Which GW1 profession is for the chop for GW2?

I've always thought since nightfall was released that the dervish was the ultimate whammo.

Paragons can be godmode but they have a lot of counters, just not many people realise it. Lack of decent skills though.

Rits are pretty much a class of their own, with possibly the most useless primary attrib in the game.

Assassins break pvp, 'nuff said.


Definitely out of those professions to get the chop, the core professions are all balanced around each other.

Anyone else see the irony of that statement?

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Here's my thoughts, for what they are worth, from things I have read from ANET staff interviews and such:

You choose a race to play <fact>. It seems likely that each race will have inherent strength and weakness. Next, <specualtion> you choose a class, either to augment that race's strenth or to eleviate the weakness. As you play you have the option of improving certain aspects (similiar to attributes) of your character. In other words, a totally open-ended progression where the player actually chooses what his/her character will become.

Discuss?

lol and, whats the problem of Assassins using their own kind of cultural magic ?

nobody would force you to play an Assassine then with those skills oO... come on, anet already gave the game a hairstyle, that nearly looks like a 1:1 copy and paste from Naruto, only with the exception, that the symbol for the different hometowns isn't shown on the headband

Not to mention the hundrweds over thousands of players, which surely named characters "Naruto" .. its the same, like thousands over thousands of Legolas-Rangers run around in Guild Wars, does it anyone disturb, as if the world would be doomed through this fact ? XD.

I personally would find assassine incredible awesome, wheny they would have in GW2 a gameplay mixture of GW1, Assassins's Creed, Naruto and the upcoming EVAN Online.
This together would make Assassins imo together the perfect mix out of Persian and Asian Culture, with the looks of GW1 and the stylish martial arts Action-Gameplay of EVAN-Online together with the correct cultured Weapon for Assassins -the Katar.

PS: @quickmonty: who flames me first, gets it straight back, so simple. I at least know, where to stop flaming and can discuss things, without startening things with flame postings to provoke others only, because nothing else are those flames - just provocations.
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About your theory: I can say only.. its possible, but as you say. racial strengths and weakness - something, that very many of the Anti-GW2 Whiners really don't like to hear *g*, because they think then automatically only about WoW and that GW2 will become just a WoW-Clone due to this, with a bad concept, which will end in plyers playing only Norn-Warriors, only Asura-Elementalists and only Sylvari-Monks ect. pp. XD

i think the dervish/para/ritualist will be cut, despite those being my favourite classes

Most likely Rit will be cut (thank freaking god), but possibly the Paragon as well.

I like the 4 professions that were added after proph but I feel that they could be incorporated somehow into the 6 core professions. I think if anything the 6 core should stay and the rest go. If anet did not want to incorporate them into the other professions that also leaves room for additions later on in the future through campaigns and/or expansions.

I really do think all 4 of the professions introduced after Proph are getting to get chopped, their weapons,etc will be reintroduced into the core classes. gets more armor buwhaha

Personally, I want all 10 classes to remain in some way. I don't know how many people were around to feel the pain of being FORCED to play a warrior if you wanted to get in someone's face to do some hacking.

Sins and dervs were given as an alternative to the "wammo" stereotype, and I for one would be disappointed if our options on building our own unique character were in any way hampered.

According to the GW2 Wiki, Cantha has been cut off from Tyria and Elona due to the rising of Orr. Therefore, because of the current lore available, I would say Assassin and Ritualists are going. If this is true, I'm going to be sad. Ritualists are one of my favorite classes to play...

There will likely be more classes than we can currently speculate. And it may be that a single character can play any of them, changing primaries as easily as we can now change our secondaries.

Each profession will have a token amount of leveling to be done (see GW1) to reach full attributes etc. thus the seemingly endless leveling of one primary character, with multiple Primary/secondary professions. New professions released every expansion and on an on.

Axe the assassins and mesmers they are a waste of space.

My favourite bit of not information to come out about Guild Wars 2 recently. Quoted from Izzy's talk page on the official wiki

Enjoy trying to decide what that means. :P

lol ur dum. Mesmers are one of the best classes, you're just bad.

Actually I would think the Dervish are the class that could be most easily dropped.

Sins would be next on the block.

As for Mesmers and Paragons they both have much greater potential for improvement than most any other class with the correct tweeks to current skills and some new skills.

Nope you are the dum one I stomp mesmers and sins all the time in pvp. Easy and nobody wants them in pve except if they have UB, so, no use wasting space on mesmers and sins anymore.

I am seriously having issues understanding what this post is about.
And judging by the parts that I do understand - can I have some of what you're smoking? Out of medical reasons OF COURSE!

I would have to say dervish.

Yeah' i'd probably end up playing the class you described, but still....it is catering to the "Naruto" sins, and the class would get a bad reputation.

If they removed a profession, would that not just bone someone who added to their Hall of Monuments with that profession? Or did I misinterpret the function of HoM?

i say kill the derv and sin and keep para rit and core 6