Guild Wars 2

With the recent new content, an idea came to mind for a third soldier profession, one based on the aspects. A more mobile and elegant warrior that draws upon a combination of their skills with weapons and Wind, Sun, and Lightning to combat opponents.

F1-F3 keys would be each of the aspects in combination with their current weapon set.

I’d probably go with sword(s), dagger(s), off-hand mace, off-hand axe, main hand pistol, shortbow, and rifle; maybe focus or shield.

Maybe introduce a new tactic with them: ‘distracted/disarmed’, which would disable the opponent’s slot 1 for a short time (1-2 seconds).

As far as utility skills, possibly have some taunts, dirty tricks, and some lunging maneuvers inspired by the aspect movement skills we’ve seen (dive attack, sun rush, lightning ambush, etc) and definitely some things to help round them out for survivability and situational necessities.

Trait lines: Wind (Power & Critical Damage), Lightning (Precision & Condition Damage), Grounding (Toughness & Healing Power), Sun (Vitality & Boon Duration), Adaptation (Aspect recharge rate/Aspect strength & Condition Duration)

Some immediate critiques:
It could seem like a cross between warrior and elementalist, with a bit of thief.
Adding a profession to the game at this point would be a ton of work, especially balancing and testing.

So, basically a magic samurai.

Meh, I’m down.

I really like the idea. A mix of multiple professions with its own uniqueness. Could be really interesting and I think it would fit with the game lore.

I would settle for being able to sun dash everywhere

It’s a cool idea, buttt if you could use the awesome aspect skills it’d be OP, and if you couldn’t it’d make no sense.