May have a beta this year, at least! Which indicates that it'll be early next year, since they want a very short beta, as I recall various Anet people saying a few times.
"The Daemon lied with every breath. It could not help itself but to deceive and dismay, to riddle and ruin. The more we conversed, the closer I drew to one singularly ineluctable fact: I would gain no wisdom here."
Well, here is the mysterious 'eighth' profession (only the seventh to be revealed, but was known as the eighth as it was the one least known about and it was assumed t would be revealed last)
It looked like a Gunner on the silhouette, and lots of people speculated names like Alchemist and the like, but there was definitely a vibe that it would be a technological type. So here he is, the Engineer!
Speculation abut turrets had been rife for a while, making this class in many ways a successor to the Ritualist (in a gameplay rather than lore sense, of course).
This leaves the 'Mesmer' (assumed but not yet certain) as number eight. It seems likely they wanted to reveal it some time back but they won't release an unfinished profession, and it seems the Mesmer is giving them difficulty.
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can be played in a Damage / Support / Battlefield control.
What differs from class to class is the Maximum HP and armor level, and weapons available to use.
Anyway, new interview! I've actually known the info in this one for a while now (I'm part of the site that did the interview) but had to keep quiet on it until we had everything ready to release. Which wasn't easy