Guild Wars 2

General Non-Legend Revenant Utility Skills?

Utility skills are called “utility” skills for a reason. Players use utility skills to optimize their builds and to provide the utility their builds would otherwise lack: i.e., condition removal, boon upkeep, stun break, mobility, etc. Of course the engineer loses utilities when they equip kits, but they also have their toolbelt skills which often provides its own set of utility functions: e.g. elixir kit’s stunbreak/regen, bomb kit’s blast finisher/knockback. Utility skills are often swapped out as the occasion calls for it. You know you may need more group support in one fight or projectile reflect an other.

But we have no control over our utilities with the Revenant apart from picking which two sets we have. This sometimes makes some of these skills relatively useless on our action bar depending on the situation. We are stuck with these utilities. Revenants may be able to swap utilities, but they do not get the option of selecting

Suggestion: Add General Revenant Utilities that are tied to the Mists but not particular Legends. Call them “Mist Weaving” skills or something. These skills would represent the Revenant’s general training with mist energy. These general utilities can be used to replace any given utility skill on a given legend. Such skills may include a stunbreak, condition removal, speed boost, gap closers, or a teleport. The sort of utility skills that people are clamoring for to equip on their Revenant. These Mistweaving Skills could then be tied to the non-Legend specific Invocation Traitline.

This would also fit with the fact Revenants are returning from The Mist with A) new magical power B) had a life before entering The Mist which should be reflected in being able to transform knowledge from both places. As for utility and elite there could be traces from each professional skill which now are being transformed into a new set of powerful skills (lets us call these “Essence” instead of “Legends”). Essence would also help player which have been playing other profession to learn how to use these new utility/elite/healing and still be able to have Legends as a baseline.

The Keyword for The Mist is ascended beings to some degree; meaning that Revanant should provide tools/skills both from a life before entering The Mist and now with new knowledge and powers can administer also this mystical power with energy (or what ever solution there might be for balance of CD/energy).

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Forgot that OP suggested Mistwave as a name for these skills. In any case both would work to give Legends and Mistwave/Essence more flexibility and fit to any kind of a lore about the Mist as a place where Rytlock (or player) returned from as a Revenant. It would address L2P issues and make it work within a group setting better as it would have something that reminds about what other player also have but now with an added edge from The Mist.

I’m glad you like the idea. Mist Weaving was simply a sample name for these general revenant utility skills.