Guild Wars 2

Type: Use of forgotten magic used through weapons to command the elements in a direct force. Cooldown based.

Weapons(Land): Main-hand: Sword, Dagger, Mace, or Scepter.
Off-hand: Dagger, shield, focus, sword(please areanet).

Weapons(Water):Doesn’t matter, underwater combat needs fixing to start with. Along the lines of lightning and water based with melee combination.

Utility: Instead of listing randomly thought up utility skills, basically all of their utility will be a mix of Fighter and caster like mesmer but they don’t use illusions, they use the elements such as earth, air(lightning), fire, and water. They don’t cast spells, rather they direct the elements using their weapons kind of like the fiery Greatsword elementalists spawn but with a mix of close up combat like that of a warrior or thief.

Elite Skills:
Magic Mirror- Silence(as in they cannot use skills, like daze pretty much) the enemy for 10 seconds and replace your weapon attacks with the enemies. Cooldown 90 seconds. Can press elite skill again to go back to old weapon skills while maintaining the silnce/daze. Cannot Use against anything whose skills would be overkill like world event bosses or legendaries. Only difficulty with making this elite would be scaling the dmg so it isn’t overkill otherwise all would flock like birds to this elite.
Pulsing Energy- Releases pulses around you dealing damage each time and inflicting one random condition to nearby foes each strike. Lasts 15 seconds, 1 pulse per 1.5 seconds.(so 10 hits with 10 random conditions) Cooldown: maybe 150 seconds or more. This elite is for more upclose builds of this profession since you want these pulses to hit the enemy.
Elemental Ferocity- You gain power over mystic swords in both hands and your basic attacks are equiped with the 4 elements for 30 seconds. Cooldown 240 seconds. Switch to each on with F1-F4(like elementalist) Using your sword skills while attuned will grant all attacks a bonus effect. Effects such as splash dmg, Knockback, far ranged “melee” attacking, Dashes, boon offerings, stuns, etc. This elite equips you with a sword in both hands and gives a unique utility from each element offering a different playstyle the player can choose from during the 30 seconds.

Since this is a hybrid type profession, it could be introduced as a new profession while fitting into the lore. With the new forces erupting all over tyria, whose to say people havn’t come across ways to harness or utilize them as a style of combat? Please look into AreaNet ^^

We already have three battle mages in the game though: guardians, mesmer and dual dagger elementalist

I think a new profession would have to be more unique than that, which is hard because the current professions already cover pretty much every class type you can come up with.

We have three scholars, three adventurers and two soldiers, so the next new profession would have to be a soldier class. But between guardian (paladin/cleric) and warrior (fighter/barbarian/berserker), the heavy armor fantasy classes are all covered.

The only room I see would be for some kind of anti-paladin death knight class, which would just be a copy from WoW.

There might also be room for a shapeshifting class I guess, a druid/shaman version that would have four shapes F1-4 to choose from and switch between with a cooldown, like attunments, or else like the engineer kits have shapeshifting utilities.

It is hard to make new, but like the skills in Gw1, many were repeats with a different look and style which is all you can really make different between professions. As for shapeshifting, unfortunatly they already have norn race cover that so it would take away the fun of being norn if it was put into a profession all people could use.