Guild Wars 2

Kidel.2057:

Is this food enough? I don’t want to spend too much since we are getting 100 more levels on cook

Not enough!

The only food buffs that should be removed are the +/- condi duration buffs.

meltdown.5870:

at the moment downed is bs….cause you cant use it at all against mesmers thieves …so Why have the downed skills at all…they can just finish you in stealth ..its LAME

Or the interrupts get countered by blind, block, stability, or invuln.

It all depends on how the meta shakes out. The elite specs themselves aren’t intended to be inherently better than the base profession, just giving an alternative way to play the profession.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/specializations-part-two-reward-tracks-and-elite-specializations/

Finally, these reward tracks unlock everything for an elite specialization: weapon, unique mechanics, skills, and traits. They’ll also reward items, including new runes and sigils, a fancy weapon skin for your new weapon type, and an armor skin for a single matching piece of armor (usually headgear or shoulders)

Dewzie.7015:

Mending Oasis – Summon an oasis around Ventari’s tablet that applies regeneration and vigor to allies. Foes cannot enter the area. (Duration 5 seconds)

This would be a great fourth utility skill if every legend was given an extra utility for some customization.

I never really used the projectile block on Ventari and would love to have a water field skill I could use in place of projectile defense.

I just want one extra utility per legend. Just like how each utility category on other professions has 4 skills each.

abc.5790:

Anet loves:
-eles
-guards
-mesmers

Anet is neutral towards:
-thieves
-warriors

Anet hates:
-necros
-engies
-rangers

Anet must love rangers because they took a balanced weapon, Longbow, and buffed it a ton for no reason at all.

KinkyPotato.4219:

Definitely love the changes…support revenant is looking a lot nicer with the Ventari and Glint/Shield changes. One thing however:

Roy Cronacher.1576:

• Purifying Essence: This skill is now instant cast. Decreased the energy cost from 35 to 30 and added a 5 second recharge.

Was the 5 second recharge needed on this skill? We’re already prohibited by a fairly hefty energy cost of 30 which assuming we don’t have any upkeep, needs 6 seconds with 5 pips of energy regen to breakeven. Also, in a game that favours movement in combat, you’ll need at least 40 energy (10 for moving the tablet, 30 for casting this) in most cases to cleanse 3 conditions.

Nope don’t think it needed the CD either. Especially given how easily conditions are spread in this game and the energy cost.

How about giving a key in every Black Lion Goods daily log in reward? Because anything other than a key feels like a complete waste of a log in reward.

If anything, something should be added to Crystal Hibernation with the GM trait. Keep the boon extention on Shield 4 and add something else on Shield 5.

There is already a lot of boon removal in the game, so if it got changed to just spread might, it would be incredibly boring and underpowered.

I hope that if they’re keeping the change about removing displacement, that they go ahead and remove taunt as well.

Roy Cronacher.1576:

Staff

• Renewing Wave: Changed the animation on this skill so it can be used while moving. It retained the same 1 second cast time.

Shield

• Envoy of Exuberance: Decreased the energy cost from 15 to 10. Fixed a bug so that this skill will properly heal at the target location instead of around you.
• Crystal Hibernation: Removed the defiance bar. This skill will now block attacks for the duration while regenerating health. Lowered recharge from 30 seconds to 20 seconds.

Legendary Centaur Stance
Here I made some changes to the cast time. Now all utility skills are instant, only the heal and the elite have a cast time. The elite has also been lowered in cast time as well as decreased energy cost.

• Naturalistic Harmony. Decreased the energy cost from 25 to 20.
• Purifying Essence: This skill is now instant cast. Decreased the energy cost from 35 to 30 and added a 5 second recharge.
• Energy Expulsion: This skill is now a blast finisher and reduced the cast time from 2 seconds to 1 second. Decreased the energy cost from 50 to 35.

So much hype right now due to these changes. Bring on BWE3.

Legendary Mistfire Wolf Stance, please!

I’m sure the hammer will be fun to play, I just hope the traits are good enough so that I can use a build without the new utilities.

All depends on how much it costs. I hope it’s cheap enough that I can have Ventari plus Herald and Salvation/Invocation traits.

I have my tomes and scrolls ready for instant 80 Revenant. I also have full set of Ascended Cleric’s armor and accessories, plus Ascended mace, staff, sword, and legendary shield.

Can’t forget the 18 stacks of Delicious Rice Balls!

Kain Francois.4328:

Champion Anything-But-Ritualist.

I want Ritualist to be a future specialization.

As long as the future Ritualist has Spirit Rift!

Orpheal.8263:

Next to the Elite Skills

4) (New) Signet of Toxic Shock
Signet. Passive Effect: Gain periodically a random Venom, except for the Healing Venoms. Increases the Charges of Venoms
Active Effect: Deal a Shadow Step Attack with AoE Torment/Blind as Effect, that causes also the enemy to see Hallucinations for a while, making their screen all blurry. While suffering under Hallucinations is the Friendly Fire for hit Enemies deactivated, so that they will deal also damage to their allies with AoEs.

Turn off post-processing and no blurry screen effect!

Shield 4 does need an increase in the protection duration.

But what about a Revenant Rytlock plushie?

Definitely worth using. The healing is really strong when paired with all of the outgoing healing traits, runes, and food. For example, with all the traits, runes, food, and max healing power, you can heal allies for over 6k with Natural Harmony.

The energy costs of Natural Harmony and Purifying Essence could be lowered by a bit, but overall the legend is very much worth using if you’re going for a support role.

