So with current huge Reddit post and all Devs responding, I decided to get more official response and confirmation on question if Revenant (and possibly other professions) still has some dedicated Devs (Roy in our case) and got the answer from Roy.
Nothing to dramatize about, as I knew it before and I believe there are some good updates incoming (hope, at least), but I will leave link to it here:
Yup, a bit after the launch of HoT I transitioned teams to be team lead on creatures, working on expansion 2. You are in good hands with /u/Anet_KarlMcLain and the rest of the skills and balance team. I’m still involved with that team though and provide lots of advice and feedback,
Pretty much all elite specs made by Karl are a fail and theres a good reason for it. Rev will get karled as well at this point as we can clearly see it already. In best case we will get number tweaks and thats about it.
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Great…I don’t necessarily know who Karl is, but considering the last “balance” patch I don’t have high hopes, I get the sword nerf I do think it was needed somewhat, what kittened me off was what WASN’T included, as in buffing, Ventari and Jalis, and you know…reworking Mallyx the Unyielding since you completely gutted his playstyle from the beta and then did very little to make up for it, also maybe consider taking another look at Shiro and Glint since, again, you kind of killed a few traits of theirs cough Radiant Revival cough
I don’t have need this advice for knowing that Roy isn’t more the revenant dev,leaving the class in the hands of balance team that only know to increase damage by 5% and decreases multiplicators.. Hopefully i have changed main class in time.
Revenant is going to still a beta class for years. Have fun!
As I’ve commented elsewhere, I think that’s actually part of the cause of the current problem with elite specialisations. People didn’t like the concept of the tempest and dragonhunter, and complained*. Where ArenaNet’s response should have been an acknowledgement that some of the elite specialisations were taking the professions in different directions and that they’d make sure the core professions remained viable so people who preferred the core gameplay could continue playing it, they instead overbuffed the specialisations in an attempt to get people to like them anyway.
*Personally, I like them, but I like them as an additional option, not as ‘this is how you need to play now’.
To those who think Scarlet hate means she’s succeeded as a villain:
People don’t hate Scarlet like Game of Thrones fans hate Joffrey.
They hate her the way Star Wars fans hate Jar Jar Binks.
People complained about daredevil too and tbh.. in all of these 3 specs i dont see any point.
DD – basically old acro line for thief with extra dodge and upgrades to them. Fail name and fail icon..
Tempest – Im not sure what this spec is supposed to do? Ele was already bunker so lets gime them some more bunkering or wtf? This name sounds like it should be dps oriented spec but its another support junk
DH – longbow.. that was needed as scepter is a fail which wont be buffed ever. But traps? Srsly? Guard is already full of symbol skills, what does traps bring to the table? Not to mention that dh is just a passive kitten class. Also fail name
So yeah if we are in the hands of “you know who” rev is doomed. Dont count for anything else than some changes like +5% dmg, -5% dmg etc as it was with all of the specs above.
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I just want to precise that i have nothing against Karl and balance team personnaly. I’m pretty sure they are nice guys in real life. But they don’t know how to balance things or they don’t even play gw2 that’s pretty sure.
Don’t speaking about inspiration of the elite specs (that’s another topic) but it’s clear that the “elite” specs which was designed for being an alternative playstile are actually a must have don’t balancing or tweeking the core classe, thing that some classes need (specially heavy ones) i like the idea but in game it’s pretty horrible, you are forced to play the new way elite spec bring. And that is kittening horrible! At least if they can’t balance core classes well i hope they can make elite specs less powerfull or bringing less utility to be able to compete with core and bring an ALTERNATIVE playstyle.
Ha! If the revenant is in the balance team’s hands, than I’m pretty sure the revenant is gonna be nothing more than a boon bot. The balance team never treats core game issues but rather symptoms that arise because of core game issues.
A knight in shining armor is a man who never had his metal truly tested.
