Guild Wars 2

I have to say no only because Ventari’s entire stance revolves around the tablet. Your suggestion means revenants can’t utilize Ventari at all until at least level 31. One fourth of the class just can’t be used until you’re more than a fourth of the way through leveling, period.

“But it’s a healing spec,” you say. “No one needs that at low levels.”

No other class in any other context is locked out of such a significant part of its core mechanic for so long. It’s not about being usable, it’s about keeping this spec in line with the precedent set forward by all other specs and mechanics on all other classes. No legend revolves around the use of its elite skill, nor should it.

EDIT: I agree with the changes to the skills themselves. I do not agree with shifting Ventari’s Will to the elite slot. The training wheel always unlocks the healing skill first. If a skillset revolves around a particular mechanic, that mechanic should unlock first, not last.

EDIT 2: Grammar revisions for clarity of meaning.

Hawk.2875:

I think so! I could make a video of you’d like, although currently I am at work!

While I myself am planning a charr revenant (thank you for the animations, I’m very pleased), it’d be interesting to see the asura animations, yes. Will watch this thread with great anticipation.

Hope your work day goes well.

Silverkey.2078:

I thought one could only make a human currently? How do we make a charr (or anything else)?

From the looks of things, this was captured in the Ascalon fractal, where you’re forced into charr form whether you’re a charr or not.

Interestingly, it’s considered a transform, and other transform effects (like, say, necro Death Shroud) usually revert you temporarily to your normal form. Embrace the Darkness is apparently a buff with a fancy particle effect, rather than a transform. I like it.

EDIT: incidentally, if one takes a revenant to the Thaumanova fractal, one could also see the asura revenant animations, yes? Worth investigating…

In starter zones, when your HP reaches a certain percentage, this arrow drops down as a hint to new players that they have a heal skill and should use it. This is especially pertinent because new characters no longer start with down state—run out of HP at an early enough level, and you immediately die.

Needless to say, it’s not working as intended. It shouldn’t show up for high level characters at all. If you end combat without using that heal skill, either by running away or by killing the mobs attacking you, the arrow persists and won’t go away until you view a loading screen. It also prevents ESC from opening the game menu, though you can still do so by clicking on the gear in the upper corner.

TL;DR it’s a “feature” of the NPE that isn’t working quite right.

In starter zones, when your HP reaches a certain percentage, this arrow drops down as a hint to new players that they have a heal skill and should use it. This is especially pertinent because new characters no longer start with down state—run out of HP at an early enough level, and you immediately die.

Needless to say, it’s not working as intended. It shouldn’t show up for high level characters at all. If you end combat without using that heal skill, either by running away or by killing the mobs attacking you, the arrow persists and won’t go away until you zone. It also prevents ESC from opening the game menu, though you can still do so by clicking on the gear in the upper corner.

TL;DR it’s a “feature” of the NPE that isn’t working quite right.

EDIT: fixed ambiguous phrasing.

Thank you very much for your help, Aidyn! I felt like I might be looking in the wrong place.

This is quite possibly liable to get me shot, I suppose, but having been away from the game for a while and finally coming back only to find that the rest of my guild has fallen away, I want to branch out and try something different, and by different I mean a roleplaying guild. I’ve given thought to my characters before, and there were some members of the old guild who weren’t averse to playing in-character from time to time, but I’d like to go for the whole shebang if I can.

I’ve got five characters, but probably only two would enter the guild at first.

I’ve seen such guilds about in-game but have never had the courage to speak to any of them. More’s the pity, I suppose.

I’m centered on Henge of Denravi, but my understanding is that the megaserver will more or less take care of that if the guild is centered on another US server.