Secondary profession choice for Pinion

About this game

Developer: ArenaNet · Publisher: NCSOFT · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Stylized 3D · Screen type: Character / Unit Detail

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What to study

Afterlife's headline system, skill drafting, starts here rather than in combat: before a run, the game asks you to pick a secondary profession from the full roster, Assassin through Ranger, each row carrying only an icon and a name. That restraint is the design lesson — the choice is a build decision, not a stat comparison, so the panel stays a clean list with a scrollbar instead of a spreadsheet, while the persistent HUD underneath (target bar, compass, HP and energy skill bar) keeps the character you are building visible behind the decision. It is the classic Guild Wars dual-profession idea reframed as a run starter: the panel you see is the moment a run's possibility space gets set. Frame at about 35s in the Afterlife Announce Trailer (Steam). Pre-release trailer footage; the DLC launches January 13, 2027.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

modal-panel action-list

Components

Parts on screen.

Window List Choices Vitals bar Action bar Compass Nameplate

Screen inventory

• centered Pinion panel headed 'Choose a secondary profession to begin' with a close X and scrollbar
• profession rows with icons: Assassin, Mesmer, Necromancer, Elementalist, Monk, Warrior, Ranger
• top target bar: Lvl 20 Pinion, red health bar
• circular compass dial at top right with a 6:57 pm clock
• bottom skill bar: HP 510, energy 20, numbered skill slots with icons
• bottom-left Menu button, party members standing behind the panel in a circular plaza

Top 3 colors

#3c3a49 25%#3b3037 20%#1b181a 20%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© ArenaNet / NCSOFT, Guild Wars Reforged screenshot: Guild Wars® Afterlife™ Announce Trailer (Steam, DLC app 5149500), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by NCSOFT.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-11-04. verified 2026-11-04: frame inspected visually at full resolution; 'Choose a secondary profession to begin', all seven profession rows, Lvl 20 Pinion target bar, compass, HP 510 / energy 20 skill bar all legible; manually extracted because the scene-change pass skipped this segment (same failure mode as the ETS2 Coaches dense scan)

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