Guild Wars 2

“It’s true. The class feels very incomplete. Very limited selection of weapons. No choice on abilities, and the legends are extremely limited as well in usefulness, which is why you see 99% of Revenant’s using the exact same set up.” QUOTE

I disagree. Initially, while leveling and getting use to the class, people stuck with the easiest combo. Now that I have everything unlocked, I am experimenting more. The staff is a marvelous weapon when worked with Assassin and Demon stance and properly traited. Mace is a good alternate when you have a need for condi; sword if you need more power and less survivability.

The class is hard to get high crit or condi through gear alone, so traiting and utilities are mandatory for maximum effect.

To train, my first advice is to throw away your hammer and do not use Herald as Herald is a pretty lazy trait line. Once proficient, (nice way of saying, I get it now), you can pick up your hammer again and even dabble with Herald.

Have fun.

My ranger play is primarily variants of beast master. I run beast mastery and then either power line for longbow or critical strikes for short bow; power build or condition build respectively. I then use a heal or support line according to what I am doing for my third. With the druid, I see the this line as a potential support line to my original kill lines, but frankly, I will have to actually work with it to see if it is better. What the druid line does not have is a lot of pet support. It does address condition management and it is possible the avatar will work as a last ditch heal option like the necromancer’s F1 skill.

As to running full druid with staff, IT IS a full healer class. Run with the ranger’s nature and wilderness lines, it is in fact quite a powerful healer and support class. Now I know this is not what everyone wanted, but give the developers some credit. It is indeed a formidable healer beyond anything seen in game yet.

Personally, I am hoping the line does make for a viable alternative to the standard ‘ranging’ builds making them a little more friendly.

If a developer does happen to read this, the only change I would make to please players like me is to modify one of the minors to favour pet play.