretty close to being in a good spot. It just needs some QoL adjustments.