Guild Wars 2

I enjoyed the Revenant beta test this weekend. My feedback is from the perspective of a player who plays exclusively as WvW support guardian. All feedback is constructive.

I primarily tested the Ventari and Dwarf Legends with support traits and hammer. No comment on the DPS builds or staff.

High level observations:

• Dwarf legend is in a great spot. The 7 skill grants Stability and Weakness in an area. It’s ideal for dropping in choke points or keeping the frontline moving. The elite skill is a beast mode Damage Reduction ability on a very low cool down.

• Ventari is kinda meh. As a support Guard who runs symbols, I LOVE area control game play. And area heals are my Guard’s speciality. The tablet was too unresponsive (the best you could hope for is to drop it behind you as you move). Basically, it’s usable in nitch moments like defending and choke points but even then it can’t out-heal burst damage so it’s not worth it.

• Ventari’s 6 skill should cast the table at the pointed location, not on top of the Revenant. Basically, right now you need to switch to Ventari, cast the 6 skill, THEN move the tablet. In WvW the fight has been decided or moved to another location by then, and then you’re stuck playing catch up with the tablet since it moves so slowly.

• Didn’t really use the 8 or 9 skills on Dwarf stance. I found that spamming 7 for Stability and Weakness, the elite skill for tankiness and the hammer AOE skills was enough. The single-target 8 skill was not appealing given the other abilities. I wasn’t going for DPS so the 9 skill went unused by choice too.

• In terms of energy management, I was not clear how it worked. Is just being in combat how you get energy? Attacks only? But the most confusing part was I was no sure why the Dwarf Legend elite was grayed out all the time. Sometimes energy would naturally go up to 49, other times it would go up to 50 which is the energy cost of the elite. Still not sure here.

• In general, I found Dwarf legend to be very tanky. I basically stayed in that mode most of the weekend. Ventari will need big changes to make it effective, and that’s coming from a guy who doesn’t mind sacrificing a lot for frontline support/heals on his Guard.

DroidDreamer.2861:

The elite skill is a beast mode Damage Reduction ability on a very low cool down.

Even factoring the huge energy cost, the very long cast time and the very short duration?

I state no opinion on that. Teh cool down is really low for an elite that gives 50%(?) DR. At least it’s a useable skill. In Dwarf Legend, I found I could survive and participate. In Ventari mode, death would soon follow.

That’s the another point: Dwarf Legend’s heal is dependable and meaningful. There is no initial burst heal in Ventari and the tablet heals but a trickle even when traited for Regen.