whats really going to suck....

this is going to be like the first few months after the realease of factions.
EVERYONE is going to be either paragon or dervish....just like everyone was asassin..no one will ever find a monk or stable group. all the new spears, sythes, swords and everything are going to be RIDICULOUSLY expensive only to have the price drop thousands a month later. and, who can forget, the people that have no guild wars expirience and jump blindly into nightfall.

what im going to do is go straight into the game with my original characters back from prophecies. save up gold. dont buy anything, or very little then about a month later buy things for MUCH cheaper. when the paragon and dervish hype (mostly paragon from what ive been hearing) is over, then ill make one so maybe ill have a chance at finding a group. so anyone think im right on this?

I am doing something similar. I'm starting off with an Elona born Mes, then I'll see what is going on before I decide to use my Tyria Necro, my Cathan Ele or make a Derv or Paragon.

No. I seen more people rushing through the game in the first few weeks on their old Prophecies characters than I did see people creating new characters. Which meant there wasn't a problem with too many Assassins or Ritualists, and the only things I seen go for outrageous prices at the beginning was greens, because they were a little more rare and have since been farmed to death.

I didn't feel that way. To me the excess of assassins and ritualists was only a problem on Shing Jea Island. As soon as you reached Cantha mainland where you met the Tyrians it was pretty well ballanced.

What may also happen is that some will certainly rush the game in hope for finding a spot to chestrun and then establish the Nightfall market with their own prices. Easy way to make money when something is new.

Best is to just wait couple weeks without purchasing anything major.

I'm going to be one of the many many dervishes running around but I'll be henching most things so I'm not worried about parties. In Factions I only needed a team for boreas seabed, raise palace, and imperial sanctum. Not worried about scythe prices as I can just use the prerelease scythe til prices drop.

Yeah, that's what it basically was. Shing Jea was flooded with only A and Rt, but on the mainland there wasn't nearly half as much.

I wont even BUY the game until I read some good reviews (and yes, I will buy it at a real store.....so I can have my instance gratification satisfied, and not get nerfed by pre-order shenanigans again----if I do indeed decide to make a purchase at all).....so I wont worry about what materials are in high demand until probably xmas....

Just like the first couple weeks of factions, the materials for dervish+paragon armor will be sold out at the traders >_<

It wont be as bad with dervishes and paragons since theres the custom hero henchies you can make you'll be able to get monks no matter how many of the new classes there are.

The first thing I have in mind is getting me an A/D, actually
(All those criticals will be nice with a scythe, oh yes )

I made an Assassin right after Factions was released, and ended up just leaving it there in Shing Jea. To this day, there is still an uneven proportion of sins/rits in Shing Jea, leading me to believe that many people did the same. A lot of people make the new classes to mess around with, but dont continue the rest of the game with them.

I honestly haven't decided yet. It would be easy to run my Warrior or Necro thorugh Elona first, and then my Dervish or Paragon second, but part of me wants to make a new class and try it out right away.

I guess it depends on how good the new profs are, and if I enjoy playing them or not.

This kinda thing will happen with every chapter. Meh what can ya do about it. I'll run all my chars at the same time for a lil bit, for variety. Then if I decide to make one of the new chars i'll take it all the way through. As it will be like this.

Paragon LFG
Paragon LFG
Dervish LFG
Paragon LFG im no noob
Dervish LFG
Ranger LFG
Dervish LFG

hhmmm i'll take the 6th guy :P

Personally, I'm going to make my first PvE Monk in Elona, and that char will be going through first.

Later, when the "OMG SCYTHE" has died down, I'll be making a sword-using Dervish and a Hammer-using Paragon... Just to shake things up. =)

I think the biggest problem will be people trying to advertise the customized henchies that they have. How do you even say that? "Paragon w/ War hench(Hammer) & Ele hench(Water/snare)..."

Might be tricky...

Gah, I hadn't even thought of that!

Wait until you have 3 heroes... we'll be reading whole novels of peeps LFG.

Guild Wars really needs another way to form parties...

Im thinking a party of 4-6 Paragons / Dervish will not be as bad as 4-6 Assassin /Ritualists. So unlike what happened on Shing Jea I think this will work out just fine.

yeah in the beggining assassins were really one trick ponies.(yay now their 2 trick ponies barrage ftw!) dervish and paragons(especially) have many different things that they could do so a group of 4 paragons/dervishes mixed plus a monk or so wouldnt be that bad.

Ummm, well duh... it's a new game, with new professions. Obviously lots of people are going to want to try out the new classes, so get over it!

*IF* I get nightfall I plan on exploring it on my warrior first, then my necro, and only then will I consider making a new character there. I'm kinda excited about the possabilites with W/P and maybe some nice W/D combos, and of course the ARMOR!

My warrior is my pride and joy, and he'll be the first to tote any new armor.

But yea I'm not really that interested in making a P/* D/*... just as I haven't bothered making an ass or a rit. More interested in them as 2ndary classes then primaries.