Well it's my first time ever trying to "guess" at the fifth class, but I do know how many of these are out there. Ranging from deranged killer clown (Sweet Tooth?) to more serious Rogue/Ranger classes. I fall into the category of more serious guesses. Also, I discovered how bad I am at coming up with "clever" names for skill trees. So here it is!(Quoted for highlight)


Diablo 3 5th Class

Scout

Tree 1 - The Bow tree (Some catchy name as it covers both bows and Nature based magics)
**The Scout has spent his/her entire life perfecting the art of killing from afar or not killing at all. A master of both his/her bow and the use of natural magics to enhance his/her chosen weapon.

Tree 2 - Traps (Not unlike the assassin's but following the nature based theme. Also "Traps" is boring... catchy name please)
**The Scout is trained in the use of traps for both evading pursuers, Ambushing key enemies and debilitating would-be combatants.

Tree 3 - The evasion/stealthy tree (Again catchy name needed. Follows the nature theme and gives a possible druid-like element)
**The Scout has also learned a various number of survival skills. Most of which come from the study of various animal life.

Resource - Again... need some catchy name.
** Starts out at a max amount. The maximum amount increase based on character level. The resource is regenerated via killing an enemy or using certain abilities from Tree 1 or Tree 3.


Bascially I think this would make an interesting class. If no one likes the Nature theme change it to a mage-like theme and it should work the same lol.

What do you guys think?

I think I'd like some more details and specifics about skills, to form a fair opinion. My vision of evasion/stealth might differ a lot from yours. Esp as stealth or scouting type skills don't fit in Diablo, since the game is too fast-paced and the levels aren't very large. (A variety of chars had them in pre-D2 development, but they were removed since they weren't really useful.)

I probably shouldn't have used the word "Stealthy" as "Trickery" would be more or less the gist of it.

For example of the skills I will just do all three tree's off the top of my head (hadn't really thought specific skills too too much).

Tree 1 - Being the bow/ranged tree it would encompass similar skills to both the amazon bow/crossbow skills. Also to keep it encompassing all weapons, we would have a throw line. Something like this:

Throw Expertise (+flat damage & +minor attack speed)
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Throw Mastery (allow the use of 2x throwing weapons with a decressing/lvl dmg penalty & +critical chance)
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Throw Frenzy (similar to the Amazon strafe but with 2 weapons)

As for the nature side of it, it would likely encompass Poison, Physical and Lightning damage boosts. (The lightning again to give a druidism feel to it)

Tree 2 - Traps is a fairly straight forward name. As to not copy the Assassin traps it would be more or less 1-3 shots of some advantages condition. Something like a Web trap to slow enemies down or a trap that releases wasps to slowly eat away health.

Tree 3 - The last tree in my mind would be the cunning trickery tree. Blinding the enemies (the D2 Style of stealth), and just basically giving the "Scout" options to avoid damage and enhance his/his parties damage. Now that I think of it take elements of the amazon Passive and Magic, mixed with elements of the Assassin Shadow Disc tree and throw in some elements of the Necromancer Curse tree.

Sory to say but this is the same pie on a different plate...

I realy would like to see some original takes on a ranger class but i guess you can only have so many types....

Well, i guess we'll find out soon enough

I think its gonna be something completely different, I find it hard to believe blizzard would save a standard bow class for last.
But as a class itself, it sounds fine, except for the name "Scout" , just not epic enough :p

Catapults. No question, confirmed by a mysterious source. (My bored mind) It will be a stronger version of the barbarian to pull it, maybe a GIANT <--New race? :O Slow attack speed, but massive damage. Skills would include all those different catapults from the bloody foothills.

*/end fail post*

I find it hard to believe blizzard would save a standard bow class for last.


This made me stop and think. Would they? I am sure they have heard all of the chatter about how it should be a ranged class. But if they have another trick up their sleeve we will find out soon.

There has to be a ranged class in the game and perhaps it is planned for an expansion.

Imagine the collective sigh of letdown if it isn't though. People will be quite disappointed. It is the biggest chatter all over the internet besides the Cataclysm expansion for WoW.