Guild Wars 2

Speculation; Revenant is being hyped and marketed as an awesome heavy armor class in order to attract upcoming sales, while we warriors have been progressively nerfed over the past year.

For WvW will you switch to Revenant or continue as a Warrior?

Actually, if you play in dungeon it’s the best class ever.
In www have a place to heal, clean conditions and revive (a good support class, but if you like to hit the enemy that’s not your role… I’m sad…).
In spvp is better try to play engi or ele. Seriously. You can help your team with CC or clean condition + heal, but if you want to kill someone in 1vs1 you have to be a very experienced warrior, expecially with the recent meta class/build. And if you try to fight in 1vs1 tournaments with 1vs1 roles (obliviously not the “official” roles for the game but the “1vs1” roles, it’s better if you play engi, ele or mesmer… seriously).

Then…
I like my warrior so much that I think that I will keep it after the HOT expension release. But I also want to take a look over the Revenant.

If the Revenant will fit the “warrior” role better than the warrior (that because the Revenant will be obliviously the best class ever for everything because ANet can’t add a bad class in the game and need to make it a little stronger than the others to be the Big One New Thing of Heart of Thorns expansion) I can think about a reroll.
But all depend in what Revenant Can and Can’t Do.

For WWW I’ve already switched into Necro because it’s the best dps of the www builds.
But in pve and tspvp I play warrior.

Lol, we don’t even know 60% of the revenant’s skills and we are already making them to be overpowered…

Revenant in all formats <3

And it has nothing to do with hype, marketing etc. Personally i dont like weapon swap mechanic as certain weapons feels incomplete without offset (hundred junk anyone?) which is a big let down to me.

I have been waiting for a class with offensive dark magic in heavy armour since launch. On top of that energy management (something i love to do as it promotes skillful gameplay) and utility swap allowing me to adapt to any situation as long i manage to control my energy well unlike utilities that has huge cd’s and are in fact one trick pony/panic buttoms. In this case i wont feel that i am limited by the class, if anything i will feel limited by myself cause in no cd utilities nobody can complain about lack of tools as long they use them wisely.

Also theres nothing worse than starting a new fight after previous one on cd’s which puts you on huge disadvantage and most likely you lsoe that one or being unable anything to do cus your utility is already on long cd cause you used one – gg. Im sure everyone wished at some point to have not have these cd’s – just imagine stances that has no cd’s and instead draining your adrenaline.

Also DAT ANIMATIONS!

Allow me to present a summary of how warrior is being “balanced” :

Berserker’s Power: This trait has been moved to the Grandmaster tier.

Heightened Focus: This trait has been moved to the Grandmaster tier.

Empower Allies: This trait has been moved to tier 2.

Skull Crack: Increased the cast time from .25 seconds to .5 seconds. Updated the animation and effects of this skill to be more clear.

Earthshaker: Reduced the damage by 20%.

Staggering Blow: Reduced the damage by 23%.

Arcing Shot: The damage of this skill has been reduced by 15%.

Merciless Hammer: Damage to stunned and knocked down foes has been decreased from 25% to 20%.

Healing Signet: Reduced the passive heal by 8%.

Pin Down: Added a new warm-up effect. Increased the cast time from .25 seconds to .75 seconds.

Increased the adrenaline decay rate when out of combat by 100%.
Adrenaline now begins to decay the moment combat ends.

Hundred Blades: Lowered damage of initial strikes by 5% each. Final strike remains unchanged.

Whirlwind Attack: Lowered damage of each strike by 5%.

Signet of Rage: Reduced duration of might, fury, and swiftness from 30 seconds to 25 seconds.

Does that answer your question? :/

Lampshade.7569:

Allow me to present a summary of how warrior is being “balanced” :

Berserker’s Power: This trait has been moved to the Grandmaster tier.

Heightened Focus: This trait has been moved to the Grandmaster tier.

Empower Allies: This trait has been moved to tier 2.

Skull Crack: Increased the cast time from .25 seconds to .5 seconds. Updated the animation and effects of this skill to be more clear.

Earthshaker: Reduced the damage by 20%.

Staggering Blow: Reduced the damage by 23%.

Arcing Shot: The damage of this skill has been reduced by 15%.

Merciless Hammer: Damage to stunned and knocked down foes has been decreased from 25% to 20%.

Healing Signet: Reduced the passive heal by 8%.

Pin Down: Added a new warm-up effect. Increased the cast time from .25 seconds to .75 seconds.

Increased the adrenaline decay rate when out of combat by 100%.
Adrenaline now begins to decay the moment combat ends.

