Rename the assassin.

I personally think that the profession assassin should really be named: Ninja, my resons for this are:
1) They really don't assasinate anyone; it's more genaral combat.
2) they wear ninja suits (not really a reson but oh well)
3) and they seem to do backflips and such all the time!
4) finally if cantha is ment to be based on somwhere in asia (orient) then the ninja is really more suitable.

...no?

*beats head on the desk*

no

Just...no

1) A good assassin can kill a target quickly and shadow step out of the way to recharge for their next spike.

2) Um...Ninjas wore kimonos.

3) So do people who do gymnastics. And people who do extreme sports like skating, skateboarding, snowboarding etc.

so all those people who can backflip are ninjas now?

4) This is the only one of your points that even makes some sense, but even then its only a semantic arguement and boils down to personal taste and opinion.

Since I am capable of an insanely horizontal cartwheel, I hereby declare myself:

Caleb, Ninja of GWGuru!

/and please don't name the assasins ninjas!

Hey maybe we can start the professions - ringmaster and circus freak. (trapiesests to follow)

Can't we let all these ninja and samurai stuff die down... every day I check on the forum, there at least one new thread about one of the above.
For the record, ninja is not the only assassin type found in Asia.

Not gonna happen.

Why? Because we will see a the Ninja profession in chapter 4 when we return to the foggy part of canthan.

Um, no.

Ninja < Assasin

If Anet actually ever do intent to revisit Canthan with a new class, I would much rather have some sort of unarmed martial artist than ninja. Afterall, as much as i don't like to say it, assassins is pretty much a ninja.

If they are bad, yeah its more general combat. If they're good, they DO assassinate people.

Are you talking about hollywood ninja's? You do know those arent an accurate reflection of what Ninja's really were, right?

Again it sounds like you're talking about hollywood ninjas.

True.

Overall I think they should be called ninja's because ArenaNet DID design them around the stereotype of the ninja that hollywood portraits. But Assassin, I guess, is still appropriate because of their function in the game. (umm .. no not to tank - to kill with deadly precision and speed while avoiding harm)

Slams my head in between 2 fat cows udders, NO.

Good Idea! Exelent points!

/end sarcasam

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I don't think the Assassin is Ninja enough. The number one feature of a Ninja is espionage, not assassinating, using a certain weapon, or teleporting.

Without any hiding and serious evasive skills, Assassin is a long way from being a Ninja, and beyond that, Ninjas fighting style was a natural combination of the most effective combat techniques, also incorperating normal tools and objects around them as effective weapons of low profile.

Assassins can easily masquerade as Ninjas if they wish, they don't need to be named Assassin, and the name certainly isn't going to be changed now. As for Samurai, whatever, this has nothing to do with it.

They could... but I still don't see much reason why.

Will people enjoy the game more with this change?

Rename Assassins to Benders, all they're good for is doing the robot.

No for all the reasons above and the name "ninja" is too cliche for my likes, especially seeing it everywhere in place of "assassin". That would just piss me off more than assassins do as they are at the moment, I hated mine...

How bout we name them what they are famous for? Leeeeeeroy!
/end bad joke

Umm, please Anet. Never make us return to Cantha. If you do, remove gates, blocked content and add some actual playable content with rewards equal to the time and effort it took to play it... that's another post though... ooops

"Minja" is more appropriate as all they're REALLY good for is making into Minions

If they did rename them ninja's, there would be a massive out cry for the pirtae profession. That'd be cool. Maybe in their next game, after nightfall, we'll have something like the Kurzicks and Luxons, but with Pirates and Ninjas. Pirates would own.

pirates will not own. a druid will!!!!