I’m a WvW player, I will “analyze” according to this fact.
The Revenant
The stability is not too much, in my opinion. Sense it changed from duration to stacking, it is very easy to counter even though, if no one stuns you, it might seem permanent. It is also on a preset path, which in many cases will be hard to walk on. When other players see this path of Revenant stability, all the Lines of warding and Static fields will be placed on it. You must keep on the path to keep the stability up, but not only will it be hard to always predict where to place this path, it will most of the times be covered with CC (in WvW).
The hammer is great. The only thing I’d like as a change is the same as you did with warrior a while back. Skill 4 on hammer, warrior, was in the beginning a skill where the player was stuck in position while casting it. This was correctly removed. Seeing since the Revenant doesn’t have the mobility of a warrior, the skill 3, on Revenant should be changed so that you are not stuck in position while it’s casting. It gives very terrible mobility and it will make WvW players not use the skill at all.
The utility skills are too limited. Seeing since they only change depending on your legendary, it really limits the kind of build that you can use.
The healing skills are both good in their own way. You can heal in Demon legendary to use the condition that is applied to you, to your advantage. Then simply swap legendary to remove three of the conditions. Hard to say how this will be used. I believe it would be better if the healing skill stayed the same on both legendaries and increase the heal a bit and maybe heal per condition as well as taking three conditions away. Otherwise it could be a bit overpowered, being able to heal 4k plus heal per condition, then swap and heal 5k plus removing three conditions. It’s hard to say, Revenant doesn’t appear to have the regeneration as the warrior or even guardian. Guardian that also have a lot of healing on Orb of light, Empower, etc. The healing on Revenant might be good as it is, yet again, hard to say.
Hammer will be the weapon of choise for many WvW players. I would have loved to see a weapon swap sigil in this beta, like energy. Would this sigil trigger when swapping legendaries? If so, giving us a bit more room to work with the utility skills would be great.
Elite skill duration is a bit low. It is similar to Renewed focus, but since it does not make you invulnerable nor immune to CC, the duration could be a bit longer.
Ability to remove conditions. Revenant has a lot of self inflicting conditions, even with that it has only, as far as I could see, the one healing skill to remove three of them. Additional condition removing is needed.
All in all, I enjoyed playing the Revenant. It’s an exciting new profession with a lot of potential and I believe that we will see a lot of them in WvW when HoT is out.
Thanks ArenaNet for letting me take part in this stress test!