WotC Dungeons & Dragons Online: Age of Alchemist. (New class!?)

[LuisCarlos17f]

https://www.ddo.com/en/update-45-release-notes

The videogame D&D online presents in the update 45 a new class, based in the prestige class "Savant Alchemist" from "Magic of Eberron".

We know alchemist is only an artificer subclass, but now I am wondering about any possible connection with the new core class from the Pathfinder second edition. Maybe I am wrong, because in the MMO the favored soul is a class but in the 5th Ed it is only a sorcerer subclass.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

Why would it connect to Pathfinder, they are completely different systems with different teams and companies behind them?

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

But sooner or later somebody will say he would like a D&D version of some Pathfinder class. Or at least published by a 3PP because they are open licence, for example the gunslinger,investigator and the witch by Mage Hand Press.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

But sooner or later somebody will say he would like a D&D version of some Pathfinder class. Or at least published by a 3PP because they are open licence, for example the gunslinger,investigator and the witch by Mage Hand Press.

But it already exists, it's a subclass for artificer.

I really wouldn't take D&D Online seriously as impacting what the rules designers start developing.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

Yes, I have just said I may be wrong, but if we have got a open mind we should allow the idea of a future "brother" for the artificer class, for example a half-caster inspired in the Witcher. What subclasses for the alchemist? Easy, you can see the archetypes in the SRD of pathfinder.

 

[Rikka66]

Between the alchemist subclass, the masterclass codex alchemist, and I'm sure other third-party and homebrew options, I don't think they'll make an alchemist class.

 

[Tales and Chronicles]

Wasnt DDO based on 4e anyway?

The Alchemist Savant was a Paragon Path for arcane classes with the Alchemist feat (or the mark of making, cant remember).

 

[Rikka66]

Wasnt DDO based on 4e anyway?

The Alchemist Savant was a Paragon Path for arcane classes with the Alchemist feat (or the mark of making, cant remember).

3.5

DDO already had the artificer as a class, interestingly enough.

 

[Tales and Chronicles]

ahhhh...then I really dont see how the implementation of a new class in the MMO version of a past edition could influence further releases in 5e, especially when we've just add the artificer.

Maybe we will one day have a rogue specialized in traps and bombs and another in medicine and alchemy.

 

[GlassJaw]

DDO has been out for almost a decade now. It started out based on 3ed but evolved into its own ruleset and pretty much operates independent of anything happening in the larger and current D&D landscape.

Graphic are dated but it's a great game though. I played for a LONG time. Some of the best co-op I've experienced in an MMO and tons of character customization.