Now everybody says that the expansion classes will get no love in later expansions, and though this may be true I DOOOO hope that Anet rethinks their decision on this for a few reasons.
1 reason is because of the core classes, core classes have and will get love in every expansion set they have said, now if you think about it, they got a buttload of new skills in factions and the same will be said about nightfall, and from what I hear dervs/paras will have the same number of skills as assass/rits. If you think about that, the core classes will just be brimming with skills while the expansion classes basically get the short end of the stick.
another reason is kinda the same but about common sense, I paid the same price for factions as guild wars, not to mention i got less than half the classes prophecies had, I HOPE THEY GIVE ME SOME NEW CONTENT FOR MY RITS AND ASSASSINS AS THEY WOULD MAKE THE MONEY I PAID WORTH IT. I mean thats just common sense, its two classes they made only for it, you paid the same amount, and yet they wont be updated. thats just stupid.
Now as for what I think should happen...
Ok chapter 3 will be dervishes and paragons.
chapter 4 will probably have 2 new classes also... that way there is 6 core and 6 expansion classes.
now chapter 5.... (october 07) I hope will probably be more like just a massive land expansion like most MMORPG expansions are, no new classes, but will instead just give all the classes some love, not just the core classes, this way at least the expansion classes will be on par in terms of number of skills. Or maybe instead of a class they made a new race....
now before you flame me on the race part, I will note that I remember MANY TIMES seeing that new races will come in future expansions BEFORE prophecies was even released. So its not something that is just a dream.
Now why should Anet do this? money... think about it.... If they make a expansion that gives love to all the classes, that will make people want to buy any expansions that they haven't bought so they can use those classes in the new land.
Oh, and also you can make any class that you already have access to from expansions on that land from level 1... (like you could make a dervish there or a assassin at level 1, or that you couldn't make a ritualist/assassin if you don't have factions also)
Another thing for expansion classes is to put at least a little content for each class into each land.... at least so its worth bringing your paragon to prophecies... and I don't even mean skills, maybe make luxon/kurzick sets for the dervish/paragon that you can get if you go there, or vice versa for Rits/A's in elona and also put some of those type of weapons in other lands. I would love to find a scythe in cantha or kryta or wherever. the only reason we have to do this right now is just to get our exploration titles up... bleh... oh yeah
