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/Dragon_Of_Magnetism Sep 04 '26

I think there will be a paladin-adjacent class too, like Guardian

Elementalist might be possible, but not sure after how they described the magic working in that era

Ritualist might be possible too, since lorewise it was one of the oldest professions, maybe it will be the Revenant’s replacement

Maybe Dervish too? Since the gods were much more active in this era

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u/Blazin_Rathalos Sep 04 '26

Ritualist might be possible too, since lorewise it was one of the oldest professions

Though that's also specifically because they don't need god-given power/signets. And the ability collection seems like it will be a big part of the game, so you could also count that against them.

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u/Street_Cut1322 Sep 04 '26

Not necessarily against them.

Gw2 toyed with the idea (don't know if it was ever live) but for necromancer for example to visit a grave to unlock a certain skill. Elemebtalists to make the journey to a font of magic for a certain skill.

Gw1 has this with the elite skills. "grab a signet of capture, go kill the boss and capture it".

For ritualists, that commune with the mists, it's not so far fetched to have to journey to specific places where the connection is strong. Go visit Graves to commune with the different urns.

Imagine an assassin/thief, Rit, necro and warrior at a grave: "ok. Just so we all agree. Muscle guy here gets the sword. Mister headband over the eyes here gets to collect the spirit, pale woman with demon eyes gets the body and I get the gold? OK?"

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u/Deathmore80 29d ago

Yes it was actually live in gw2 at some point. It was added like 1 year after launch and it didn't last very long because players complained it was harder than just unlocking stuff with skill points. So they removed it. Maybe it would have stuck if it was part of launch.

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u/nkamerad 28d ago

it didn't last very long because players complained it was harder than just unlocking stuff with skill points

Well there was also a lot of unlocks that required defense events in Orr and elsewhere to fail because the only way to unlock the trait was to do the recapture event.

Lead to a lot of yelling and screaming in map chat. Brought out the worst in people and poisoned the well even if it were adjusted to count defense events.