Guild Wars 2

Now that I’ve gotten a lot of experience with Revenant and with each of the Legends, especially in WvW, one of them that I feel that needs another look is Ventari.

I used to be of the mindset of leave it as it is: let the player move it around because it sets up some strategic advantages, and it does on a situation basis. These advantages come in hand in situations where you’ll be sitting in one spot for any amount of time. However, if there is any sort of movement needed, the tablet becomes rather difficult to even use.

Now, some people have stated that the tablet should just follow the player around, like a summoned pet. After the months of gameplay, I now agree with them. In this case, instead of positioning the tablet around, the player positions themselves around. However, this removes the advantage of being in one place while the tablet can be in another, such as setting up an exploding tablet (elite skill).

So with that in mind, what are you thoughts about Ventari, now that we’ve had the Revenant for several months now? Should the tablet remain as a Move command or should it Follow like a summoned?

Humm. After getting out of range of the tablet, it will teleport to your position after 5seconds or so, something that could be perhaps shaved down to 3-4 secs with talent choices. The tablet going inactive as it starts its teleport spell, but immediately going active again if you move into range before it finishes the cast.

Basically to emphasize the static nature of the tablet, but not to have to recast it constantly.

Nope a simpler and better solution is removing the cast time in sumoning and moving and removing that delay on movement. Keeps the flavor and increases the skill ceiling.

I would remove the cast time and convert its healing to a heavy pulse every couple seconds instead of on movement.

I think the summoning of the tablet is a good example of over-designed: what else would one do after switching to Ventari? Of course is using the tablet. But why having to summon it is a must? Most practised players these days just press F1 and 6 immediately.

I do not mind the moving because the rationale behind it is not the act of moving the tablet: it is the positioning of it. So remove the summoning silliness and keep the rest of it as it is except if you run out of range, a new tablet will resummon itself automatically right next to you.

The Elite skill is to be remained the same, except once the old tablet is destroyed, a new one will resummon itself automatically right next to you, as it is described above.