Guild Wars 2

In my opinion, I think that the revenant is in need of a small group of legend neutral utility skills, like one heal, 4 utilities and maybe an elite. These skills would be about to slot into any other legends utilities and would allow a revenant to change out some the less used skills of a legend for a neutral one. One glaring problem with this idea is ventari and for that the revenant would not be able to re-slot the heal but the others could be re-sloted.

These skills could also be tied in to the invocation trait line, like that of the arcane line for ele. They would also function purely like utilities, like a portal skill akin to a mesmer’s or a mist field that cleanses conditions or gave evade in an area for a very short time. They could also give energy instead of draining but have an extremely long cd if that route was taken. Just food for thought. Please share your ideas with me if you could see this working.

I agree. Revenant feels really limited in it’s build diversity, and its really predictable in PvP, because you’ll always know what its running.

I also specifically want the ability to swap skills on Revenant just to get rid of Pain Absorption on Mallyx. Its a useless skill that does nothing. Everybody runs their own condi cleanse, no matter what game type you’re in, and the horribly long cast time on it means everybody can cleansed before you can pull condis from allies to yourself. The tooltip might as well say “No effect.”

Hmm…hows about nty? Utility skills are fine, theres no need to add more. Its a tradeoff for second bar of utility in combat.

I like the utilities the way they are.

I think it’s too late for these kind of suggestions anyway. The class mechanics are pretty much set in very solid stone at this point. Five days to go!

it’s fine as is, and this one little thing is going to convince a whole mess of people not to play Revenant for long, so we won’t be swimming in them.

Demented Yak.6105:

I like the utilities the way they are.

I think it’s too late for these kind of suggestions anyway. The class mechanics are pretty much set in very solid stone at this point. Five days to go!

This.

I wouldn’t object to it on principle, and it would also allow racial skills to not be useless for a revenant. That said, if it does become practical to add more skills to the base revenant, there are things I’d prioritise higher. A condition-based ranged weapon for a start. But at this point, we’re not going to see entirely new skills introduced. I’d expect they’ve locked down major changes at this point and are focusing on ironing out as many bugs as possible before Friday.

I would definitely support this but not with racial skills;
some revenant neutral utilities would be cool to see and create more build diversity, skills that would not be based on channeling a legend but rather skills based on using the mist.
Thats not to say that I dont like the current way revenant works: I absolutely love it, I just think that this is a cool idea and would make sense.