Guild Wars 2

The point of this thread is simply to find the most epic combination of race and class. It’s sort of everything goes, but I would like to hear your explanation on how robot-ninja-poodles would be lore-friendly or how you would navigate Lion’s Arch playing as Jormag. And of course existing races/classes are allowed.

So just give race and class. Optionally give examples of skills you would be using and/or some extra info about the race/class or why you chose them.

I made this an Q/A post so you can vote for characters you really like.

note This is not posted in the suggestions sub-forum, I’m sure the devs are busy enough without programming everyone’s personal fantasy. But who knows if your idea really impresses some people it might make it to the design table.

I’ll also start things off:
race: Margonite
class: Chronomancer

skills:
Staff: staff skills would work with Time Manipulation Fields, AoE condition/boon-based effects that trigger every second for everyone in the field.
Examples:

• Time Orb: Shoots an orb at foe dealing x damage and causing weakness(2s) on foes it passes through.
  —>Time Vortex: Cause orb to explode, transferring all boons/conditions from hit foes to you, dealing X damage per boon/condition transferred.
• Field of Aging: Creates a field for 5s causing Crippled(1s) and Vulnerability(2stacks, 3s) on foes every second.
• Freeze Time: Creates a field for 3s causing Immobilized(1s) on foes every second.
• Gift of Time: Creates a field for 2s increasing boon duration and reducing condition duration on allies by 1s every second.
• Curse of Time:Creates a field for 2s reducing boon duration and increasing condition duration on foes by 1s every second.

Dagger: dagger attacks work together to result in incredible burst damage followed by severe degen if timed correctly.

• Blade of Time: Teleport to target and strike for X damage. Damage is doubled if hits simultaneous with Sword of Damocles or Delayed Strike. Damage is tripled if hits simultaneous with Sword of Damocles and Delayed Strike.
• Sword of Damocles: Summon a sword at target foes location. After 1s the sword falls dealing X damage. Causes Bleeding(5 stacks, 5s) if hits simultaneous with Blade of Time.
• Delayed Strike: Summon a dagger that circles(at X yards) target foe, dealing Y damage to foes it passes through. After 3s target foe is hit for Z damage. Causes Poison(5s) if hits simultaneous with Blade of Time.

Shield: shield skills grant extra protection grant extra protection

• Future Sight: You are blinded for 5s but gain Protection and Retaliation for 10s
• Anticipation: Create a shield to block the next three attacks. If the shield is not destroyed, it grants you Stability for 5s.

Healing:

• Mantra of Restoration: Charge a skill that recharges your

Utility: Utility skills could be traps that cause control effects, portals(like line wards) that give boons to players that pas through them, …

• (Mc)Fly Trap: Creates a trap that when triggered teleports you to the trap location,knocks foes back X yards and sets them on fire for 5s.
• Rejuvenation Portal: Create a portal for 3s that grants fury, swiftness and vigor for 15s to allies passing through them.
• Reset Signet(passive): Remove 1 condition every 8 seconds.
• Reset Signet(active): Teleport back X yards and all weapon skills are recharged.

Elite:

• Summon Legend: Summon a random Legendary figure from the time of GW 1(Shiro, Undead Lich, Glint, Varesh Ossa, Gwen, Jora, celestial spirits, …) to fight with you for a short period.

Margonites: I chose them because I’ve been a big fan since Nightfall came out. They just look cool as all hell and their story has so much potential. Maybe Kormir took pity on the more remorseful Margonites and allowed them to found a city in the Desolation in exchange for their devotion.
There could be a splinter group under the leadership of The Lost trying to destroy every last Margonite.
They can only reproduce by converting others and live very long lives. Do they go door to door trying to convince people to join like Jehovah’s Witnesses. Or do they hunt new members like vampires.
Maybe it’s considered an honor to join their ranks because they are the only faction that can fight on par with Palawa Joko’s hordes.

Chronomancer: Chronomancers have always been my favorite RP class. They can gather ancient and lost knowledge first hand. The more they master their control over time the more they realize its impossible to control since the future changes simply by being known. Well anyone can tell you that time travel just is to cool for school.
Sadly they are very hard to convert to multi-player. Well just try keeping track of all the things affected by 1 chronomancer turning back 1 second of play. Now imagine the same for 5 or even 100 in WvW. But as you can tell from the skill section there are a lot of ways to give you the feeling of controlling time without altering the flow of time itself.
Thats why I was disappointed but not surprised when this particular Utopia feature did not make it into GW2.

Whoa I really let myself go in that skill section. As I said completely optional. I just had so much fun doing that and I hope you’ll have just as much fun telling me your Ultimate Character. Don’t forget to vote.