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Glitched · Jul 09, 2006, 03:17 AM // 03:17

I prefer to play only the skills of my primary profession, but admit that the 2-professions is one of the key features of guild wars, and wouldnt want to get rid of it. On the other hand, having single professions would make balancing much easier, and would open up new possibilities for professions. Pro's and Con's both ways I guess.

The Great Al · Jul 09, 2006, 04:21 AM // 04:21

ive only played WoW once or twice at a friends house...the one thing i loved about it was, when i played as a mage, i actually felt like i was really playing as a mage...all the mage skills were awesome. Now its like everyone is a mix of 2 classes and 8 skills.

wilebill · Jul 09, 2006, 05:09 AM // 05:09

Except for my ele, everything else is primary only. There are not enough attrib points for secondary without robbing Peter to pay Paul.

GW should have two sets of attrib points. One could be applied only to primary, the other smaller set only to secondary. This would result in the variety of builds the game designers had hoped for. Don't know why they did not do this.

Skyy High · Jul 09, 2006, 06:34 AM // 06:34

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Originally Posted by The Great Al

i kind of wish this would happen. classes have absolutely no uniqueness in this game...we should only be able to choose 1 profession, but have a lot more skills in our skillbar

- Primary Attribute
- Armor Choice
- Runes
- Base Energy pool and regen

Yeah, I can see how every secondary classes make everyone the same. Excuse me as I go make my w/mo into a dedicated healer...

The truth itself · Jul 09, 2006, 08:32 AM // 08:32

Hamstorm is terrible!

Guild wars without 2nd proffessions, it would not be guild wars, t would be your average MMORPG.

Only primary, nokthxbye.

Saying classes have no uniqueness?

- Dances (genderwise also)
- Your visual appearience.

mega_jamie · Jul 09, 2006, 08:39 AM // 08:39

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Originally Posted by Pueblo

and also knowing when u vs a warrior he will ONLY use warrior skills....

I think thats why they did it, eventually people would simply pack a blind spell or something for warriors, and without a decent monk, they would be shut down near perma, atleast with 2 classes you can have a chance to do something else.

Personally I wudnt play GW if it was a 1 class char game, it wouldnt be as fun.

Curse You · Jul 09, 2006, 09:10 AM // 09:10

Some quotes from the Original Guild Wars box(yes I keep it in my desk).

Quote:

Create your avatar from over thirty different profession combinations and hundreds of unique skills that combine for escalating power

I don't know about you, but I doubt any game would have 30 different character types.

Quote:

Combine skills from two professions, link them yourself or chain them with teammate's skills to devastate your enemies

This just plain out says it. Two professions.

So there is actually no excuse for thinking that Guild Wars would be one profession based and being annoyed when it's actually two.

Age · Jul 09, 2006, 09:46 AM // 09:46

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Originally Posted by The truth itself

Hamstorm is terrible!

Guild wars without 2nd proffessions, it would not be guild wars, t would be your average MMORPG.

Only primary, nokthxbye.

Saying classes have no uniqueness?

- Dances (genderwise also)
- Your visual appearience.

The Henchies are only one class and if you want in pvp you can play only one class if you want but not in pve.The thing about the boon signet it could use a boost.

Mr_Unlucky · Jul 09, 2006, 10:40 AM // 10:40

What is Hamstorm?

Raxxman · Jul 09, 2006, 12:45 PM // 12:45

I think in a warriors case its important to max out your weapon (dammage is your bread and butter) and often tactics (sheilds + heal) or strength (sheilds) the pay off is you have limited points to put into other skills.

Also having next to 0 energy regen, and a small energy pool causes problems when trying to use other classes skills, which are all energy based.

I've been running pure warrior since becons.

tear · Jul 09, 2006, 01:11 PM // 13:11

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Originally Posted by Mr_Unlucky

What is Hamstorm?

You will know it when you encounter it.

And forever further, you will live in fear of it.

thor hammerbane · Jul 09, 2006, 01:39 PM // 13:39

Unless it's for GvG or something like that, I just run pure primary builds (except for rez), wars have weapon skills and some strength (+ressurect), and monk is pure monk..Wouldnt change much

actionjack · Jul 09, 2006, 07:12 PM // 19:12

Dual prof is why I love GW.
Don't take my love away.

The truth itself · Jul 10, 2006, 02:16 AM // 02:16

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Originally Posted by Age

The Henchies are only one class and if you want in pvp you can play only one class if you want but not in pve.The thing about the boon signet it could use a boost.

So you would force people to use a boon signet build, gg balance.

Monks need energy management, and support skills.

One proffession would be plain dumb, and it would remove the beauti of the game.

blood4blood · Jul 10, 2006, 02:55 AM // 02:55

Dual-class & multi-class is a pretty old concept by RPG standards (1st ed. AD&D anyone?), and Guild Wars is relatively simplistic as far as sheer number of character variables (i.e. compare it to Shadowbane or NWN or just about any other game with different character races, base ability stats, skill stats, equipment stats, no 8-skill limit, etc.). While I often use "pure" or single-class builds in GW, I see no reason to limit characters to just one class.