Elric.4713

> @"Lonami.2987" said:

> Going with Togo or any other generic GW1 characters would be the most disappointing thing ever. The Guild Wars lore is full of interesting people, and it's been 250 years since GW1, so there's dozens of new stories to be written, no need to rely so much on nostalgia.

Yeah, why should we get a well known and liked character when we can get someone unknown just so you can get some of your borderline fan-fiction specializations.

> I think guardian would be fine, we already saw monks and ritualists wearing heavy armor during Winds of Change: https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Zei_Ri

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> Even more, the Sea of Sorrow novels explains guardians came from mixing monk, ritualist, and paragon arts.

That was way before the Revenant was introduced into the game. And in-game lore > books.

That concept art of Echovald has me a little scared, I understand that the times has passes and it's suppose to be more "alive" than last we saw it, but I really wish it to still be a gloomy zone. It can have vegetation and be a dark forest at the same time, from those two pieces of art it just looks like part of Maguuma Jungle.

They're still there on a Human. What I'd like to know is when are we going to get the audio for Coalescence of Ruin back?

I feel like we're already a clown class when it comes to aesthetics. Revenant color scheme is: red, black, and misty white and yet each legend has it's own colour that is present in the energy bar, skill icons, unique animation behind skill bar and the hand glow. This is more than enough and if it were up to me only the energy bar would switch color to show what you're channeling and the rest would be in our color scheme.

Haunted Armor outfit also has a glow problem, tho it appears only to be visible in character menu.


It is as bad as we feared. My only concern going forward is, what does this low quality content mean for EOD?

Luckily Shadowlands is right around the corner.

> @"Loules.8601" said:

> > @"LucianTheAngelic.7054" said:

> > > @"Chaos.7614" said:

> > > > @"Fueki.4753" said:

> > > > If we were channel the Mists' memories of a ruling monarch, wouldn't make Sceptre more sense than Greatchunk?

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> > > > It's more in depth than most other Revenant Greatchunk threads (that I've read), but it still feels like nothing more than _a spec for the sake of the Greatchunk._

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> > > Maybe, but the idea of a scepter holding royal authority is too passive for a figure like Usoku. I'm also not the biggest fan of giving a class starved for skills a weapon that would only give 3 compared to 5. The only way I can see scepter working is if they introduce legend-specific effects on a scepter mainhand skills and retroactively apply that to offhands, since we only have 2 offhand weapons.

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> > Solution here is easy: give it scepter + focus. Spellbreaker already got mainhand and offhand dagger, which are technically different weapons, so it’s been done before

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> > > The way I see it, greatsword is really the most favorable weapon to add not only in terms of practicality but in terms of popularity. From what I've seen, everyone who wants scepter for our next spec also wants a Ritualist spec, which is already done with Kalla.

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> > There are other aspects to Ritualist than just spirits. If Rev gets a Rit themed spec with Scepter + Focus I would hope that they dive into the Channeling magic/weapon spell aspect of Rit.

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> > Also there are other Non-Ritualist Legends that could use Scepter Focus that would be way more interesting. **Vizier Khilbron** immediately comes to mind

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> We need greatsword more than anything - soldier class without one of the most loved weapon-types...

> I think the two-handed sword is the one the type of weapon the Revenant community has been looking forward to the most since the class was released. So any spec with Greatsword will be better than anything.

I'd say hammer is the weapon that defines soldiers. Greatsword on the other hand we see on two scholar professions and one adventurer, so if anyone it's either Thief or Engineer that should get it. And it's popular among all the professions that don't have it, should they just give it to everyone? I don't think so.

Everyone with half a brain knew it was Primordus.

So invasion events + some weapon skins are Living World episode in 2020. What a shitshow this saga turned out to be.

And ofc their "non-binary" dragon ends up good.

> @"Aeolus.3615" said:

> > @"AnodicShadow.3647" said:

> > > @"Elric.4713" said:

> > > Yes please force us back to swords again, we can't have any options.

