Go back and read the post by Hussar... that's who brought up Artificers, Favored Souls, etc... in a thread about warlords.
EDIT: One thing we do know is that WotC had the information from the DDI CB on players and warlords... having said information they chose not to even include them in the poll.
Yup, and at the time, they mentioned that warlords were one of the most commonly played classes outside of the core 4.
And, let's keep it in context. Your argument boils down to "We don't have a warlord because there isn't enough interest in the warlord". I pointed out that we've gotten updates for a bunch of stuff that there really wasn't much interest for, sometimes twice, like Mass Combat rules for example, and, yes, Favored Souls (which make a come back as a sorcerer subclass instead of an actual class unto itself).
Now, they used the favored soul to answer demands for more sorcerer goodies. Fair enough.
But, they won't even ask on a poll if anyone actually wants a warlord? Why the omission? I asked this one before and I think it got lost in the scrum. Wouldn't asking resolve the issue either way? If they ask what classes we'd like to see updated and include the warlord and it's bottom of the heap, then fair enough. OTOH, if there is significant demand, then WotC could justify updating the warlord.
Only thing is, doing so would be stupid. Far, far too many people are far too willing to open up edition warring salvos if WotC actually goes either direction. They can't win. Heck, you want a perfect example, on the first page of this forum right now is the following thread:
http://www.enworld.org/forum/showth...nmaster-needs-in-5e-and-how-to-make-it-happen
It's four pages in and a rather interesting discussion. Yet, for all of that, there isn't a single comment about how we don't need a Weapon Master, how there is no demand for a weapon master, no polls gauging demand, not a single meta-comment. Not one. I mean, if you, [MENTION=48965]Imaro[/MENTION], are so concerned with WotC expending its limited resources chasing niches, why aren't you starting polls? After all, the whole point of this poll is to shut down conversation about Warlords isn't it?
After all, if you show that there isn't enough demand, you can just tell anyone who starts a conversation, "Don't bother, no one wants it anyway". But, funnily enough, that only seems to apply to warlord conversations. No other class or discussion about adding subclasses or new full classes draws this kind of attention.
It's not exactly hard to guess why.
So, yeah, I can totally see why WotC has zero interest in a Warlord. Has nothing to do with the class itself and everything to do with marketing. Far, far too much butthurt regardless of which way they decide. So, it's better for them that they do nothing.
