Guild Wars 2

I’ve been away from GW2 for some time and was wondering for those who are active on the forums. Has there been any mention of new classes ever being released? I figured since the game released 8/28/2012 there might be at least some rumors or devs saying its being worked on

Not a single word.

They didn’t plan on making new classes, so there’s obviously no news about it. If anything, we’d get new races, and we still don’t have news on that. Only new class we’d get is a third heavy related to dark paladins or something

I doubt the will add new classes. From the Devs own admission (and the loud complaints from many players), GW1 started down a “difficult” path when new classes started popping up every year or so. I think they learned a lesson and that is why they started with so many classes up front.

I wouldn’t hold my breath for new races either. The graphics work for just the character alone to add an entire new race would be MASSIVE. New weapons (and skills to go with them for each class) will be much more likely (they have mentioned that possibility).

Races will likely be added at some point. Classes are less likely. But skills and even new weapons for existing classes seem likely down the road (maybe not that far off if you don’t mind me making unsupported theories).

From an interview that Colin Johanson gave in August:

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Q: What are your plans for future professions/races.
A: Races, no promises of which race to do first. New profession is a lot harder, a lot of the core archtype is covered. We might do additional weapons/skills for current professions before putting in new professions. We have 8 now so if we want to do a new profession is it is probably a 3rd heavy armor to balance it out. New profession is probably the furthest thing out.
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This has been more then 6 months ago and was a year after launch. so far, we didn’t get new weapons and we didn’t get a new race. Considering that those would come first, means that new classes are very very far away.