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> > Renegade's shortbow's supposed to be a condi weapon to begin with. If anything power-wise, they should turn hammer into a viable PvP weapon.

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> I am wating for a GS rev to fix that issue, problem they m8 get us a heavy stealth mobity useless rev with focus, after that ur only choices are with 1h sword or mace :\

So the solution to our heavy melee playstyle is to push us into it even more? Makes sense.

Yes please force us back to swords again, we can't have any options.

If anyone at Arena Net reads this, now that we are heading for another continent please do not repeat the mistake as with POF and Icebrood Saga and make the maps disconnected.

Haven't had a GS thread for a while I guess.

> @"Kodama.6453" said:

> Ritualists are **not** using death magic.

> Death magic is basically a form of "flesh forging", it takes dead organic matter (muscles, bones, etc) and forms a minion out of it.

> Ritualist is using the mists, in which the souls of people land after dying, and control the spirits from there.

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> Revenants are also using **mist magic**, not death magic.

I find is funny how everyone bought into that one forum users fan fiction and are now using it as a fact to prove why Ritualist has no connection to Revenant.

> @"dodgerrule.8739" said:

> They confirmed in the live stream that the next episode is mid September.

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> Also 9 episodes would include the prologue: bound by blood

They only confirmed that a new fractal in coming on September 15th.

> @"Thornwolf.9721" said:

> gonna just go re-roll then, Honestly Id rather them remove the class than force it to have another renegade like spec. I will never understand when there is SO MUCH unique and rich lore and characters out there WHY people need to force this class to become the ritualist. Please shove it on something,, anything else and let us get a unique legend thats not just freak'n togo.

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> Whatever, give me my bunny thumper and Ill hop to ranger. Like for real~ Im over caring about the lore/theme of this class with how its players think.

People don't force anything, Rev is reimagined Rit thematically and it's quite obvious. Engineer got the gameplay and Rev the theme. You may not like it but that's how it is and you're welcome to swap professions as Rev is not a Twilight wielding brooding edgelord you want it to be. Renegade did get spirits, but if you bothered to read my first post you'd know that I'd like the next one (whether they call it Ritualist or not) to draw inspiration from Channeling magic and spice up our bruiser-ish gameplay.

> @"Kodama.6453" said:

> My personal favourite would be Master Togo.

> I really liked him as a character in GW1 and ritualist was my favourite class in the first game, so I would like to see it referenced in the revenant class.

This. It's going full circle for Revenant. But if they decide to not go for the Ritualist name, we at least have to learn from them.

Such a unique and beloved zone must be there at launch!

Cautiously optimistic, I don't preorder games.

> @"Randulf.7614" said:

> Kuunavang looks good indeed

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> FYI, a sticky has the vid in already

Didn't see it.

Mods feel free to delete this thread.

It's happening boys.

> @"Kodama.6453" said:

> Want to point out: Cantha actually has the unique ability to even tie in the revenant class into their lore!

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> Ritualists in Cantha were powerful mages which were communing with the mists long before the revenants actively travelled the mists. This class has been an inspiration for the revenant class in the first place, up to the point that they even made revenants blindfold themselves in the game, just like ritualists already did traditionally, since they thought that blindfolding will help them look into the mists instead of their own reality.

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> So it could very well be that our revenant friends are going to Cantha and learn some new tricks from the ancient traditions of the ritualists there, making ritualist their new elite spec.

> Cantha also provides some legendary ritualists for revenants to summon.

This. Ritualist for Revenant (or at least heavily Rit inspired) specialization that focuses on Channeling Magic. It's just a perfect fit with Revenant being thematically heavily inspired by the Ritualist in the first place.

How many fiery weapons can one game have? Apparently not enough.

Revenant doesn't have pets but we do have spirits with the Renegade specialization.

> @"Hitomi Shadowleaf.5629" said:

> It just seems like you NEED for it be not greatsword for whatever strange eccentric reason. 62% of the community wants it so it should be that weapon its really that simple. and this guy's concept is awesome.

It's not 62% of the community, just forum users. And we don't know if they even play Revenant.