Non-Core Class Survivor: Round 4

[Glyfair]

The Wilder, Soulborn and Swashbuckler left us last round. There were 5 classes clearly grouped behind them. Will the ones leaving be from these 5? Only time will tell.

Vote for the class you want to leave the list. The 3 classes getting the most votes will be removed from the list for the next round (and this is the last round that 3 classes will be voted off, barring some really tight finishes).

 

[Old Gumphrey]

How bout a poll to go with that?

 

[Glyfair]

Patience. Even using cut n' paste entering 24 classes takes time (which is part of the reason I've been cutting them off 3 at a time).

 

[Beckett]

Casting the first vote on a poll like this looks pretty neat. Everything at 0, except the Hexblade, getting 100% of the vote. I was very disapointed with that class; CW Samurai I barely glanced at, but the Hexblade made me think it could be a good fighter/mage, and it failed.

 

[Glyfair]

Everything at 0, except the Hexblade, getting 100% of the vote. I was very disapointed with that class; CW Samurai I barely glanced at, but the Hexblade made me think it could be a good fighter/mage, and it failed.

I had a player in my game who was playing a Hexblade/Marshal. He was very, very disappointed in the character (of course, he's a player that changes his mind for a character 5 or 6 times even before the campaign starts).

I do really like the alternate class ability from the PHB II for it, though. I don't know if it's enough to save it.

 

[Seeker95]

I wish we could vote for more than one at a time. I want to see both Magic of Incarnum classes go at once. And at this pace, I have to wait for far too many rounds to get rid of the Incarnum-ites and Psionicals.

 

[drothgery]

Hexblade, inferior in all ways to the Duskblade (and other gish classes like Bard, Cleric*, Paladin, Psychic Warrior, and Ranger).

* not really fair, as Cleric is the only gish class that gets full casting

 

[Glyfair]

* not really fair, as Cleric is the only gish class that gets full casting

I keep seeing this term recently. Clearly it means a fighting/spell casting class, but where does it come from?

 

[Mercule]

Again: Die, Dragon Shaman. Die!

Question: What does "gish class" mean?

 

[demiurge1138]

A gish is a githyanki fighter-mage. The term's been around since the AD&D Fiend Folio, but in recent years it's been adopted for any fighter-spellcaster combo. First place I saw it used in this context was on WoTC's character optimization boards - a terrifying place, those can be.

Anyway... I'm surprised the dragon shaman's made it so far. It's bland. Off it goes.

Demiurge out.