Guild Wars 2

I love the Revenant, but there’s virtually no argument that it has a couple of major design problems and fails to even feel a little bit polished until you finish obtaining Glint.

The way that each utility line performs a specific function with very little overlap limits the usefulness of utility swapping. As if that wasn’t enough, there is also little synergy between the functions of their weapons (S/S and Hammer is the only thing resembling an exception, which is why only Power Revs really work). This means that both the Revenant’s utility and weapon swapping are less useful features than you would expect, and the class somehow ends up feeling much more restricted than others pretty much across the board.

This needs to be corrected. My opinion is they need to do one of two things:

1.) add an additional ranged weapon that supports condi (either as full condi or hybrid – my vote is Shortbow) AND one additional melee weapon that is more hybridized than any of their existing options (my vote is either MH Axe or Greatsword).

2.) Remove weapon swap per the original desire and replace it with something more creative, like letting your current legend modify your weapon skills in some way, even if it’s a relatively minor global effect, like extra torment application for Mallyx. This would require some rebalancing of all weapon skills, but it’s still probably easier than #1 overall.

Additionally, they need to do something to increase synergy between the different utilities so that utility swapping isn’t a mostly useless feature. My opinion is that they should add a generic 5th base legend that soft-maps to the Invocation line, which can be used as a bridge legend that works in tandem with other legends. This would also allow them to turn Jalis into true tanking legend as well instead of having it be a somewhat under-tuned “basic” legend with a few tanking features thrown in.

Discuss.

1 I guess they could rework mace to have range similar to ele dagger, but tone down the condis a bit.
2 wat.
I think some of the utilities (legends, right?) have some useless skills and some (ventari, dwarf) are pretty useless overall. dwarf has rite but ventari is so bad I don’t even know where to begin.