If you were to add a new arpg class

The new Baldurs Gate 3 trailer just told of a Bards journey type.





& with POE 2 having shapeshifting like LOD Druid. Are their any classes from say, other arpgs you have played? That I may have not tried.

Or a class you wish to add to POE 2? Roadmap or otherwise. Besides healer gems as that has already been debated to death.

I suppose the Occultist is D3's Witchdoctor.

Most likely Bard & Druid gems would be my first request as well.
Or else ascendancy of a red hair dodge roll sneaky female melee Rogue.

P.s. Baldurs Gate has starter hair, face, & hair color optimization I believe. I dunno haven't played that game for ages. Maybe would test 3. Either way ye it has some sort of starter optimization for appearance. So ye my vote goes to that.

Even having played D&D for 30 years I actually prefer Class-less systems.

Esp since original class designs and concepts have been distorted over the years.

A good example is Necromancer. Necromancy is simply magic dealing with life and death. Resurrection is a Necromancy School Spell. It's often seen as taboo simply because people don't like the idea of messing with life and death. Talking to ghosts or whatever. Now it's always a stupid pet class.

Bards are another great example. Technically Rogues now turned into song birds.

An accountant..they'll have it all figured out for you.

Your disagreements with necromancer.
Sound like my disagreements with wand skills.

Ye the necro has too many summons, not enough strategy. I wish summons lasted half as long & had a extra combo skill to use. A skill used at the right time at the end of the summon duration. Something to turn more passive skills to hybrid half active skills. To rid people zooming & not pushing any buttons, autobombers or summon armies need to kind of go away. POE needs to figure out if it wants 80% to 100% passive builds at all, I wouldn't plan for passive builds if I were a dev. Too many necros have boosted low lvls without pressing 1 button, it's nice of them to do so, tho ye activeless builds should really be demolished. tbh.

As for wands I just don't like how they look similar to neon lights or club lasers. Wand skills would look better if they were Harry Potter spells. & not light blue laser beams.

Eh they still have classes. POE's templar may differ from D2's templar, tho they both are templars.

Bards are usually support aoe, which often means they lack strategy advanced gameplay. As aoe buffs are ez mode. So somehow would have to make bards smarter to play.

As for a red hair rogue class that differs from ranger. Well simple. Make the class sneaky, not assassin crit based, & slower planned skills than a ranger zoomer has. Works fine. Some dodge rolls. Slower non zoomer non crit non trap, strategy rogue for melee mainly. Ranger is mostly bow, zoom, & flasks. I suppose ye got shadow for crit, trap, dot. Or duelist tho people play half or mostly tanky duelists.

If they have room for a spear class. They have room for another nimble melee class.

1 person doesn't want defined classes, yet for some other thread you got a person saying they should keep class identity, over optimization of starter appearance or skill tree stretched build benefits.

So if people don't want defined classes.Then they shouldn't want class identity either, which limits other features. So keep the voice actors let us alter the hair options. Or else ye the game may as well have titled classes without flexibility, if they don't have appearance sliders.

" ALL DRUID SKILLS! 20+ DRUID Abilities Explained! Cataclysm, Tornado, Wolves, & More! Diablo 4 "

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTH1cd24CKQ


D4 Druid skills. More of a POE team fan than Blizzard these days. So this is more about what the POE team may aquire from learning about d4. As I'd rather have POE succeed over D4, while POE still gains d4 like features too. A win win.

D4 may not be seen as only a rival game. If the trend brings more people overall, to the arpg scene. So yes a rival game, yet also a rival game that promotes more players to the arpg genre, which turn gives more possible players to poe. Only if both games are popular. ARPG synergy.

Anyways, bear skills, earth skills, sand skills, raven, wolves, boulder, & ice animations are all to be learned from.

POE teammembers sneak to the blizz devs & gain some knowledge. Later. Tbh the sand skill impressed me the most or boss bear sand slash. However whichever game focuses on the minute details of the hack & slash for melee chars is going to win at the end of the day. Like did you see the dual wielded axes & did you focus wanting those axes to perform more 1vs1 skills? rather than just aoe? If so, then you understand.

1vs1 mini axe handheld dual skills are better, than just blatant aoe. Favor the 1vs1 melee skills for the next 2 years. & gameplay scaling 1vs1 gameplay rewards. That's the way of the future for arpg's. Minute 1vs1 hack & slash gems.

Yes druids for POE 2. Essentially is what this post means. POE 2 trailer seems they are half there.

The character appearance slider options are something POE isn't going to want to rival with, so suggest poe has starter appearance hair & face few options per class.

& reminder for Dragons Nest dodge rolls & Lost Ark pvp knockdown skills for POE as well.

Ragnarok Online Monk skills too.

Necromancer, And since Bethesda doesn't want Mysticism can we have that too thx.