Guild Wars 2

I apologize if this has been asked and answered, but could not find any such source. But it looks to me as if the Revenant is very low on number of utility skills – four legends with four heals puts it equal to the other professions, four legends with four elites is one more elite than other professions. But four legends with three utilities is twelve utilities – compared to twenty on other professions. We know the utilities have basic swap ability, but so far they only trade with the other two on that legend.

I am just curious if we simply haven’t seen the last two utilities for the three legends we have seen, or if the Revenant really is to function with eight less skills (well, seven, since it has one more elite) than every other profession. Inquiring minds and all that. (I only truly began to really worry about this with the Shiro announcement, when it said last core legend, last core weapon set, since that meant we weren’t going to see the rest fill up with other legends – additional sets may be limited, since you buy for the whole right bar, but I prefer to have more options than less, and thus I am worried)

Not a panic thing, just a question since I couldn’t find anything on this anywhere. If someone does have that answer, providing it would ease my mind greatly.

It’s a trade-off, you get less number of total utilities but you get to slot 6 utilities instead of 3 utilities. And they added weapon-swap in-order to provide more options when building.

I think its a pretty decent trade. I think of it as having my deathshroud and lich form up constantly while still being able to use my weapons, on my necro. Pretty beastly.

Is that the official answer, or just a guess?

Because it doesn’t seem like a particularly good trade, and the rigid nature of the utilities slotted (if you want one, you must have all five) makes it much less attractive than having a larger number of options, even if that number of possible options is less open than other professions. Because rather than two rigid sets of five, it would be better to have two skills you must take [heal and elite] and three out of five utilities per legend. Which is still more rigid than most professions.

Thats why they change with the Legend swap. Your legends define your operating role, and utility skills change to match that. Other classes also focus far more on their weapon skills then they do utilities; where as the Revenant tends to be more even split between the weapon and utilities.

A lot of that has to do with Traits basically focusing only on sub-set of skills, where for all other classes the the strongest combos would be spread out.

Firseal.4716:

Is that the official answer, or just a guess?

Because it doesn’t seem like a particularly good trade, and the rigid nature of the utilities slotted (if you want one, you must have all five) makes it much less attractive than having a larger number of options, even if that number of possible options is less open than other professions. Because rather than two rigid sets of five, it would be better to have two skills you must take [heal and elite] and three out of five utilities per legend. Which is still more rigid than most professions.

They confirmed, can’t remember when that the utilities are tied to the legend you are channeling, simple as that, and as stated before, it’s a trade off, revenant has more elites but less utilities, that and you seem to be ignoring the whole idea of an energy bar and your utilities/elite not actually having a cooldown, if you don’t like the rigid design play a different profession

Revenant has more elites? In combat or in general? Cus my guardian has 4 elite skills..like rev

Revenant will have one elite skill per legend. Your guardian… guardians have the signet, the shout, and the meditation elites. Any other elite you are seeing there is likely Mistfire Wolf or a racial, unless there’s a fourth elite I’ve never seen on any of my guardians before and isn’t listed in the wiki.

They have confirmed that the utilities are bound to legend, but I do not recall them mentioning the number of utilities on the legend being limited to what we’ve seen, and that was the question I was asking. If so, this is very disappointing news, since it means that effectively when it comes to utilities revenants are incredibly limited.