Why only two "heavy" classes?Follow

idk, i feel that 2 heavy classes out of 8 is fine. 2 heavy, 3 medium, 3 light.

get a bunch of nub tanks running around and we are all screwed >_<

Consider yourself lucky. When GW first came out, there was only one heavy class for the first 2 years.

But then again in GW the normal trinity is a little screwed up.

Make that a lot screwed up.

The warriors, who are the well armored guys, are actually the game's best DPS class overall (though there are people who argue it's sassis) and they also tend to be what high end PvP tends to revolve around... whereas in normal games it's the tanks who are the least important in PvP. With the right skill sets, in PvE the nuking class is the best healers and the healing class is the best tanks (or at least was for a long time). GW's skill set ups made for a lot of weird arrangements (like a tank who fights without any armor on at all) which for better or worse, won't be in GW2.

Anyways I think why two heavies is because one will be a combat first class, the warrior, and the other will be a support first class, the other guy.

This won't be happening in Guild Wars 2. For one, how do you define an ally when you have soft grouping? Even if you define it as someone in the area, in encounters like the shatterer that could be 40 people. Fitting a way to select a target on screen with that many people as allies is a great challenge for any UI designer. Support is far far more likely to be based on area of effect or ground targeted.

I was thinking it'd be more chants/shouts along the lines of paragons... but maybe a standard or two as well.

In response to the original post. I think that GW is making each choice more viable for everything. Their warrior and a knight(ish) class. The warrior can use almost any weapon available. Each weapon changes the warriors abilities dramatically. He can shout which can presumably buff and maybe debuff. This can cover most play styles with heavy armor.

The other class is just gravy in my opinion. It isn't needed to satisfy the people who like to play with heavy armor. But it certainly is nice.

Edited, Nov 22nd 2010 1:37pm by bubles

Well how many variations of the "heavy armor guy" are there, really?

Medium armor is very versatile - it's right in the middle. You can think of swashbucklers, asassins, rangers, druids, and shamans right off the bat.

And magic users? It's magic for Pete's sake, you can make up anything.

As for Heavy armor, I think Dartakc is right on the money when he said there isn't much more than the warrior and the paladin.

Really, though, I think it comes done to what's been mentioned before -- the GW franchise just doesn't have a lot of heavies about.

That said, it's also possible they may have an idea for a third heavy class, but it is too far behind in development to be released with vanilla GW2. Given all the changes that Arenanet is making to the traditional MMO structure, it wouldn't be too surprising if they came up with a new take on the heavy armor user. And it also wouldn't be too surprising that they'd want to wait before releasing it in an already unconventional MMO.



Edited, Nov 24th 2010 2:03am by apostolicalcoholic