Taunt should just be removed from the game. We didn’t need taunt in the game. Fear is bad enough in terms of the game taking control of your character away and forcing it to do something.

Lonewolf Kai.3682:

Xaylin.1860:

I’d guess that the 4th bonus will be on Heal and the 6th bonus on Legend swap.

Boring but versatile regardless of which Legend you’re using.

The # 4 is a good suggestion. #6 is too specific to the Revenant. My guess is it’ll be an elite skill use effect since we have two of them. Maybe Fury upon use of an elite skill; +5% damage when under the effect of Fury.

They could make it “on legend/weapon swap”. That way it would still be useful for other professions and attunement/kit swapping functions like weapon swapping, so it would work for Eles and Engis too.

Well it wouldn’t tie directly to the legend mechanics and skills, just the style of the legend. Ventari and the Salvation line are based around healing power and outgoing healing, so it would be a set based on those stats. I doubt they would have unique bonuses specific with the legend skills, though. Just something unique enough that plays along with the legend playstyle while still being usuable by the other professions and still being balanced with the other rune sets.

I want a weapon that has Spirit Rift from GW1. That is all.

Superior Rune of the Revenant was datamined a while back.
1: +8 to all stats
2: +10 to all stats
3: +12 to all stats
4: ?
5: +16 to all stats
6: ?

Item code = [&AgH6DgEAAA==]
Now I’m curious as to what the 4th and 6th bonuses are.. Though it could very well have been changed to something different than + all stats.

I’d like to see runes based around each legend too. For example, a Rune of Ventari that has healing power and outgoing healing, with the outgoing healing replacing the boon duration that most healing power runes have.

Champion Ritualist

Not a bad idea but would probably be OP. I think it would have to be something more support based.

I like the boon increase on shield skills, but perhaps it could increase boons on shield 4 and shield 5 could have a different effect.

Misguided.5139:

warherox.7943:

I think it should just make Crystal Hibernation apply an AoE heal to allies when it finishes channeling.

Here’s a crazy idea, but what about some sort of powerful effect if the break bar gets depleted? Like casting One with Nature?

Perhaps if it only affected allies and not the player. Otherwise it would limit the downside to having the breakbar depleted, mainly because of the protection.

Because I stream sniped Jessica during Ready Up Episode 6

I think it should just make Crystal Hibernation apply an AoE heal to allies when it finishes channeling.

Could always go Valkyrie with Roiling Mists trait for extra crit chance on fury. A lot more health while still maintaining a decent crit chance.

Don’t forget one of the most important ones!

• Elite Specializations must be balanced with the base professions and not feel like an upgrade.

Roy Cronacher.1576:

There will be some ventari changes.

Ventari changes! #HYPE

Michelangelo.1742:

It’s called an Elite Specialization for a reason, I agree with ArenaNet’s current design. They would have to change the name of it if they were going to do what you said, meaning it is highly likely it won’t happen, because the point of an Elite Specialization is to progress your current self into an elite form. That only makes sense on a level 80 character who has the knowledge of the profession and is therefore worthy of using it. Doing it at level 60 or any level before 80 would be a bad idea, because you only have an idea of the profession. It’s not until 80 that you really flesh it out with solid builds. People below 80 don’t have the armour/weapon/trinket stats, foods, oils, skill rotations and trait setups thought out enough to be considered “elite”.

It’s only “Elite” in the name and the fact that you can only have one elite spec slotted (when more are available). Elite specs are supposed to be balanced with the base profession and not be a straight up upgrade to the base profession.

scerevisiae.1972:

Sounds good to me, the pve in this game is way too easy. I think it’s mainly a problem of crappy AI, not damage per se.

One shot hits from mobs doesn’t equate to challenging or harder content.

SoulstitchMMO.1396:

I agree with tablet spawn on legend swap, but I am still not sure about how Ventari fits in naturally or is powerful enough to be used any situation but pve reliably. What really does ventari do that herald doesn’t do better ?

Ventari is more supportive through healing and condition removal, while Glint is more boon support.

The only issue I see between Ventari and Glint is when it comes to some of the traits. Regen on tablet or regen on orbs sounds nice, but Glint stacks regen so much easier than Ventari. Plus taking those traits reduces the overall healing support because you lose out on two outgoing healing traits.

Especially considering each type of utlity skill has 4 skills each.

I like the idea of Elluding Nullification casting Purifying Essence on dodge. Removing one condition is really weak and having it cast Purifying Essence would further add to the supportive nature of the trait line.

I agree with tablet spawning on legend swap. I also think Natural Harmony and Purifying Essence could use -5 to their enegy costs.

My Charr Revenant

It would be nice to have an extra utility per legend, but it’s most likely too late for that. I’d certainly like to swap out Protective Solace on Ventari for something different.

I know from experience that high toughness doesn’t do much of anything in the new map. You can still get one shot with 3300 armor.

Yup Ventari is pretty awesome. Really nice to have healing support that’s impactful, especially in PvP.

Some of the scaling could use a buff, like the passive on Ventari’s heal, but overall it’s a really well made and balanced spec.

Jekkt.6045:

it should not be affected by soft cc in the first place. even stability is better than this.

Yeah soft CC makes it so easy to counter. Should only be affected by actual hard CC skills.

Envoy of Exuberance has the wrong healing numbers. Says 2628 in PvP with 1375 HP, but actually heals for 2308.

I noticed one CC breaks shield 5’s break bar :\

Ayrilana.1396:

They give you free armor/weapons/etc to test the classes. I don’t see what the issue is.

Yeah but not all the stat combos and lots of runes/sigils missing.