Guild Wars 2

It just seems so barebones compared to other classes. We have 5 legends, each with only 3 utilities excluding the active usages of each skill. To compare, elementalist has tons of skills which can change into whole new skills depending on what element you’re attuned to. Engineer also has tool kits alongside a dozen utilities not included in the kits.

The Glint legend for rev is also part of the class’s elite specialization, which are optional for every other class but Herald is basically mandatory for most rev builds (I haven’t seen any popular builds that don’t use Glint). Elite specs are supposed to be a bonus for every class, offering a new weapon and playstyle to keep things fresh. For Revenant, the specialization forms the base of most builds and you will be at a disadvantage if you don’t use it. I also find Glint doesn’t synergize with other legends super well, as your facets are reset if you switch to another legend.

I definitley feel that Revenant definitley needs more skills to add more depth and variability to the class. One way to do this would be with weapon skills, having them change depending on what legend you are using. For example, sword having lots of fast dps attacks if you’re using Shiro and more defensive skills focused on blocking and parrying if you’re using Jalis. Right now, every weapon just has it’s default non-legend skills. For more legends, it would cool to see one for each member of Destiny’s Edge, harnessing the abilities of Rytlock, Caithe, etc.

Now I don’t know a lot about the class compared to some of you experts who have tested the class extensively in every part of the game, but these are just some thoughts I’ve had from playing around in Verdant Brink. I definitley want to try maining Revenant but I feel like it will get boring with so few skills and potential builds compared to other classes.

sometimes, less is more

I don’t think weapon function should be tied to the active legend, that would be pretty restricting to build variety. I do like the underwater (spear) method which uses two auto-attacks – one melee / direct damage and one ranged / condition damage. This could be cool on the terrestrial weapons as well – except that since the addition of weapon swap for BWE2 onwards, it is completely unnecessary.

I do think, however, that Rev could use another weapon (many point out that Rev lacks a ranged condition weapon).

It’s less variety and more focus.

I agree that Herald is considered mandatory now as it offers a lot of variety, but that’s because an elite spec has to have synergy with the base specs. Which in turn means that each new Elite Legend has to have Synergy with the base legends. I don’t see a base Revenant being used unless massive changes come (which we might see between now and the next group of Elite specs).

However, I doubt it’ll ever be the case where two base legends would be used together as they each fulfill different roles. Shiro+Devastation+Sword is the direct/physical damage setup. Mallyx+Corruption+Mace is the positional condition damage setup. Ventari+Salvation+Staff is the light control/heavy support role. Jalis+Retribution is the heavy control role. (I don’t put hammer with Jalis as it’s a multi-legend weapon.)

Glint+Herald offers boon support as well as a powerful heal, extra control, a good burst of vuln, and a burst of conditions. All of the other 4 get added extra things by going with Herald.

And it’s clear that Revenant was made with Herald in mind at launch. There are going to be other elite specs and other legends that will be added. That’s why I don’t think Revenant needs a long range condi weapon now. It’d be too strong with Herald. So if they put it with another elite spec, you’d have to choose between long range condi application or Herald. My hope is that the next elite spec is based around Wells or something similar. Revenant doesn’t have many ground-targetted AoEs and each one of the base legends can benefit in some way from those.

Azure.8670:

sometimes, less is more

Agreed. People should spend more time with it when the expansion comes out. This would have been true before we got weapon swap, but it has been fins since then.