D&D 4E Directly from a quote- 8 classes in 4e! (well, now subject to much debate)

[AdmundfortGeographer]

My guesses:
Fighter (kills knight & warblade, takes his stuff)
Cleric (kills healer, THS)
Wizard
Rogue (kills swashbuckler & spellthief, THS)
Sorcerer (kills warlock, THS)
Ranger (kills scout, THS)
Barbarian
Warlord (kills bard and marshal, THS)
Shaman (kills dragon shaman and druid, THS)

I like these guesses very much.

 

[thundershot]

I'd love to see the 3.5 Shaman from ... one of the Complete books, to make a return. It was great and unique class with lots of flavor.



Chris

 

[Lonely Tylenol]

Ranger (kills scout, THS)

This is confirmed. The scout is dead, long live the ranger.

Warlord (kills bard and marshal, THS)

Judging from some of those GenCon videos, I'd give it an even 50/50 chance that there is no warlord.

 

[Andor]

I'd much rather lose the Barbarian than the Druid. The Druid has been it's own distinct class since 1st ed, which it's own approach to spell casting, and integral shape-shifting.

Barbarian? It's a tech level not a class.

But for my own guesses from the scanty data we have so far...

Fighter: The supreme tank, with weapon related special abilities that will tend to counter his opponents actions. (Tripping, sundering, creating weak spots)

Barbarian: The melee damage machine, with special abilities that will tend to make himself tougher, or immune to his opponents abilities. (Poison resist, enchantment resist, flanking immunity)

Cleric: The God of healing, with holy powers. (Turn undead, domain powers, protection spells)

Druid: Master of shapeshifting, strong healer. (Wildshape, Wild Feat-like abilities, nature spells)

Rogue: Backstabbing skill monkey.

Ranger: High damage skirmisher. Mobility is key.

Wizard: Magic damage and controller. (Summons, Fireballs, Terrain shaping spells, Utility spells)

Sorcerer: Bloodline Mage, Heritage related abilities. (Bloodline related magical talents, some warlockery)

Warlord: Party Leader and Master Seargant (Decent melee, Party boosting auras and special abilities (Like the Marshal eats Bard and Dragon Shaman))

Paladin: Holy Warrior (Decent Melee, Divine Feats, Domain Powers)

 

[see]

Barbarian strikes me as easy to do as a fighter talent tree; why spend a whole class on it?

 

[Tharkun]

Paladin: Holy Warrior (Decent Melee, Divine Feats, Domain Powers)

Could be done with talent tree or feats.

 

[Torm]

Admittedly, it isn't directly backed up by anything, but based on the comment about "Paladins" of Asmodeus, I have a feeling that the answer for the Paladin class is going to be:

Cleric (kills Paladin, THS)

If Paladin is a martial talent tree for Cleric, it would make the comment make sense.

 

[glass]

Since they're using the SAGA style classes with multiple talent trees each,

Forgive the snippage, but has that actually been confirmed?


glass.

 

[Alnag]

Well... let's take two axioms. There are 8 core classes. Those mentioned by James Wyatt are the right ones.

Fighter (might contain say Monk)
Paladin (and also Blackguard)
Cleric (might containt Druid)
Warlord (might contain say Barbarian and/or Bard)
Wizard
Ranger (and also contains Scout)
Rogue (might contain Bard)
and the last one (I suppose Sorcerer + Warlock with whatever name sounds better).

 

[Aloïsius]

Admittedly, it isn't directly backed up by anything, but based on the comment about "Paladins" of Asmodeus, I have a feeling that the answer for the Paladin class is going to be:

Cleric (kills Paladin, THS)

If Paladin is a martial talent tree for Cleric, it would make the comment make sense.

Except that the paladin appears with the fighter on the "defender" role, while the cleric is lumped with the warlord in the "leader" role. Thus, cleric and paladin don't have the same role and are not the same class.
They just fumbled to hide the warlord, who probably should have be a surprise.