Guild Wars 2

@ronpierce, gotcha.

However, the profession isn’t finished so it may not be as restrictive as it looks. Also, the current idea really puts pressure on the developers to ensure that locked-in skills are not worthless.

The other thing about the Revenant will be how the energy resource works with the utilities. That may make the profession relatively powerful for what it gets. It could also fall completely on its face.

It is still too early to write off though.

I’m not sure I follow the logic from the first paragraph, so please forgive me.

From what we know so far, no, the Revenant may not be as flexible as an Engineer or Elementalist.

However, the Revenant looks to have the same amount of skills as all the other professions in actual game play. Each Legend may not have 25+ skills to select from, but are you really using all of those abilities on whatever your current profession is anyway?

In the case of the Revenant you make use of Utility skill swap instead of weapon swap. You still have access to 15 abilities just like everyone else. How is that less customization? How is this profession any worse, given current context, than any other profession with cookie cutter builds (since all professions have them)? We still don’t know how the Revenant will unlock the skills per Legend either. Maybe you unlock Mallyx with a smaller number of options for heals, then 7-9 skills, and maybe a couple of utilities. Maybe you unlock only 5 skills for your bar. We don’t know.

TL;DR: Too little information so far to completely write off this profession.