In the fantasy MMORPG Guild Wars 2 , the new class Revenant takes on ever new roles. Thanks to the third legend, the centaur Ventari, and the staff, it will also be able to heal.
With Heart of Thorns, Guild Wars 2 will receive a new class. It gradually reveals itself to be a jack of all trades, into which many design ideas seem to have flowed. The Revenant, for example, uses a hammer not as a melee weapon, but as a ranged tool, and it can channel “legends.” These are currently characters from the first Guild Wars. Thus, it can “transform” into the demon Mallyx as well as the dwarven king Jalis Ironhammer, acquiring new abilities and different playstyles that correspond to specific weapons that it also interprets in its own unique way.
With the staff, the Revenant becomes a kind of Mistweaver Monk like in WoW
The third legend introduced is the peaceful centaur Ventari, and the weapon is the “staff.” When the Revenant takes up the staff, it becomes a kind of “battle healer,” like the Mistweaver Monk in World of Warcraft. While it is primarily a melee fighter, its attacks also produce supportive effects.
When the Revenant shifts into centaur form, a tablet becomes the “focus” of its abilities. Through it, the Revenant can evoke supportive and healing effects for its allies within a certain radius, push back enemies, and create a barrier.
It seems that Guild Wars 2 is coming up with quite a bit for the Revenant. One can be curious to see how the class ultimately plays in Heart of Thorns and whether it will have to pay a so-called “hybrid tax” for all these abilities. This is what MMORPG jargon calls it when classes must pay with a few percentage points of reduced effectiveness in each area for their versatility, so that classes that can only do one thing also have a justification.
