Which GW1 profession is for the chop for GW2?

Came in here to say this.

I think you could give the core classes a lot more depth by shifting some skills and attributes of the non-core classes to the core classes.

The warrior in GW is pretty straight forward in most of his skills ie: hammer line, axe line, sword line. It would make the warrior profession much more interesting if, instead of splitting the weapon skills, they made one line of skills to fit any melee weapon the warrior chooses to carry. Then you could shift some of the Dervish skills into the warrior class to give it a hell of a lot more depth.

Same could go for the Monk class. Shift some of the Ritualists Heal spells over to the Monk to make a new breed of Healer.

Necro could possibly take on the Ritualists Spirit summoning abilities. Or give some raised minions some of the specialities and attributes that spirits have, like blinding, extra dmg, healing and so on. Changes minions from being mindless meat sheilds to having a much more important purpose.

The Mesmer could maybe take on some of the paragons shouts and buffs to make them more party friendly???? I dunno I like the mesmer class and think they have great depth already.

Assasins are fun. I think they could be re-worked in some way to make them a bit more resilient and offer more to the party.

All in all I hope they keep the core profession but give them more depth.

Assassins can be merged with Mesmers. Lyssa's Propfession.
Warriors with Paragons. Balthazar's.
And Necromancers with Ritualists. Grenth's.

Dervishes and Eles have the 'all gods' common point too.

QFT.

Useless speculation, thread over.

I don't think we are going to see any professions scrapped completely, some will just get combined into another to create new profession.

For example: Warrior + Mesmer mix gives an assassin-type profession. Think about it, shadow arts, shadowsteps in general, along with calculated strikes that must be preformed in a certain order is basically what an assassin is. And tell me that deftly shadowsteping in and out of battle isn't the kind of chaos that mesmers love? Siphon strength would be a perfect example of a good mesmer skill as well.

Warrior + Monk = Paragon. Just give warriors a spear and spear skills. Monks have things like 'Healing Whisper' and 'Resurrection Chant' which are already paragon-sounding, and a monk who follows balthazar could have a few abilities based around adrenaline, since battle is what balthazar is about.

With a few additions to the old professions you really can recreate the spirit of most of the 4 extra's from factions/nightfall.

EDIT: since supposedly in guild wars 2 solo play is a valid way to adventure, I am pretty sure that paragons will get merged into warriors and other classes somehow.

paragon i think. that's the only profession that can't be conceivably reworked for the "emergent complexity" skill system that they're planning.

If professions were merged and things changed, which most likely will happen to some degree, I think this would be the coolest idea of each God having one specific profession. I don't like the idea of adding more and more professions. I rather just more skills/attributes be added when needed, but keeping in mind the importance of balance. There could be six professions, 1 for each god, and then a seventh that kind of worships them all like the Dervish and Ele.

But I'm really not too worried about how they will do it. As long as the game is fun

"Anti-hero" fits, if you like, for the player character Necro, not "dark villain".

OP: I can see all the core classes easily returning.

If any i'd hope the EVER SO GLORIOUS mesmer, so pompous kids could stop trying to sound edgy when they say "Ya i play mezmer" like it takes a truly ingenious intellect to play one, and if you like to play this class in this video game, you are of absolute royalty. Please, stop glorifying pixels. It's a video game for Christ's sake.

Necros and Mesmers have a good chance to be merged into one "hexer" profession.

Dervishes are too much of a jack of all trades and paragons are way too overpowered. I think they might be redesigned or removed as well.

lol? ... are you retarded?

over glorified warriors?... wtf?... they don't do melee they are ranged with a shield that makes them warriors?... k nice reasoning noob... they are not used in PvE because NF character creating in their long noob isle is annoying. As for pvp they are quite powerful in spike damage and AoE buffs. They are great for pressure.

Ritualist only spirit spammers?... lol at this dumbass statement too. If you ever saw rits in melee with spirit strength or saw them as weapon spammer then you'd know they don't only use spirits. Their spirits are great support for pvp. Although no longer the meta in gvg their spirits can be easily seen in spiritway in HA.

To this idiotic statement i would like to say.... did you ever play any support class? ... next thing you know you're gonna say they should take out rangers because all they do is chuck arrows, they should take out monks because all they do is heal, they should take out warriors because all they do is train/swipe/switch and repeat, they should take out assassins because all they do is spike damage, they should take out necros because all they do is cast hexes, they should take out mesmers because all they do is drain energy, they should take out dervs because they just swing with their scythes, and they should take out elementalists because all they do is AoE and massive damage....

/highfive noob

I think Rits will probably get chopped. Cmon, they are necros that manipulates spirits instead of corpses !

Poor kitties....

I have always believed professions will be merged rather than removed.

Something along the lines of:

Rt+necro merged
Monk+Dervish (derv fighting stlye becomming the new smite)
paragon+warrior
and possibly sin+mesmer.

the only one i'd realy like to see is the derv+monk to finally make smite useful but not overpowered.

What makes you all think that the current professions as we know them will be carried over?

More than likely they will scrap them all and start over from scratch. New game = new professions.

And, yes Malice ...... poor kitties

Unfortunetely I think it may be Para's. I really dont know people dont use them more. I'm often shocked when pugs dont know what the godmode build does -.-

revert back to six core, move curses to mes, move restoration and communing to necro

QFT.

Please do this Anet.

No thankyou.

I think that quote is the most important. They are considering this, it's not a certainty.

My take on it is this: keep the new professions, or variations thereof in 250 years time, and just take the opportunity to restart and balance them for the meta game.

Paragons, Dervish, Mesmers and Assassins get my vote to be axed or even merged with another existing class.

ranger mixed with an assassin could provive a ranger who can dual weild daggers and still use a bow which would be a nice idea.

Mesmers can be easily merged with Necromancers.

Dervish and Paragons can be merged with the warrior class giving the warrior different options for weapons and other skills. It also would be cool to give the warrior the ability to dual weild as well.

Honestly though, we have no idea how anything is going to actually work. It has been almost a year since GW2 has been anounced and pretty much we all left in the dark until further notice :/