Hundred Blades: Lowered damage of initial strikes by 5% each. Final strike remains unchanged.

Whirlwind Attack: Lowered damage of each strike by 5%.

Signet of Rage: Reduced duration of might, fury, and swiftness from 30 seconds to 25 seconds.

Does that answer your question? :/

you forgot to mention all the buffs… I think they call that DISHONESTY, BIAS or IGNORANCE.

Psh,i’ll never give up on warrior no matter how much they nerf it,and revenant wont be a warrior,it’s some wannabee.

Bryan.8527:

Speculation; Revenant is being hyped and marketed as an awesome heavy armor class in order to attract upcoming sales, while we warriors have been progressively nerfed over the past year.

For WvW will you switch to Revenant or continue as a Warrior?

I will probably switch to Revenant for wvw simply for how easily they are going to be able to tag mobs. It will probably be almost as easy as necro and they’ve only shown us a little of the class. Not to mention the group heals/ aoe endure pain etc.
just on hammer
-50% up-time reflect.
-skill 2 forward large aoe
-add vengeful hammers into the mix and everything is getting aoe tagged as long as you get relatively near it or even just run past.

I’m sure after the new toy effect dies off I might go back to warrior, just afraid the rev will be too nice in some ways. At least in WvW.

Iam switching. sorry I love you all Warriors but its part of becoming an adult. As Adults we learn when its best time to move on from something that isnt working. And well, Warriors just isnt working. much love…

Probably both because sPvP requires to multi-class to be compete with the strongest.

i’ll play it for sure i already main two classes so i doubt it will end up being a main- i mean engineer hammer is probably going to be all i play.

How can you possibly answer this without having played either Revenant or warrior post expansion?

Just try both.

Well for Hype yes everyone gonna play Revenant.

in what we have seen so far, Revenant could be a great candidate for WvW zerging, but in roaming i dont think so, it seems to have less mobility than even a Guardian.

Juba.8406:

Well for Hype yes everyone gonna play Revenant.

in what we have seen so far, Revenant could be a great candidate for WvW zerging, but in roaming i dont think so, it seems to have less mobility than even a Guardian.

This.

But we don’t know a lot right now, so they might get help in that department. The horror would be that they do get mobility, but on some lame condi spec.

i have 6 lvl 80 characters (without necro and engie…..yet..) While i mostly do play my warrior and guardian im also using others depending on what i wanna do .

use thief for scouting/roaming , mesmer and ele for some dungeons and pvp ect.

That being said im sure ill lvl a revenant as well. While some skills have been leek’d its can all change before the final HoT release and even THEN they could also nerf revenants if it prooves to be op or something

Juba.8406:

Well for Hype yes everyone gonna play Revenant.

in what we have seen so far, Revenant could be a great candidate for WvW zerging, but in roaming i dont think so, it seems to have less mobility than even a Guardian.

In one review it have been said already that their mobility in combat will match thief out of combat. Ofc that means outside of combat they be slow as f. And i know..his weapons doesnt have mobility but you cant think about revenant this way.

In case of revenant utility = weapon and weapon = utility. If the interview dindt lie then one of his legends will have to be mainly focused on mobility < personally i hope its Glint.

Also based on leaks he lacked burst abilities..i wonder which legend can provide these..

Bryan.8527:

Speculation; Revenant is being hyped and marketed as an awesome heavy armor class in order to attract upcoming sales, while we warriors have been progressively nerfed over the past year.

For WvW will you switch to Revenant or continue as a Warrior?

Don’t believe the hype. Don’t believe them, remember hype about spvp and look where it is now. Remember what happened to warrior (high armor & high hp joke) and how they didnt have clue what to do with pvp and how to balance.

Rember SOTG events and all false promises from Jonathan Sharp and others.

Just look where we r now… We dont have fun in pvp (only 1 ultra boring game mode). We dont have endgame pve content (nothing to play for). There is no use for guilds…

GW2 did not fulfill a single promise, r we ready for new ones?

Wooyadeen.6491:

Bryan.8527:

Speculation; Revenant is being hyped and marketed as an awesome heavy armor class in order to attract upcoming sales, while we warriors have been progressively nerfed over the past year.

For WvW will you switch to Revenant or continue as a Warrior?

Don’t believe the hype. Don’t believe them, remember hype about spvp and look where it is now. Remember what happened to warrior (high armor & high hp joke) and how they didnt have clue what to do with pvp and how to balance.

Rember SOTG events and all false promises from Jonathan Sharp and others.

