The Professions

[Boden]

hey guys im a big fan of the gw and just found out about the gw2, but from what i can see the professions are the classes right, but i wanna know if the professions are race bases or can any race be any profession?

[JohnnyV]

Arenanet has announced that every profession will be available for every race. Though, when they've mentioned they always so apprehensive about it. So this might be a decisions they change down the road.

Welcome to the site btw!

[AnimeFreak40K]

I never noticed any apprehensiveness about it... but if this is true, then what I see them doing is something along the lines of what has been done with expansions and whatnot;

The professions that have already been released will be professions that all races can have, but a further campaign/expansion may introduce new classes (much like the GW campaigns) that are race-specific instead of campaign/expansion specific.

[JohnnyV]

I'll try and hunt down the interview, but one of the designers was asked the question. And when he answered, he seemed to stutter and didn't sound really confident in the answer. This might have just been a mark against his interview skills though.

[AnimeFreak40K]

Perhaps...and even then, the only interviews and such I have were ones I have read, so it could merely be smoke and mirrors there too.

But who knows? Maybe expansions and such will grant us some race specific classes instead of the 'core' classes that we see here.

I am *really* curious about what they are going to do with Cantha and Elona down the road.

[Boden]

thanks jonnyv, but i see is hard for say the gnomes or be a hunter class, or the charr being a healer class, and i also cant find an accurate release date, do you guys know?

[JohnnyV]

No release date as of yet. All we have to go by is Gamestop saying November 14 I think. But that's really nothing substantial.

[AnimeFreak40K]

thanks jonnyv, but i see is hard for say the gnomes or be a hunter class, or the charr being a healer class, and i also cant find an accurate release date, do you guys know?

Not really... there were Asura Warriors in GW. I think some carried bows in one of the dungeons, as there were Charr Healers...not that the last part really matters too much, as there won't be any healing classes for GW2. None. You will have "Support" classes that provide buffs and de-buffs, but no strict healers.

[Boden]

that is a really interesting concept, most mmo's all have healers, to not have healers and hold you own ground will make it very interesting, weather i like the idea, i dont know i guess we will have to play to find out lol

[Venn]

While every other mmo dev struggles to make carbon copies of the outdated world of warcraft paradigms, Guild Wars 2 is going to put the genre on its head, trim the fat, and keep in what makes a co-op rpg experience fun. I don't even think it's a matter of getting my expectations up too high at this point.