Guild Wars 2

In WvW all other classes when using turtle banners and the like all have their utility skills available for use when running. Revenants however have their utility skills hidden as soon as you pick up the banner. Is this a bug? Or is this to stop Revs from using their facets to get that 50% boon duration and share even more boons while using the turtle banner?

Playing revenant is such a liability. No legends aside from mallyx/shiro underwater, no utility skills with wvw banners and utility skills strictly linked to one of the legends. One can meet a revenant on wvw and say about their skills set within 2 seconds.

I sincerly hope it’s a bug though since the class is kinda full of them.

Vasdamas Anklast.1607:

…One can meet a revenant on wvw and say about their skills set within 2 seconds…

I think this was known at the very beginning of designing the Revenant.

I can’t say that switching legends with fixed utility skills is a liability on its own. The whole concept behind the use of two different Legends was to have a legend at a time which specialize in something and switch to the second legend to make up for the drawbacks of the first when the need arises.

I bet that if everything worked OK the whole concept would at least felt different (if not working fine). That should be the Rev’s strong point from the start, I mean what class can change their utility skill set that is focused in something?

As an idea it sounds great but there were some issues :

1) Some legends feel from lacking to useless (reducing available viable choices)
2) Even the better working legends/traitlines have numerous bugs and shortcomings (lessening the usefulness of the already few viable choices)
3) The weapon choices are few (by design) which at least half of them having serious flaws (even more reducing variety of the class)

So yes, when you meet a Revenant you can guess their build and be well prepared for that even before you meet him. This is because the viable choices are so few that anyone willing to have a win chance must stick to them.

In other words, its not the bad concept but the bad implementation of that concept that cause trouble on Revenants.

I have been playing rev for 4 days and I am already fed up with bugs, problems and issues with the profession. I cannot understand how a person can choose to suffer like this. I liked the class but come on…