Just look where we r now… We dont have fun in pvp (only 1 ultra boring game mode). We dont have endgame pve content (nothing to play for). There is no use for guilds…

GW2 did not fulfill a single promise, r we ready for new ones?

Its a trap.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMuLD4rjUM0

Vizardlorde.8243:

Lol, we don’t even know 60% of the revenant’s skills and we are already making them to be overpowered…

I can say that the Revenant will be OP for 2 reasons:

1) he will be able to use a large amount of “Spirits” (don’t remember the name) and that will make he able to obtain a bunker+berserker comb just with press F1 when need to defend or attack. And he will be able to mix different kind of utility, elite and healing skill in zero time. Think about that: are you a revenant with low hp? Use your healing skill, then press F1 and REUSE your healing skill, because you will botain a New Healing skill that you’ve not already used. If you can use 2 healing skills combined you can be better than any other profession. Expecially if they make a spirit that give healing-based utility skills. You will be able to bunker and heal or to zerg and heal so easy that no one will be able to kill you.

2) For tha little amount of skills that I’ve already seen I can say that Revenant will be OP. Look at it’s mace+axe skills! In one skill make a firefield, with the other blast it 3 TIMES!!! It’s 9 stack of myght, bro! And if you see the cooldown a revenant can do that every 8 seconds! 9 stack of might every 8 seconds! Without any other sigil, rune or trait! In just 2 skills that deal both direct and condition damage!

No… Revenant will not be OP…

Silv.9207:

No… Revenant will not be OP…

It not like Anet never overbuffs anything or fails to catch broken mechanic, and lets not forget whack-a-mole balancing.

But seriously it could go one of three ways, the profession is too weak at launch and might be in OKish place in 2-3 years, it is overtuned and will make warriors and thieves feel like they are anet favored children, or a miracle happens and it is balance to perfection and set the standard in which (probably unrealistically) anet will be held to for the remain 8 professions.

Solution: Buy character slot, make Revenant, keep all classes because i’m not a one trick pony. No reason to quit one class just because there’s another, c’mon now…

Xytl.8659:

Solution: Buy character slot, make Revenant, keep all classes because i’m not a one trick pony. No reason to quit one class just because there’s another, c’mon now…

+1

Wooyadeen.6491:

Bryan.8527:

Speculation; Revenant is being hyped and marketed as an awesome heavy armor class in order to attract upcoming sales, while we warriors have been progressively nerfed over the past year.

For WvW will you switch to Revenant or continue as a Warrior?

Don’t believe the hype. Don’t believe them, remember hype about spvp and look where it is now. Remember what happened to warrior (high armor & high hp joke) and how they didnt have clue what to do with pvp and how to balance.

Rember SOTG events and all false promises from Jonathan Sharp and others.

Just look where we r now… We dont have fun in pvp (only 1 ultra boring game mode). We dont have endgame pve content (nothing to play for). There is no use for guilds…

GW2 did not fulfill a single promise, r we ready for new ones?

what was the hype behind SPvP? because I only really jumped into it this last few weeks of grinding it.

I’ve some friend in the italian comunity and they try the Beta Stresstest, with the revenant and the new www border.
They simply sayd that the revenant is Really OP. And that in the new border they will have a very good position and they will be so useful that everyone will have one.

It’s a normal thing because ANet can’t release a underpowered new class, no one will take it.
That’s why I’m shure that a revenant will be better than a warrior, in spvp and www. I don’t know about PvE.

But ANet have a new great surprise for our beloved warriors!
An the surprise is: we will no more be the best pve class!!!
That’s because in the beta there’s not been the condition stack limitation. They’ve see monsters with more than 30 stacks of bleed. We don’t know if the stack limitation will be removed or only increased, but if it will be removed (or increased to 75-100, for example) there wull be so much more condition damage builds in PvE (and in pvp if they make that change also in spvp and www) because if a condition damage class is able to deal its max damage they will be able to do 3-4k of damage x second of condi+direct damage, with the last king od equip (+condi-pow-prec) or wit precious equipment stats that grant them a mid-bunker build with very high damage.

Silv.9207:

I’ve some friend in the italian comunity and they try the Beta Stresstest, with the revenant and the new www border.

Vid please! As far i know it was pve zone olny.

Btw to your post above, revenant cant trigger all 3 blast finisher in his own field..

Silv.9207:

I’ve some friend in the italian comunity and they try the Beta Stresstest, with the revenant and the new www border.
They simply sayd that the revenant is Really OP. And that in the new border they will have a very good position and they will be so useful that everyone will have one.

The EU beta stress test took place on two small pve maps (after completing story after character creation), there was no new bl border map at all.