Guild Wars 2

After testing out the Revenant in WvW and PvP, I completely do not understand why the Revenant only get one weapon set. Unless I missed something drastically or they are going to add/change Legendary Stances to change whether a weapon acts as a melee or range weapon, it seems completely absurd to me that the Revenant will be like the Engineer or Elementalist. I hate that mechanic on both those characters, particularly on the Elementalist since its utility options for range or melee are not permanent, but at least they have options and the Engineer can run tool kit to always have melee available while always having a ranged option. But from what I saw, the Revenant does not get that option, you are stuck in melee or range based on your weapon choice.

Unless something changes or is added, the Revenant might as well be known as the Hammerant, since that is the only weapon I would run since it is better to be stuck at range than in melee; or known as a Rangerant if they add other ranged weapons.

And what everyone else is saying, why do weapon skills use energy AND have recharges, Revs are weak on both the attack and defense, etc.

In theory? to make this the heavy-tier counterpart to elementalist and engineer as a class that uses its mechanics to (more than) make up for lack of weapon variety, in this case using two sets of 6-9 skills to fill in the gaps left by having only one weapon set.

In practice? none of those reasons and I quite honestly cannot see the thought process here.

Why doesn’t Revenant have choices for Legend utility skills is what I am more concerned about. Very limited build diversity.