Guild Wars 2

Revenent felt very weak. There are many threads already addressing this. However, I must say as a main Mesmer, I somehow don’t wanna go back to Mesmer. For some reason I really enjoyed playing Rev. Don’t know if it’s the old energy mechanic, the style of the class or the animation… it somehow is fun, even though I feel hugely underpowered.

I actually most enjoyed staff, with staff #3 and staff #5 being my favorite. I think this profession has potential. And there are many very good suggestions in the forum already on how to make it more viable.

Personally I am looking forward to testing the next iteration of Revenant.

If you’re used to playing a Mesmer, maybe you’re just “into that sort of thing?”

TyPin.9860:

Revenent felt very weak. There are many threads already addressing this. However, I must say as a main Mesmer, I somehow don’t wanna go back to Mesmer. For some reason I really enjoyed playing Rev. Don’t know if it’s the old energy mechanic, the style of the class or the animation… it somehow is fun, even though I feel hugely underpowered.

I actually most enjoyed staff, with staff #3 and staff #5 being my favorite. I think this profession has potential. And there are many very good suggestions in the forum already on how to make it more viable.

Personally I am looking forward to testing the next iteration of Revenant.

I agree. I also like the concept. been playing Rev all weekend.

But poorly executed.

Revenant feel weak, but I’m shure that it’s only because there’s not the best dps weapon aviable (sword for example), the same for the legends (we have only the bunker, the conditioner and the healer).
I’ve try a lot, then I’ve swap on my guardian and try stronghold.
At the begin I had hard time just to kill the cheftain out of the pvp matches. I barely done it. I’ve try to kill the training mesmer and I’ve dealt more damage while in Moa Form than when using the Hammer XD
But in match I’ve been able to deal 1800 every critical hit with the hammer, more with skills. Or if you add the staff and the whirling hammers you can obtain a very good damage. And the staff is our healer weapon.

We’re with a class that can be played at 50% of it’s power, with no dps weapons and legends.

I’ve played with all the weapons and with condition, dps and bunker amulets, with some try.
I felt tha it’s a good class, but hard to mastery. There will be good chances that Revenant will become one of the best class in every situations of the game.

I will wait for the next beta, hoping in a new weapon and legend aviable to play!

i currently main a mesmer too… i played the rev.. then went back on my mesmer… unequipped all weapons but a torch, picked random phastasm traits… equipped 3 signests, disenchanter, and time warp… feels much more fun than a revenant.

rev needs to be either faster (yeah compared to a single off hand torch mesmer) or more powerful (yes compared to a single torch mesmer).

im being serious too.

Well, the rev is weak and has several issues. Maybe it’s only the staff as melee weapon, what fascinates me so much. I am not sure…

If rev becomes more viable, then I might simply switch main to rev… the idea is awesome and they have a Ritualist like theme, which is awesome as well^^ On the other hand… Mesmer becomes chronomancer… ahhhhhhhhhhh… so many things to consider^^

before i played the rev.. i was “OMG I MUST REV MAIN!” but as of right now i am not persuaded just yet. I’d have to play the final form before i decide. I do like rev a lot because it can use most of my gear (previously guardian main, got tired of swinging expensive swords in circle)

Basically, I have all i need to equip a rev, but uh… its not very fun right now. granted I do like a few small aspects.. some utility spamming is pretty fun, (road + mace blast) very very cool looking moves… but like I said.. not fast enough or powerful enough.

What would be cool is if phase smash can actually work properly. it needs to be looked at, I have mentioned it a few times but no one seems to care, but when I am on a wall, I want to hit people below me with my only range weapon.. well I can drop a hammer or throw a hammer. thats. it. not cool, phase smash should allow me to appear down there smash them and bounce back up. Also during that slow cast, there should be a moment of evade/block/invuln… basically this move would just be for show… i’d never use it in real game play.

Chronomancer takes the crown for me right now (mostly because mesmer = fun albeit not op by my standards)…. I hope it changes in new balance/updates of the rev.

Chronomancer definitely feels like it could become a staple for meta groups, while revenant would never fit into any meta in its current state. Mesmer is amazing and I have loved every second of it as my main over the past years, while revenant is still struggling to be useful.

Rev is still going to be my main though, because it has the look and playstyle I’ve had in other games and quite honestly is the kind of class I’ve wanted since the day I started GW2 I love heavy armor and aside from mesmer, all the other classes have been boring as dizzle to me. Specializations will change this, but with the underwhelming Dragonhunter being the only armored mage specialization, revenant is my clear choice.

I’m sorry, mesmer! No matter what happens, you’ll always have a place in my heart<3

I really really like the idea with the Rev. I don’t like how weak I feel when playing mine.

Let’s hope this alpha look(let’s face it it’s not a beta) allows ANet to tweak the numbers a bit for release.