Slow (condition) – Skills and actions are slower: aka the animations for performing skills or attacks are slower (opposite of quickness). Resistance (boon) – conditions on you have no effect, stacks with duration: that is just simply amazing. Do note that these are for the Revenant as well as other professions via Specializations: So we only know of 3 of them so far (and there might only be 3, you never know) but here’s the one’s listed. New Boons, and Conditions, and Status Effects Oh My! This reminds me of my Dervish in GW1 for some reason and I’ll probably be running Jalis stance quite a bit on release. A Jalis upkeep skill is Vengeful Hammers which makes hammers fly around you and damages enemies in the process. For Jalis it would be tanking and brawling. There’s a Mallyx upkeep skill called Embrace the Darkness that makes you more powerful with the conditions applied to you (I assume the Charr in the pic above is using it). Well you’re correct! Each Legend stance has a distinct look and color scheme to tell the difference and each legend has a special “trait”. Look at that image! Just look at that! Is that not awesome?! For those of you that have played GW1 Nightfall, you know that’s a Mallyx the Unyielding effect of some kind. There are probably quite a bit of cool Revenant combos you can pull off. A skill on the Axe called Temporal Rift creates a rift and pulls enemies to it after a short time which could be combined with the 3rd mace auto attack Manifest Toxin which sends toxic energy to enemies behind each target. Maces and Axes seem to be designed to be used in a positional strategic manner. I’m actually quite relieved that Hammer is confirmed as a range weapon because most PvE boss fighting requires range and the Hammer seems like it will be a decent range weapon with some close range bonus Guardians have like Field of the Mists which makes a field that blocks incoming projectiles. Revenants will be able to use Hammers as a ranged weapon, Maces and Axes as melee weapons. So don’t worry, you’ll always have those weapon skills when swapping legends. Also, weapons are not tied to legends but to the Mists instead. The addition of a heavy class with the specialized function skill described above that can’t weapon swap seems reasonable. 
Engineer (medium armor) and Elementalist (light armor) can’t weapon swap but have swappable skills in some form. Revenants do not have a weapon swap ability, which makes sense when you think about it.
To be honest, I’m really excited for using upkeep skills because I used this mechanic a lot on my Monk in GW1. Also, having upkeep skills will definitely require some player skill to maintain their resource bar. I have heard there may be a change to how skills are obtained so we’ll wait on that. I also wonder if buying legend skills will cost more skill points than the average utility skill or elite to balance things out. I imagine it may be even easier to make builds depending on what you want to do and you equip the according legends best suited. I’m not sure how much this will affect sPvP players since we don’t know all the legends just yet. Since players won’t be in control of choosing that right set of utility, heal and elite for their builds, I assume there will be a decent variety of legends to choose from, my guess would be around 75% of the average number of utility skills per profession. The choice in making the skill bar this way is interesting for a variety of reasons. If you’ve played GW1, you probably understand this. Upkeep skills are skills that consumes a bit of your resource bar over time as long as you keep the skill active. What’s interesting is the addition of upkeep skills. When you switch to a legend, you get 50% of your bar filled and more so over time. The Revenant also has a resource bar in order to use skills. That’s right, your heal, utilities AND elite skill. The legend you choose determines the entire right side of your skill bar. You can toggle between the 2 slotted legends by pressing F1. You know the special Function skills each profession has (F1-F4)? Well the Revenant’s profession slots in 2 legends of your choosing into your Function skill. That question has been answered and so much more! The Skill Bar I’ve personally had questions on how the legends would work. Finally! Some news on the Revenant! Game Designer Roy Cronacher wrote up a post on the Guild Wars 2 site to tell us a bit about how the Revenant works.
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