should a class be removed?

It's ironic...all the Prophecies professions are "core" but not all of the Prophecies skills are "core." Thus, you could say Prophecies is semi-unique.

That said, I don't think a class should be removed, and I wouldn't mind if there weren't any classes added. The ten we have are just fine. But if Anet decies to add new professions and does them right, I would be happy too.

Remove rits and paragons, then i will be happy.

Personally, what I would have done if I had been in change of creating professions is only make the Warrior, Ranger, Monk and Elementalist as core professions. Let Mesmer and Necromancer be Prophecies-specific... That way all chapters get 4 core professions and 2 special professions. Although it's a bit late for that idea now.

lol at this topic...thats all i got for OP'er

chapters ARE stand-alone people. if you say no, you clearly don't realize that you DO NOT NEED TO BUY THEM ALL to play a single chapter.

You shut up now, you're jeopardizing my beloved mesmer.

http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Channeling_Magic_skills

As for Paragon, you're right about that.

Well there is no way to create an Elonian Assassin or Ritualist but they still have just as many new skills in Nightfall as the Warrior or Monk professions.

If they were to remove the ability to make new characters for 2 of the core professions in Chapter 4, but then still added just as many new skills for those professions it would not make sense.

At first (as in, more than a year ago), I thought Mesmer and Necro could've been considered as Proph-only professions, and that W, R, E and Mo would be the true core professions.
Glad to see mesmer and necro also as core profs, though Proph now lacks the exclusivity of having its own professions, of course.

@Aleks, I'd like to know when ANet said that, it'd be quite interesting to see them work out the current 10 professions before integrating any other within a matter of months.

Yet another discussion about the nature of 'high-end PvP' and such is not to be part of this thread.

I could see Mesmer and Necro being core to prophices. I mean it's not.. nor will it every change.. but with each chapter having new professions I kinda understand what the first poster is getting at.

thank u nataxatu.. that wut i mean.. its just that proph is lacking its own "treasure" to say. as most of u might no other thatn sum skills most "core" skills have duplicates or close to em.

Great idea! Let's remove your wammo!

yeah man, i mean, WTF were they thinking with chapter 1 with those damned monks? There EVERYWHERE!!! wtf?....

seriously, paragons can be good in damage dealing, the thing is that their main energy management requires a lot of allies...

Well the 'core' professions for Factions and Nightfall are used by the main characters in said chapter. E.G you get Nika as 'Sin and Morgan as Para, so what would you hve as the prophecies core profession? Rurik as Wammo?

Nerf Flare Spike

I find it hard to believe that paragons have a fan base, but removing any class is stupid, just dont add any more, unless ofcourse they are as good as the core ones.

I get the feeling anet are running out of ideas with the new classes, i still very rarely play any non-core profession, just because they arent needed, they dont offer anything needed like the core professions do.

What? No? hu? Confused!!

Sorry but this is a bit of a stupid suggestion. Dont add one of the core professions to the 4th chaptor?

That would completely defy the point of a "core" profession. It wouldnt be "core" anymore. Core professions are in EVER compaign.

It would annoy those who took a character of that profession into the campaign, because they wouldnt get any new skills.

It would also annoy those who like that core profession and would want a new one in the 4th chaptor.

There is nothing wrong with the core professions we have. Anet needs to work on adding new profession which are worth it.

I'd settle for Anet 'not' adding anymore new classes for the time being and just focusing on more interesting things for these classes to actually 'do' in the game. Not just the typical pve/pvp content.
Maybe more hybrid's of both types of gameplay like 'My Team v Your Team V The Cpu'. Or maybe 'My Team has to cooperate with Your Team' but then be hostile again, then need to cooperate again (just to mess with ya' ). Perhaps even expanding on the 'hunting' theme. I dunno'...
It seems to me that there are enough class/skill combinations to last the game a good while (especially with new skills added). It's also becoming quite clear how little there is to actually 'do' with all those skills. Anyway, what do I know...

(Could I get the number of that fire-brigade please? )

I always question the mentality of people creating threads such as these..