Kurotowa
Legend
Well, he said we would see another playtest iteration of the Artificer this year, and hinted that Keith Baker might do something with WotC: not necessarily connected thoughts.
No, but he did say they were specifically looking to Dark Sun for what direction to take the Mystic class, rather than have it be a stand-alone psionics class. So the idea that a new base class would be directly tied to a setting book is on the table. If you combine that with the fact that the original Artificer class was in the Eberron campaign setting book, then you'll see why I give it good odds the two will be again.