Guild Wars 2

This is not the most common complaint I have seen for the Revenant but it’s my biggest.

Obviously each weapon and trait line pairs with a legend…

Staff = Ventari
Sword/Sword = Shiro
Mace/Axe = Mallyx
Hammer = Jalis

It’s not that I think this is a bad idea, but I feel that the traits and weapons are too closely married with their legend. There’s not a lot of mixing and matching opportunites. Don’t like the Ventari skill set? Say goodbye to the Staff or anything from the Salvation trait line. Not a fan of Mallyx? Then there’s not really a point to using Corruption or Mace.

Maybe this is how every profession is, but I don’t feel that way when I play them. Maybe the overall lack in customization on the Revenant brings out this feeling for me. Coupled with the inability to customize any of your skill bar beyond legend choice it leaves me with the feeling that I don’t get much of a choice in deciding how to build, and by extension how to play, a Revenant. The term that comes up for me over and over is “pigeonholed”.

Am I off base? Does anyone else feel this way?

You are wrong on certain things. The trait lines are pretty married to their legends but the weapons are not. I was running dual swords/hammer on Mallyx POWER build and it was doing great for the most part. Also Staff works REALLY well with Shiro as does Hammer.

Didn’t try mace so I can’t comment on that but axe was run by a lot of Revenant players with power builds for the gap closer.

I agree Axe is pretty flexible. I also tried Staff on Shiro, it was not bad but it felt weird. I think Sword/anything fits much better.

I do think the problem is more severe with the traits. There is not much choice overall.

When you compare it to Ele, Guardian, or Mesmer which are arguably the most powerful classes in the game right now, yeah traits are very limited. Those have so many viable builds compared to everything else so I know where you’re coming from. With Revenant we are limited to picking trait lines depending on our legends.

Disagree. You can run m/a without mallyx. I actually found it better with jalis + shiro often :P

Rain.9213:

You are wrong on certain things. The trait lines are pretty married to their legends but the weapons are not. I was running dual swords/hammer on Mallyx POWER build and it was doing great for the most part. Also Staff works REALLY well with Shiro as does Hammer.

Didn’t try mace so I can’t comment on that but axe was run by a lot of Revenant players with power builds for the gap closer.

Lol! Not once have I thought about trying Sword/Axe this time around XDDD On to-do list for next time.