First all-new profession detailed.
ArenaNet has revealed the fifth of eight professions you can pick to play as in new MMO Guild Wars 2: the Guardian.
In short, the Guardian evolves the Monk from Guild Wars 1. The sequel does away with dedicated healing, remember, but as lead designer Eric Flannum and cohort Jon Peters told Eurogamer – there’s still demand for that role.
“In Guild Wars 1 we had a Monk. We know people like to play that profession, we also know we’re building a dedicated healer in our game, so we couldn’t bring in a character called a Monk into our game and say oh we just totally annulled his healing and took away his connection to the gods,” explained Peters.