a safe profession for nightfall?

by safe i mean one that will be wanted in groups. i don't want to be a monk bc i suck at healing and proting, or a warr bc i heard they won't be that useful anymore. i'm not a big fan of mm's either

Warriors will still be very useful. The only professions that have a hard time getting into PUGs are mesmers and assassins. I'm sure paragons will get in, and dervish will probably have a role too.

Monk.

Healing/Protection monks are always wanted. The amount of invitations will break your party window once you enter the towns which have important quests or mission.

Necromancer != minion master (pick something else if you don't like being MM)

Mesmers are wanted if you know how to play with them and make sure everyone know that too. Just pick what you prefer because playing style is more important than profession in PvE at least.

If you don't want to play Warrior or Monk... why not the 3rd in the holy trinity? Elementalist is a safe bet, most parties are happy to accept them, it's an easy class to pick up and play, and... uh... burning stuff is fun.

i said i DON'T want to be a monk..

How about a ranger? They're desired for their AoE damage through traps/barrage, interruption skills, and solid survivability. Only problem is that there's quite a lot of rangers out there, but the same could probably be said about elementalists, necromancers, and warriors.

well the ones you dont like are the "safe" classes.

Warrior will always be needed.
Monk will always be needed.
MM is cheap/easy so people tend to have those too.

Try a barrage ranger or something

maybe what i heard about warrriors not being useful was meant for pvp..

Dew,
I know that healing is an art on itself.. but it is worthwhile to study it and still be a monk..
But if you insist that you don't like to role a monk, go for Elementalist like STormlord mentioned.. Fire is the most easy form of damage dealing And do you know what kind of sound a corsair makes while burnt with fire? The same sound as everything else

Warriors are useful everywhere. For their base defensive capabilities (high armor with physical damage reduction bonuses) and high damage output. Only very poorly played warriors are useless, but the same could probably be said for any class.
I disagree, that goes to barraging. Hell, the hardest part about barraging is placing your spirit of favorable winds in a safe place, and even that is simple.

Everybody wants elementalist on partys...

Paragon is a good one.

They heal, they attack, they buff. They are pretty much perfect.

Just choose anything else besides mesmers or assassins..
But if you want to be one of those two, go with the mesmer.

Well if you have Factions...

Ritualist is an excellent choice as it is the Jack-of-all-trades class. You can Nuke, heal, summon, and reduce overall party damage etc.

assasins are amazing if u can learn how to play them well but yes i agree i have seen many bad assains which give assains bad name

So hes going to buy factions, play through it as a ritualist, take the rit to elona and play the game through? Madness.

There IS no safe profession. If you can't play them period then no one will want you because you cause the group to fail every time.

I am hoping that because dervishes do a sort of melee/AoE sort of attack, that that means there will be a lot of large groups in nightfall, meaning nukeres will be wanted, as will SS (most likely)

Warriors
SS Necro
MM Necro
Monk healing
Elementalist nuke

Will always get groups fairly easy, especially monks. And for warriors not being useful I dont know where you got that from but warriors will never lose their role unless they create a new class that comes along with 200al and does 300dps.