Guild Wars 2

ttyl.6021:

Can Shortbow skills cost no energy?

F3 and elite are strong and fun, but they greatly overshadow other energy-spending “options”…

Energy cost on weapons should be gone, period!

Even if this was a “pve” spec, all of the current meta pve builds have horrible energy management to make any of the utility skills actually responsive to battle, and the Renegade skills are the worst offenders for bad energy management. They are too energy hungry to make any of them available when you need them while actually continuing any sort of dps rotation, either with shortbow or mace/axe.

Overall, when battling Guild Lord and other pve mobs in WvW, it just seems that over half of my Renegade utility skills are just unavailable if I am to keep up condi dps, regardless of shortbow or mace/axe.

I’m not going to even start about underwater combat since revenants just get screwed in general.

With only a month until release, I highly suggest looking back at the “flow” of renegade playstyle… mainly in energy management to be able to maintain a dps rotation in pve, while still having energy to actually use our utility/class skills. For pvp, I think some of the cast times need to be reevaluated.

With another year for the next expac, I highly suggest you just redesign the core philosophy of Revenant. As a Ritualist main from GW1, I’m trying hard to really like this class since Engineer didn’t satisfy the hole in my soul.

Please, Robert and Irenio, please!!!

I honestly only tried Deadeye and Renegade in spvp, wvw, and killing centaurs in Alpine.

Deadeye was nice… I think having a different color/image shade for when you are kneeling/unkneeling would be beneficial. In the heat of battle, I couldn’t tell which stance I was in.

Renegade… sigh Revenants are a mess in core, let alone this energy hog and lackluster dps/support. I sat most of the time autoattacking and using maybe 2 skills and then autoattacking. Damage was low, no condi cleanse, stunbreak only on heal without the legend trait, and the heal didn’t do much at all. And underwater combat is locked again!!! You give “Champion Ritualist” title to revenants, but I feel this is a disgrace to GW1 Ritualist mains. (I want my ashes, weapon spells, and spirits!)

Honestly, at this point, any acknowledgement on the Revenant forums to know you HEAR our concerns would be better than being silent. You don’t even have to tell us your plan, just the fact you hear us in the Revenant community would mean a lot at this point… cuz it seems like you honestly dont care… like it was a HoT Design Team mess of a class that you don’t want to clean up.

We have a <50 player guild. We are healthily at 30-40 accounts, and about 20 people on throughout a day for influence call, but only maybe 8 people online at a time on average.

We even have a small group of allies that we call on to help with the guild bounty.

We don’t even consider trying to do a Bounty without 10 people on, and even then, not all people are 80 nor have all the waypoints.

Even with 3 groups, we barely have enough strength to find the first bounty, let alone the second, and if we find them, kill them fast enough for people to run to the other zone and find them again. Different people have different computers, so they can just waypoint and waypoint without long loading screens.

Luckily, our guild is tight enough to not care that we fail, but it doesn’t help the guild feel like we will ever progress to unlock all missions. And to say “you dont need number, you need communication” is kind of offensive. So… we aren’t good enough… thanks!

And to give Guild Bounty Training for influence but no rewards… that doesn’t make us any better at the 2 targets in 15 minutes. Even if we find the bounties, we have to make sure everybody is there to help out and get credit.

We don’t need the devs to get defensive about their design… we are asking for help from a smaller guild sake. Otherwise, without 100+ people on the roster, we just have to accept our defeat and not care about guild missions at all.