Guild Wars 2

Looking at the Revenant discussions that have been going on since the profession was first show cased it seems clear that there is a major concern players have with the Revenant that hasn’t been addressed. It’s usually mixed in among other feedback and suggestions but my opinion is that this is a big enough concern to merit it’s own thread.

The question I am referring to is whether or not the 6-0 skills assigned to each legend will always be the same set 5 or whether there is the intent to add additional skills or even neutral skills to add some nuance to the builds. For that matter – how will racial skills work?

This will personally be one of the design decisions that makes or breaks this profession for me. If my skill versatility is limited to a mere 3 choices (1 weapon set and 2 legends) then I’ll probably grow bored after the initial new wears off. It’s like the difference between playing Magic the Gathering (build your deck based on rather broad restrictions with ridiculous versatility and nuance) and Smash Up (choose two premade decks, shuffle them, done). Not that the latter isn’t a fun game but when all other professions have build versatility more comparable to the former it just doesn’t appeal.

I think you will grow bored my friend. I think they will change many things: Bump up the dps, lower the energy cost, add additional legends, they may even tie weapon swap to legend swap. But at the core the mechanics of Rev will always be tethered to two legends at a time.

Yea but what about racial skills? Are they getting rid of them? Are Revenants just not allows to use them? What about that Frost Wolf Elite people paid for?

To me it seems that unless they’re getting rid of these they have to allow the Revenant to swap those in, which makes it seem silly not to include the mechanic for others.

In addition, with 4 Legends that gives them a total of 12 utilities currently while post professions have approximately 20. So 4 Legend specific and one set of 4 Legend neutral would be more logical.

So it seems intuitive that they would do this – but there has not be any indication at all that they intend to do so. So far as we’ve been told they plan on releasing the profession with very little customization, the weapons are even all but linked to the Legends.

I really just wish they’d address the lack of customization. Surely by now they have a goal.