Tony Vargas
Legend
All the more reason to avoid that appearance in the way you related his observations.Ok, I'm going to defend my friend here because he was a bigger 4e fan than I was for a time. I don't know exactly what abilities or spells he was speaking of, nor why he viewed them as "4e-ish" so I cannot elaborate further on this. I DO know he loved the 4e Swordmage though, and it was his favorite 4e class, so he did have an emotional connection that was disappointed with THAT version of the class. He wasn't speaking from the "H8rs gonna H8" club.
Nod. I tend to see it more as a 5e Warlord design can't afford to be limited to what it did in 4e, since 5e has eschewed formal 'roles,' and 5e classes tend to have much greater flexibility & variety of contributions, as well as far more resources. Between that and wide-open design space there's room for everything the Warlord did, and more, once it's adapted to 5e. Wolf Pack Tactics is a good example. In 5e some monsters have a similar-themed ability that grants Advantage very easily, for instance. And, similarly, if you look at what could be accomplished on a more abstract level with WPT, you could home in on setting up Advantage and allowing allies to Disengage as it's primary functions. Quite workable and potentially pretty cool.It's not a betrayal to have (hypothetically) a warlord healing ability that doesn't resemble Inspiring Word, or that a warlord isn't a warlord without Wolf Pack Tactics as an ability. The class cannot be beholden to everything the 4e version did, doing it like the 4e version does it.