Guild Wars 2

The Norn are known for their animal blessings, and a lot of the times we get to turn into those animals. Why not turn it into a class?

Have it have a high skill cap like the elementalist, but instead of being primarily ranged, you are primarily melee. Less weapons to use, but lots of blessings (attunements)

Druid

Medium Armor Wearer

F1 – Bear
F2 – Wolf
F3 – Snow Leopard
F4 – Raven?

Bear would be brute force with some defensive utility moves to protect you.

Wolf would be bleeds with mobility and dashes

Snow Leopard would be an ambushing, stealthy build…power rather than bleeds

Raven would be kinda hard to do model wise…but you could go bleeds with some blinds and passive evading

I understand this would kind of take away from the Norn racial skills, but this is more flat turning into the animals rather than turning into a humanoid version of the animal.

Just a thought that came across my mind while playing my Norn.

Instead of raven (going outside the whole norn thing), they could put in something else that would give powerful defensive abilities (heals) for more of a support roll like the water attunement.

I have seen people talk about this a few times. In my opinion, I think the animations would get on my nerves. From the Norn starting area where you get turned into a leopard, the animations seemed weird to me.

The reason this won’t happen is because that’s a race specific class. The only way I could see them ever possibly doing something like that is if each race had a race specific class who for all intents and purposes was the same class, but has a different name flavored for the race.

Norns have animal-changing abilities, Hunters have animals in general, NO MORE ANIMALS IN THIS GAME! HORRIBLE IDEA. Nuff said.

like simplekingly said, there is too more animals. I would actualy like if they bring back ritualist, paragon and dervich

the next new class is probably going to be heavy armour since there are only 2 heavies… also indeed won’t work unless it works for every race.

There are plenty of professions from gw1 that would be a better idea than trying to reinvent the wheel with a whole new one :p

hmm

well how about

Norn – Bear (Tanky)
Asura – Raptor (Stealthy)
Human – cant think of anything (Support)
Sylvari – Fern Hound/Wolf (Power DPS)
Charr – Devourer (Condition DPS)