I for one am sick of paying for the same stuff every book. I don't mind when it's for classes that actually need it, but when it comes to the mage and fighter I've really seen enough of them. If they do another HoS with nothing but mage builds, maybe a hexblade (honestly, we don't need more Fey warlocks either) and similar I won't be allowing the book in my games. That will be the end of future PC options from that point being allowed in my campaigns as well - I'll simply give up on them once and for all. Gloomwrought convinced me that the DM supplements have merit and are worth persisting with however - so assuming they do a Feywild equivalent that's a must buy.
I am fully expecting to be disappointed by the book because I know it will probably have more bloody mage builds. It will probably resell me ANOTHER fey-something warlock or hexblade. It might - if I'm lucky - have the other two sentinel druid seasons (which I would love to see) but might not. It might have some new class that ends up being a railroad instead of a genuine new class. That will probably be it with the same things that desperately need support and have been ignored for years, continuing to be ignored.
In the end I will be pleasantly surprised if it isn't what I am expecting. But it will probably be exactly what I'm expecting and be extremely disappointing for that.
Yeah, I just don't see it that way. I mean why would you NOT put Feywild themed things like a feypact hexblade into a book themed around the feywild, wouldn't that be kind of dumb? I mean what the heck would you put in this book?
Options are needed where they are needed. OK, wizard can live without a heap of new options, but it isn't about 'wizard' it is about "can I build this character concept?" If the answer is 'no' (and that seems to be the case for building a transmuter) then there's an opportunity for the rules to be extended to provide something new and useful. I don't care if wizard has 22 other builds, it is missing one that I want (well hypothetically at least).
I agree, the other two seasons of Sentinel would be great. I'd give that higher want factor for me. Feypack hexblade (and Binder too if they can really make it unique enough) sound like cool options. I'd hope to see some sort of swordmage support too, the Assault and Ensnaring builds really could use some help (though I can't really see exactly how to help AoE swordmages, the class feature itself is the problem there).
And honestly, beyond that I'm not real sure what exactly you WOULD put in that book class-wise. Some scout options maybe? I suppose Shaman stuff maybe. My feeling is though they aren't going to do anything more with the other primal classes. Maybe there will be a barbarian build for the fighter, though it doesn't seem particularly 'fey' to me. Maybe a refresh of some of the fey related races could happen, or a new race or race option like 'feytouched' or something. I just suspect there really isn't enough other compelling stuff without any arcane options.
I mean maybe other people have more ideas, but I'm really just not finding much reason for a wizard option or two NOT to be in there, plus warlock stuff.
