Best Base class from WotC books outside the Core 11?

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Of the ones listed...Marshall, with Warlock as a very close second.

Though one of my favorite non-Core base classes is the OA Sohei, but that isn't listed so I didn't get to pick it.

And I don't think the Spirit Shaman is really all that much like the OA Shaman...

 

[Desdichado]

There's no way to get an accurate result now. All you're going to get is "What do people like best out of the random sampling I chose?"

To true. Although my answer's pretty much the same anyway; I think the Scout is my favorite of the "non-core" base classes, at least by WotC. Although it does face some pretty stiff competition from the Midnight Wildlander that fills the same role. The swashbuckler has the concept I like the best, but I'm not terribly convinced on the implementation of it; it seems a bit too bland for a swashbuckler somehow.

If the poll were more complete, the soulknife would get honorable mention too. Although I do think it's a tad weak; I'd give it fighter BAB progression instead of cleric BAB progression and call it good.

 

[JRRNeiklot]

I like the hexblade, though I find it rather weak.

 

[the Jester]

Scout, with warlock a close second.

 

[FireLance]

I voted Scout, but I would have picked Warlock if it had a different flavor, in particular, the alignment restrictions. I might just change that in a future Eberron campaign, so that I can have Lawful Good Warlocks from Thrane channeling the power of the Silver Flame through their eldritch blasts.

 

[Gez]

Updated poll. Though it needs a little modfixin, as the Hexblade mention was mysteriously remplaced by another Favored Soul.

 

[Mixmaster]

I'd go:

Warmage, Artificer, Scout

 

[Li Shenron]

Funny, I thought Scout and Warlock were not original at all (how are they different in concept from a Ranger and a Sorcerer?) but they are largely dominating this poll...

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Funny, I thought Scout and Warlock were not original at all (how are they different in concept from a Ranger and a Sorcerer?) but they are largely dominating this poll...

Mechanically, a warlock is unique in WotC-published D&D rules. It fills the same niche as a sorcerer, that's all.

 

[Li Shenron]

Mechanically, a warlock is unique in WotC-published D&D rules. It fills the same niche as a sorcerer, that's all.

Mechanically-wise I have nothing to criticize about it, but concept-wise I have a hard time to see it any original or flavorful...

It's also amazing how the gaming community which often says booo to the Sorcerer - the flavorless "one-trick-pony" - also raises kudos to a class which has the same flavor and it is even more that one-trick type