Hey, so I’ve tested the Renegade, yes, Revenant is my main and it’s my darling, but nonetheless, I feel like it’s getting neglected, not by me though! Kalla? Okay, sure, why not? I mean, cool a charr, I could… think of another charr RENEGADE, who started it all and the charrs… own everything they are today to him, that’s literally what his statue says, but nope… we get Scorchrazor. Anyway! Less about the lore, more about the skills.
I literally have nothing against the shortbow, maybe except for energy consumption, but otherwise, the condi damage, which I am focusing on is pleasant, I enjoyed the shortbow, the shortbow seems like a nice additon and after a short ‘’Ugh… shortbow’’ I actually convinced myself to it! So yes, I like the shortbow.
Utility Skills… and heal and elite, I am no PvP player, but I tried to use the heal skill, which I felt like didn’t heal me at all, I just have been killed despite the skill being active, again, might be my lack of skill, but… really it should let me live at least these 10 seconds longer, right? It didn’t.
Now… let’s go a lot of years back, remember that one class that wore a blindfold? Yeah, me too. That’s what todays Rev is based on (The ritualist, just in case!) and I feel like the Renegade perfectly represents that, the spirits of long gone heroes fighting at your side, protecting you and then disappearing into the mists… there’s just one tiny little problem, they don’t exactly fight at your side, nor do they protect you, in fact, you have to protect them, or they’re going to die and be useless, doesn’t really sound all that good, right? I feel like they should… be able to follow you, be an actual warband (even though my Rev is a human) that fights at your side. I am going to mention a lot of ideas that have been probably mentioned… but maybe one more post will and then another will make this happen. Keep the charrs, keep their fighting animation, but let them follow you, like the minions follow the necromancer! Or, please, give the revenant another FX skill that will let us move them to our location, imagine and that’s the example I gave to someone, if you are downed, I am currently running Kalla, I need to help you, but I myself am at low health and my other Legend heal is recharging, now I need to get you up, I just put up the ’’totem’’ charr in one place, I move to you, I die, because I can’t get my health up and that’s how you trigger a whole raid party. Okay, maybe not, but you know, it’s just an example. Or another one! A dungeon, we won’t get anymore, but they’re still in the game, we get through a bunch of enemies, I just put up all of the immovable charrs, somewhere else, and they still have a lot of time to stay up! Do I just waste them? Basically what I am saying is, can you give us a way to let the warband members move around with us, just like https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Summon_Spirits ? It would be great, you wouldn’t have to rework the animations… too much and we would get more fun out of them and let’s be honest, that’s what Renegade is all about… a half ripped off ritualist and suddenly they have alacrity too! Because chronomancer can’t stay unique with their fancy speed up, right? Noo! So why not give us something of our own? Like for example that summon skills I’ve linked. I don’t want to go too far with my fantasy here, but just this little thing, to make the Renegade feel less boring! To make us feel like we are actually fighting amongst the warband members, not a bunch of pawns standing there and dancing around or give us a few utility skills that don’t belong to any of the legends that we can use with any of them, obviously with energy use, which I do personally enjoy, unless it drains me on start, which I try to avoid, but you know how it is at times. Just… please don’t make the Rev a cheap rip off of a class it could actually become in the future, please Anet! I think the Ritualist worked great with their spirits and since the Revenant resembles it so much, why not using something that you’ve successfully done once and can do it again?
Anyway, it would be great to see it, dreaming about it will have to be enough I guess.
Renegade has proven to be… not as interesting, but I hope it can be fixed, for the sake of my favourite class in Guild Wars 2!