Race Rules (at long last)

You don't have to change anything. Your starting profession choice will be grandfathered, so nothing needs to change in that regard. If it's now a penalized profession, you'll need to pay the 5 build penalty, but you'll be able to keep it as your first profession.

In any event, the promo skill is not dependent on your starting class any more, so as long as you had the pre-reqs you'd be fine. And if you didn't, we'd let you keep the skill on the condition that you'd work toward the pre-reqs with your next-earned build.

That last comment seems to indicate that there will be new profession rules shortly.  Is that the case?

There aren't any new profession rules in the works.  What Matt meant by "Your promo skill isn't dependent on your starting class" was that you could dual class into a secondary profession, spend 120 build, and learn the promo off of THAT list.

Make sense?

As Aaron said, the general answer is no, there will not be major profession changes forthcoming. We have a handful of small tweaks, and there has been discussion of adding a new profession, but there won't be anything akin to a massive "Profession Rules" document like we just did with races. Professions have undergone numerous changes over the past couple of years, and we have them where we like them, for the most part.

Professions have undergone numerous changes over the past couple of years, and we have them where we like them, for the most part.

All you need to do is get rid of Psions and then you'll be totally happy, right? 

As for Promo and 120 build... the 120 build is the total overall amount of build your character has, not that amount in just 1 profession, correct?

To get a promotional skill you must fit either one of two categories.

100 build spent without dual classing (does not count higher lists).
120 build spent on said class.

Simple examples
10th level mage (can get promo skill)
10th level mage with valence higher list (can get promo skill)
10th level mage/swash combination (cannot get promo skill for either lists)
25 level mage/swash combo with 200 build spent on the mage list (can get mage promo)
25 level mage swash combo with 120 build spent on mage and 130 spent on swash (can get either promo).

and so on.