Guild Wars 2

A lot of people seem excited about this class and a lot of people think it will be like gw1 ritualist.

Am I the only extremely hoping this isn’t the case?

Firstly a heavy armor ritualist I simply don’t understand.
Secondly isn’t engineer turret build the new ritualist already?

I really hope the new class is its own new class and nothing like a ritualist. As it’s a heavy armor class I kinda hope it’s just in a sense similar to warrior and guardian but with a ghosty feel to skills and utilities.

It’s not a ritualist, from my understanding the primary difference is that you channel spirits, not summon them. In other words it will be kind of like an ele (attunements) in heavy armor.

it’s like a ritualist lore-wise, but in terms of mechanics it sounds a lot more like dervish.

Well, everything I’ve seen from the trailer points towards more of a Dervish with Ritualist themes. Notice that most of Rytlock’s displayed powers were self-empowering. For example, he gained stealth (likely by calling on Vizu or Shiro). He also summoned what appeared to be Glint as a powerful one-shot attack (probably Elite).

If it borrows from the Ritualist, I wouldn’t expect stationary turret-like Spirits. If it has spirits at all, I would expect (and hope) for them to be an extension of the character, directly tied to their weapons and armor. I would expect something more along the lines of Channeling Magic, which was generally more straight-forward. Weapon spells are also highly, highly likely.

And there is still a large amount of mundane martial skills at work here. Rytlock had a large number of Warrior-like animations, which is only sensible, given that the profession stemmed from a Warrior.

I bet will be more like the dervish but instead of the Avatar of Gods he can claim power of ancient Ghosts, as good heroes or mobs bosses.

Now if it is similar to the dervish I’d be beyond happy. Loved my deverish and hope they can make it as enjoyable