Guild Wars - Professions

As of right now, Guild Wars has six main professions. Mesmer, necromancer, warrior, monk, elementalist and a ranger. Even though there are only six main types, you must take on a secondary profession also. So you will always have more than just a warrior, or monk. Most popular combinations are: Warrior monk, always known as tanks, ranger monk, elementalist mesmer and necromancer warrior. When starting a new class, people will often be stumped on the weird combination that they will enjoy the most and be useful to them.

Near the beginning of Guild Wars there is an NPC trainer for each different profession to teach you the ways of that certain class, for instance when joining the necromancer class, you must go underground into the catacombs and kill a nightmare beast to prove your on deaths side. Most of these quests are simple, but seem to get increasingly harder as you progress throughout the game.

Since you have a secondary profession you can be more useful in a lot of situations you will run in to. For example you could become an Elementalist/monk and still be able to deal mounds of damage and throw a few heals out to your teammates, these being a damage dealer and healer.

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