What GW1 profession do you want in GW2?

[InsaneQR.7412]

Dervish mechanics of deleting enchantments is basically Spellbreaker.Ritu is engineer and paragon is all over guard and warrior.But a AoE melee spec for warrior would be a fantastic dervish. With a support aspect to it that grants benefits by applying and deleting control conditions on targets and basically an anti cleanse spec would be cool and the antithesis of Sbreaker. Ofc it could be put on another profession like rev or guard, although i have no clue what weapon i would give guard.

[Udolpho.1209]

So not having played GW1, I don't care about any of these.

But I do love the new elite specs, so if they made some that somewhat matched these thematically I'd be okay with it, so long as it seemed really unique and interesting. But maybe going forward is better than going backwards? Create new things that people can come to love.

[Crab Fear.1624]

I know the "lore" and official wiki says that thief is a rework of assassin, but it feel more like this:

assassin was the first cell in the primordial ooze, and thief is the blob that crawled out.

I want to be the cell.

[Late For Tea.1846]

This poll misses the Commando profession. April fools' 2011 was a blast, literally.

But yea, as others have said: Paragon is practically a guardian, ritualist is largely an engineer and the dervish profession wouldn't fit well with other races. That said I'd love to see dervish return, it was by far my favorite class in GW1.

[Zaraki.5784]

You forgot the 4th option: MONK!

[Chay.7852]

Heard the ritualist kinda works like the engineer or scourge

Ritu is engineer

Did you guys ever play a rit...? Engi doesn't even come close to the rit... i keep hearing this since i've started gw2, almost 6 years ago.

From GW Wiki:

Ritualists channel other-worldly energies that summon allies from the void and employ mystic binding rituals that bend those allies to the Ritualist's will.How does this sound engi-like to you?

Engis don't use magic at all while rits were using mists magic. If you talk about spirit spammer rit, then maybe a shatter mesmer is a bit similar. Spawning an entity to attack something, destroying it to cause an effect... sort of mobile spirits. Or rev.. since he is using mists magic as well. But what about urns? What about weapon spells?

I'd like to have a rit here, in GW2, though i know they might never come. And if it has to be an elite specialization, then please for the rev...

[Clyan.1593]

@"Crab Fear.1624" said:I know the "lore" and official wiki says that thief is a rework of assassin, but it feel more like this:

assassin was the first cell in the primordial ooze, and thief is the blob that crawled out.

I want to be the cell.

XD

This is very true.

[Elric.4713]

Ritualist as an Elite Specialization for Revenant, they already have a lot of thematic similarities.

[Uden Reavstone.3426]

@Trise.2865 said:Don't need them. Already have those.

@Uden Reavstone.3426 said:

@Ashabhi.1365 said:

@"Oglaf.1074" said:The only one which doesn’t seem to already be represented by current classes is Dervish.

Actually, I seem to have Dervish-like abilities as a Reaper in shroud. On the other hand, I would give my eye teeth for a Rit.

I take it that you never truely played Dervish in GW1. Yeah, they use scythes, but that's all they have in common with Reaper's Shroud. The main mechanic for the Dervish is Teardowns, and there is nothing close to that in GW2.

Mesmer says "Hi", and points to an illusion of her main mechanic building up... which then Shatters.

I guess, but not really. Teardown has alot more strategy involved. Which Enchantments do I want to Teardown? Those are applied last. All illusions are Shattered at the same time. Enchantments are Teardown one at a time.

[Glider.5792]

Im kind of afraid that Renegade sort of became the "Ritualist elite spec". Due to that i dont belive we will be seeing anything similar to Ritualist anymore.

[Ithilwen.1529]

Monk for sure.

The "modern" vanilla Mesmer is essentially a SoS ( Signet of Spirits ) Ritualist with some Mesmer undertones. So ritualist is already more-or-less in the game. The spirits are weaker and mobile.. but it's essentially the same thing. GW1 Ritualist can even "shatter" spirits.

I'd love to see a more "mesmerish" Mesmer with sabotage spells.

[Dami.5046]

none of them. sadly.

[Sylvari.2953]

I wasn't a huge fan of GW1 but my Spirit Spammer Ritualist was FUN. :)

[Iris Ng.9845]

Ritualist. Revenant is more of a Dervish (wielding legends = god blessings as specific power boosts) than Ritualist with their unique weapon enchantments (professional buffs), item spells (tool kits/weapon summons) and spirit summonings (- AI).

[Liewec.2896]

i'll say paragon because there are a butt load of awesome looking spears in the game and they're locked behind the terrible water combat,lets get those spears out of the pond and into the sunlight!

[Ithilwen.1529]

I agree on spears. They could be the equivalent of bows or staffs. I'd pay gems for that.

[Eekasqueak.7850]

Paragon would work as a Guardian elite spec.

[perilisk.1874]

@Oglaf.1074 said:The only one which doesn’t seem to already be represented by current classes is Dervish.

Dervish is spread out between different things. Human racials, spellbreaker, general melee cleave. You could probably pull them all together and get something close.

[perilisk.1874]

@Eekasqueak.7850 said:Paragon would work as a Guardian elite spec.

Of course, spears are probably not happening. Still hoping to get an updated version as a dual-pistol mystical gunslinger with old-school chants and blessed bullets.

[ScottBroChill.3254]

I say ritualist, preferably on the revenant. Give my spooky swordsman some spooky spells.

[Player.9621]

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GW1 is still up and running and the only way youre ever going to get anything close to anything that game offers is if you reinstall and play it

[Zaklex.6308]

One again someone fails the all important poll creation by leaving off the absolutely necessary option of None of the Above.

[Timarius.2895]

I just want more weapons. Scythes, two handed axes, spears, polearms, flatbows...

EDIT: Since I did vote Dervish, it's safe to say I'd rather see it come back as a scythe wielding elite for Revenant seeing as the Revenant is basically the Dervish + Ritualist in a sense.

[Rhyse.8179]

Mesmer.

No, the GW2 version doesn't count. GW1 and GW2 mesmers have nothing in common.

[Hyper Cutter.9376]

@"starhunter.6015" said:I know Dervish is/was locked behind the human gods, but maybe we can get something newer that pays tribute to the old dervish? Maybe borrow a page from the Zephyrites and Elementalists and go with the aspects or elements instead ?If only we had a profession that channeled the magic of race-neutral powerful figures. "Legends", if you will...

@Chay.7852 said:Did you guys ever play a rit...? Engi doesn't even come close to the rit... i keep hearing this since i've started gw2, almost 6 years ago.

From GW Wiki:

Ritualists channel other-worldly energies that summon allies from the void and employ mystic binding rituals that bend those allies to the Ritualist's will.How does this sound engi-like to you?

Engis don't use magic at all while rits were using mists magic. If you talk about spirit spammer rit, then maybe a shatter mesmer is a bit similar. Spawning an entity to attack something, destroying it to cause an effect... sort of mobile spirits. Or rev.. since he is using mists magic as well. But what about urns? What about weapon spells?You're looking at the flavor, not the function, when the latter is why people are making the comparison. Ritualist spirits and engineer turrets are functionally the same, and engineer kits work pretty much how ritualist urns would have to work in the context of GW2's combat system