Guild Wars Reporter

Guild Wars Reporter


Guild Wars Reporter Episode 152 – Bo Staves Fo Evah

June 06, 2015

Celeste continues on with Ultra to discuss Legendary Centaur Stance and a whole of combat strategies.
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What We Did This Week

 

Ultra

Roamed in wvw way too much. But made some montages

1st montage
2nd montage
3rd montage

some mapping and pve for the first time in… a month ish.
experimented with some alts: ranger, ele, warrior
a little stronghold

 

Celeste

finished mawdrey
stronghold beta
random zone completions and such

Went through Kessex with my son

 

Report from Lion’s Arch

 

Ventari Legend for Revenant & Melee Staff Reveal (Roy Cronacher)

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/revenant-compassion-as-a-way-of-life/

“The new legend will offer a supportive playstyle and push the boundaries of healing through skillful play. Today I’m happy to introduce the staff and the Ventari legend.”

Melee Staff

“This weapon imbues your attacks with the power of the Mists, using a mix of martial and magical styles to support your allies. It’s very much about damage prevention rather than directly offensive attacks, to fit the legend’s theme.” It acts more like a bo staff than a magical artifact
Skills:

Rejuvenating Assault - “Cleave foes around you with your staff, creating healing orbs for you and your allies.”

Little healing balls pop out when you cleave on this 3rd part of the auto attack. “We wanted to promote healing through offense rather than as a passive effect.”

Surge of the Mists - “Charge forward, knocking back enemies that cross your path”

“This control skill is a Ventari-approved way to separate enemies from your injured allies.” For those not in the know Ventari never encouraged violence but, like martial arts teachings, enables you to protect for those who may be on the receiving end of a fight

Ventari Legend

“Ventari’s Tablet is at the core of every skill for the Ventari legend. All of the skills either do something around the tablet or modify it, so positioning of the tablet is the key to being effective. This requires the revenant to command the tablet, and to communicate and interact with allies so that they can receive the tablet’s benefits.”

C: Again, with the revenant, Heart of Thorns brings in the environmental awareness in a big way
You pop into Legendary Centaur Stance and you’ll need to pull out the tablet before you can do anything else. “After you bring the tablet into the world, your skill bar will fill with the five legend-based skills, all of which manipulate the tablet.”
“There are two ways to dismiss the tablet when moving around between fights. Using your elite skill, Energy Expulsion, will overload the tablet with energy and cause it to disappear. The tablet will also automatically be dismissed if you move a certain distance from it. In both cases, your skill bar will flip back over to the previous state, and you’ll need to summon the tablet again to use the other skills.”

Skills:

Ventari’s Will - “Will the tablet toward the target location. As the tablet moves, it will heal allies it passes through.”

U: Seems like it’d be nice in world boss fights and maybe wvw

Protective Solace - “Summon a protective barrier around the tablet that destroys enemy projectiles.”

A toggle skill that rapidly depletes your energy bar and resembles the Shield of Absorption for Guardian. You can use Ventari’s Will to move the tablet while Solace is active to both heal, reflect, and advance the line simultaneously.
U: Use to defend casters against wall defenders?

Energy Expulsion - “Force energy to erupt from the tablet, knocking back foes and leaving behind energy fragments that heal allies.”

Dismisses the tablet, acts more like Shield of Absorption for Guardian (with the pushback), and sends out more healing thingies to the ground.
C: The shards offering healing and such kind of reminds me of Supply Drop from an Engineer