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Dame Laureline · Jul 20, 2010, 08:00 AM // 08:00

Well, why classes in fact ?

Juste let people have a bunch of points and desing how they want to have energy, e-regen, armor, spell abilities and so on.

isoul · Jul 20, 2010, 10:05 AM // 10:05

Its understandable that dual prof system can't help the game becoming imbalanced but...

In many cases the dual profession system, which used to be essential, isn't needed anymore. In some cases the dual prof system is causing problems. So, now we have hundreds of skills to choose from but this doesn't help us. In the case of a warrior, for example, there are many skills that aren't useful anymore. Most Warrior builds for PvE use no secondary prof. Most builds tend to revolve around the same skills.

The diversity of builds is less now and some skills and the dual prof system has fallen into disuse.

In general I believe that the absence of dual prof and the fewer skills in GW2 is a positive thing since these features ended to acte more as a "burden" rather than a feature in the original GW.

Mintha Syl · Jul 20, 2010, 10:29 AM // 10:29

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Originally Posted by Dame Laureline

Well, why classes in fact ?

Juste let people have a bunch of points and desing how they want to have energy, e-regen, armor, spell abilities and so on.

Because without classes it would be a totally different game maybe?

Morphy · Jul 20, 2010, 01:26 PM // 13:26

It's really fluff only, if it doesn't add anything to the game, why allow characters to use multiple weapons?

reaper with no name · Jul 21, 2010, 09:12 AM // 09:12

When you let classes use secondary weapons (and oftentimes, even skills) better than the primary profession they were designed for, you end up with ridiculous stuff like Elementalists healing better than Monks, Necromancers nuking better than Elementalists, Ritualists being better ranged physical AoE than Rangers, etc (which is exactly what we have). Worse yet, there's no guarantee that the class who got kicked out of his job will have something else worth doing (coughDervishcough).

Another issue is that Anet obviously balances skills and weapons around the class that has them. They clearly did not expect assassins to use scythes, Necromancers to use weapon spells, and Paragons to shout "Save Yourselves!" at the top of their lungs. This leads to grossly overpowered builds.

cellamaret · Jul 22, 2010, 05:25 PM // 17:25

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Originally Posted by Mintha Syl

Because without classes it would be a totally different game maybe?

without classes it would be like runescape, and we dont want another one of those do we?

Also, they really arent forcing the classes to only use their primary profession's weapons although it seems like it. Skills like Way of the Master help when you use other weapons.

Skyy High · Jul 22, 2010, 05:38 PM // 17:38

Most of the gimmicky OP builds are (were) cases of secondary abuse. It's probably one of the main contributing factors to ANet taking out secondary professions from GW2, certainly one of the main benefits...