Guild Wars 2

I ask this question because a lot of posters have said that the light/medium/heavy armour choices by profession should be evened out. They say there’s already 3 lights and 3 mediums, so heavy should go from 2 to 3.

But what if there will always be more players playing heavy armour professions? What if, across MMOs, players represent heavy armour classes more than others.

For example, if the number of classes played actively by the whole player base tended to divide like this steadily over time (regardless of the mechanics of those classes):

Light = 30%
Medium = 30%
Heavy = 40%

then the economy and market would be heavily influenced by this distribution (and possibly distribution of armour types dropped would need to mirror this, too). Designing new classes may take the representation of armour types into account for the initial novelty phase of the class being implemented, but if the player base either within GW2 or across MMOs tends to have a majority in the Heavy Armour wearers (for whatever reason), then how much does the class options to armour types ratio matter?

This hypothetical model suggests that
playerbase : armour types
is more relevant than
class options : armour types

I haven’t given reasons for why the professions would be distributed unequally, but this possible description for what is happening would very much influence what new classes would be introduced. A simple ratio of class to armour type is not the only statistic that matters when designing new professions.

I want one more heavy armoured profession since i only like to play with heavy ^^

Sure, why not. The question is what kind of role it will serve in group combat. I’m thinking something like a warlock or battle-mage could work, where it’s like a guardian but with control instead of support skills.

Czar Peter.7961:

Sure, why not. The question is what kind of role it will serve in group combat. I’m thinking something like a warlock or battle-mage could work, where it’s like a guardian but with control instead of support skills.

An Iron Monk!

mesmer,ele,necro = range (light armor)
thief,ranger,engi = melee+range (medium armor)
warrior,guardian = melee + range (heavy armor)

Check out the official website, wallpaper section.
There’s 1 profession called commando =D

I personally wanna see ArenaNet’s take on a Shadowknight type class.

Minstrel, nuff said.

I think you are over thinking too much here. Certainly the game could use more Heavy Armour classes and I am sure they will come in future with expansions. If they bring in the Paragon from GW 1 for example I should imangine it would be a heavy armour class.

Heavy + medium!

Since i want them to introduce Ritualists next, i’m obviously against making the next prof heavy armor one.

Astralporing.1957:

Since i want them to introduce Ritualists next, i’m obviously against making the next prof heavy armor one.

Oh how I miss me some Ghost Spamming!!!!

On Topic: Sure another heavy class. I play a Guardian but not interested in Warrior. A control class would be nice. C’mon get yer stun on!

Only class I could think that would fit into a 3rd heavy armor class would be Barbarian.

Paragon.

100% ranged, low base vit and low base toughness.

Class mechanic: Chants: Chant of Command, Chant of Leadership, Chant of Motivation.

Command + Command: + Vit
Leadership + Leadership: + Tough
Motivation + Motivation: + Power
Command + Leadership: + Prec
Command + Motivation: + Con Duration
Leadership + Command: + Crit Damage
Leadership + Motivation: + Con Damage
Motivation + Command: + Healing
Motivation + Leadership: + Boon Duration

Weapons: Longbow, Pistol, Shield, Warhorn, Torch.

HaseKent.1843:

Check out the official website, wallpaper section.
There’s 1 profession called commando =D

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Commando

This profession does not exist. It was created by ArenaNet specifically for April Fools’ Day 2011.

Deathknight!

Oh …what?….wait….has that been done before?!

This thread seems to be missing the point I made in the OP. I was saying that just because there are 2 heavy classes and 3 of the other two is not a straight forward reason for adding another heavy armour class. There are more factors to consider than this.

Actually, in the example I gave, if the number of professions available represented the playerbase, then it’s potentially more reasonable to have more professions of the type most players play.
For example, if hypothetically:
% ppl playing light = 20%
% ppl playing medium = 30%
% ppl playing heavy = 50%
then there’s possibly good marketing sense to make the number of professions in each category represent this distribution (i.e., of 10 professions make 2 light, 3 medium, 5 heavy).

Of course, this is all based on the hypothesis that the playerbase is naturally skewed towards some play-styles that are represented by the armour types worn.

FacesOfMu.3561:

Of course, this is all based on the hypothesis that the playerbase is naturally skewed towards some play-styles that are represented by the armour types worn.

Considering that a single armor type can cover such different classes as engineer, ranger and thief, with significantly differing playing styles, that hypothesis doesn’t sound that correct to me.

Out of left field but I still like the idea of any class using any armor but with movement penalties…

Yep. We want another heavy arm.

Next profession will be Ritualist imo.
A Ritualist was in the screenshots of the last blog post.

The class was somewhat boring to me in GW1 but others love it so be it.

I’d much rather see a cloth user that uses buffs and enchants to increase his armor and stats so we could see a cloth melee user. An armor wearing caster really isn’t going to do it for me, but these are the only 2 things this game seems to be missing.