Certian Professions Ideas that i have heard and agreed with

Originally Posted by Seth Deathcaller

Now, I have seen ninja, shapeshifter, assassin, druid, shaman, and a few others that I would prefer not to list because it would take too long. I have heard assassin, ninja, and thief in almost every post, so I wont even touch that. Shapeshifter, even though I agree that it would add a little flavor, I have seen it a few times also along with shamen (another form of shapeshifter). However, I am going to concentrate on something that I have seen in a few of these threads - the new weapons that they might incorporate like pole-arms and then hand-to-hand. Now, I greatly accept these with open arms because right now the warrior is the only main melee in the game. I think two more, based off of pole arms and hand-to-hand, would be great...something like the Brawler and Dragoon Lancer for their names or something like that would be awesome.

The Brawler (im just using the names that I listed as an example, they dont have to be this) would have the main attribute of damage reduction (which only the Brawler could get), then hand-to-hand, then speed increase (both attack and movement will be effected by this) and tactics. The damage for hand-to-hand would be that of a hammer, but the attacking speed would be that of an axe(if you dont count the previous attribute of speed). Their armor would be that of a warrior . So...when they hit, they would cause the damage of a hammer. Also, when they have the best armor that they can get, they use their armor as a weapon so they can get armor upgrades besides runes (except vampiric upgrades).

The Dragoon Lancer would revolve around polearms, of course, like halberds, pole axes, and a few more weapons like a much bigger sword that would need two hands to use. They couldn't use a shield, so the damage would be much greater than the hammer since they are so big. The damage would, of course, be greater than that of a regular warrior since they are used to wielding such large weapons with great potential. The main attribute for this profession would be strength, then pole arms mastery, then two handed swordsmanship, then speed - same as the last profession that I suggested. The speed of the weapons that they would be using would be the same or even slower than a hammer, hence why I have speed as one of its attributes. I would like any feedback that you would give and/or any suggestions to any attributes or weapon speeds for the polearm profession and such.

Originally Posted by MistressYichi

wow that was much more cohearant than the OP, tyvm as for class ideas, seems to me that everyone wants to turn the guildwars character selection in to almsot every other game o nthe market. almost every game has an assassin, a ninja, a druid.... those classes get old. and while yes it is difficult to come up with a different style of class and type of character, those characters have already been done over and over again.

Personally i would like to see some type of another melee char added to the game. that way everyone will stop complaining that warriors are the only melee class.

Originally Posted by Zhou Feng

Elementalist = Mage done
Monk = Healer/Cleric/Priest types done
Warrior = Warrior done
Necromancer = Necromancer done
Mesmer = Illusionist done
Ranger = Ranger done

Well what you know " as for class ideas, seems to me that everyone wants to turn the guildwars character selection in to almsot every other game o nthe market. almost every game has an assassin, a ninja, a druid" so do they have warrior, healer, necro, mage, illusionist, ranger... so whats with adding more?

Originally Posted by beginners_luck

The only trouble with coming up with new, original professions, when we lack the insight of the creative/developing team is that with class combinations, we can have pretty much every kind of class in the book. You want a warrior/mage? Go W/E or E/W. Want an alchemist, go defensive E/Mo. Want a druid, go E/R or R/E, and R/W for a sorta shapeshifter, though you're really using a pet.

Originally Posted by MSecorsky

Hey, we need, imo, a swordsman. Think along the lines of the three musketeers swashbuckling type, or the sabre fencer. Add a unique line of swords that do not work with the warrior sword skills and add unique attributes for the swordsman and you have another melee character that's unique from the generic tank yet potentially still quite deadly in combat.

Skills would be energy based, not adrenaline based (if you've ever fenced you'll understand why).

Originally Posted by NatalieD

But the warrior sword skills are already swashbuckler-like. They just don't have sword models to match.