Great breakdown of the two-part Guild Wars developer diaries discussing combat and skills in Guild Wars 2. Includes discussion of how players will be able to use their environment in combat, how race and weapon choice will effect skills, and more!

There will be a total of eight professions players can choose from across three types: three scholar (light armor), three adventurer (medium armor) and two soldier (heavy armor). Each profession will have its own unique mechanics to make it distinct from its peers. What players will not find from Guild Wars, however, is the ability to take up a secondary profession.

What players will find instead is an interesting cross-profession skill synergy. This means that players on a team will be able to find and use special combinations of their skills for more powerful attacks. There are hundreds of combinations, but Flannum illustrates two examples between the Elementalist and the Warrior...

jskelt via examiner.com »