Guild Wars: Nightfall - The New Classes

In just under a week Guild Wars verterans will get their first taste of the upcoming installment in the franchise, Guild Wars: Nightfall, in an open beta-weekend event. While you count the days, read up on the following details about the new classes being introduced to further build your already growing anticipation.

The Paragon
The Paragon is a brilliant battle commander who wields a shield and throwing spears, using a variety of verbal chants and shouts to provide temporary empowering boosts to themselves and their allies. Through their insight, Paragons can also help allied resist hexes and conditions. The Paragon's armour is ornate and usually made of a misture of metal and leather inset with ivory, mother of pearl, and other semiprecious materials. Paragon armour has an angelic motif, usually the form of wings engraved onto the metal plates.

Paragons are the guardian angels of the Elonian people, chosen by the gods to serve as emissaries among the mortals and serve as that land's champions against malevolent threats. Each has experienced an event in their early lives where they should have died, but did not. They ascribe their survival to the gods themselves, and dedicate their lives as the gods' servants in the mortal world.

The Dervish
Dervishes are scythe-wielding holy warriors who can attack multiple enemies at once. Because the broad sweep of a swinging scythe can strike multiple foes at once, the Dervish seeks the very heart of a battle. The Dervish will calmly and intently case spells on themselves even while surrounded by foes, and suddenly unleash a flurry of devastating, whirling, scythe attacks. The Dervish has a variety of combat-related enchantments and inherent healing and protection abilities. Their greatest power, however, is that of transformation. The Dervish, when roused, may channel divine powers and their form to a temporarily become the physical embodiment of a god.

The Dervish's attire is a testament to the dual nature of the Dervish as both a priest and a warrior. They wear a robe to show their faith in the divine, bracers to demonstrate their prowess in combat, and a good to mark their humility before the gods. This garb provides limited armour, but the Dervish is shielded in battle by their agility and by the enchantments the cast upon themselves. These enchantments makes them resistant to injury, turn aside the attacks of their foes, and lend elemental power to their attacks.