GuildWiki:Role guide project

Overview
'''Note: This list is a work in progress primarily designed to give users a sense of the implementation as well as to get a general sense for the policy. Feel free to propose new archetypes on the discussion page.'''

The purpose of this project is to get a general sense of what the common archetypes are. This does NOT preclude someone from making a guide about a different role, it is merely a starting point that will hopefully get expanded.

Here is(/will be) a list of all the roles we can think of for each profession. The goals of this list are:
 * to see how balanced the list is (which may not matter)
 * to work out how to define what is a role and what is a build variant
 * to figure out just how many roles we're talking about (5 is a lot different than 15, if they're all listed in one page)

Farming

 * 1) 55hp
 * 2) Shadow Form
 * 3) Trappers

Tank

 * 1) Armor (Dolyak, Mantra, etc)
 * 2) Stance (Ranger/Glad's Defense)
 * 3) Enchantment (Shadow Form, Dervish, Sliver/Stoneflesh)

Pure DPS

 * 1) Barrage Pet
 * 2) Frontline
 * 3) Nukers
 * 4) Touch Ranger

Support/Utility

 * 1) Hex Pressure
 * 2) Paragon Support
 * 3) Spirit Spammer
 * 4) Minion Master (Necro/Rit)

Shutdown

 * 1) Cast Time/Daze
 * 2) Disable
 * 3) Interrupts
 * 4) Knockdowns

Backline

 * Heal
 * Prot

Frontline DPS
(link to Melee Split page)
 * 1) Linebacker
 * 2) Pure DPS
 * 3) Thumper/Expertise Rangers
 * 4) Para Thumper
 * 5) Shadow Spiker(BoA, SP Wars, Shadow Walk/Deaths's Charge Derv/BB)
 * 6) DPS Assassin (Moebius)

Midline Pressure/Utility/Support

 * 1) Utility/Interrupter (BA, Cripshot, BHA)
 * 2) Trapper/Spirit (NR/Tranq Oath Trapper)
 * 3) Offensive Caster Utility (Emos, Mind Blast, Ice Shackles/Trident, redirected to runner, example: Emo)
 * 4) Utility Rangers (BA, Crip, BHA, redirected from Ranger Split)
 * 5) DPS/Offensive Pressure (Cruel Spear, Crippling Anthem)
 * 6) Defensive Support Paragon (Angelic Bond)
 * 7) Hex Pressure (Migraine, Reaper's Mark)
 * 8) Eurospike/Utility (MoR, Expel, etc)
 * 9) Crippling Anguish/Split
 * 10) Battery (BiP)
 * 11) Smiter (AoE, MoM)
 * 12) Binding Ritual Spammer

Runner/Splitter

 * 1) Monk/Defensive Runner (ZB LoD WoR)
 * 2) Melee Split (see also frontline DPS)
 * 3) Ranger Split (Redirect utility)
 * 4) Offensive Caster Split (redirect from utility)
 * 5) Minion Master

Backline

 * 1) Infusers: Healer's Boon/WoH/LoD
 * 2) Divine Prot (subsection boon prot for historic reference)
 * 3) Soul Reap (N/Rt or N/Mo)

Others (Gimmicks!)

 * 1) Splinter Barrage
 * 2) IWAY (link to frontline for warriors + utility for orders)

Spike

 * 1) Ele Spike (Invoke/Vapor/Obs Flame)
 * 2) Ranger Spike (Kindle/Conjure, Spirit's Strength