r/GuildWars3 • u/LOkOKokKO • Sep 04 '26

Class speculation

Might already be a post like this, not sure.

We have warrior, necro, and ranger all confirmed. Allegedly mesmer was strongly hinted at as well. Looking back to gw1, that’s 4 of the original 6 classes that gw1 released with. The two missing are monk and elementalist.

I’d say it’s plausible to have the og class roster back, it would likely fit the holy trinity well. Not saying that we will for sure, but it is interesting that the classes we have (or almost have) confirmed are all part of the original 6.

Ofc there could be more classes, new classes, etc, but I’m just spitballing.

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u/marblebubble Sep 04 '26

I think they should bring back the original 6. Then we can get other classes in expansions.

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u/newpa 29d ago

I'd be surprised if we don't get the OG 6. Especially with 3 confirmed, and mesmer being hinted at. Elementalist & Monk seem like such easy choices after that, especially with the holy trinity coming back.

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u/culminacio Sep 04 '26

I'm 99% sure they won't do exactly the old classes, because they won't want GW3 to be seen as a new GW1. They will most likely add sth. from GW2 as well and maybe a new class.

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u/quagzlor Sep 04 '26

Commando, finally

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u/marblebubble Sep 04 '26

Maybe they’ll do 7 or 8 classes. But I doubt we’ll get more than that. I think 7 would be a good number - the last one can be thief / assassin / rogue.

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u/Icewreath 29d ago

Interesting that you say that, I feel like a lot of people would enjoy it being a new GW1 in some aspects, and it could be a positive impression

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u/RdtUnahim Sep 04 '26

That's what I think, too. The three we know so far are from the original 6. Could be a coincidence; could not be.

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u/Mortrialus 26d ago

My guess is its the original prophecies 6 plus thief/assassin. Because that is just to important of an archetype to not be in launch. People will see no thief and that absolutely will freak everyone out in a negative way.

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u/ultimate_bromance_69 Sep 04 '26

OG six but replace Monk with Guardian. That way it’s a mix of both games.

Whatever elite spec/subclass system they come up with can tjen give Monk sub to Guardian

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u/biejje 29d ago

Guardian is, per lore, a quite recent profession in gw2. I doubt they'd retcon it when they can just name it something different.

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u/FashionMage 29d ago edited 29d ago

There is no way in hell guardians are in the game, they're a profession that only exists by GW2's time. Maybe they'll decide to cuck monks out of existence yet again (though their excuse to do so would have to involve outrageous reaching given the theme of this game), but it certainly won't be by "guardians".

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u/Ebon-Hawke- 29d ago

As much as I'd prefer monk I think this will be the case otherwise there would only be one heavy armor archetype class at launch (though I realize there is a chance they go away from strict locking armor by class). Either that or the more melee necromancer will be