User blog comment:DJCannon/New Class Ideas/@comment-7288461-20130404162053

It would likely be tricky to incorporate new classes whilst maintaining the balance of everything, particularly in regards to what would happen to the Hybrids (since adding even 1 new pair of classes would give cause to add 3 more hybrid classes). That's not to say I don't want them though by any means!

Definitely agree that a spear based class would be brilliant. I guess it could sorta sit between the Fighter and the Strider, being a melee based vocation, but potentially still pretty 'light'. That could then lead out into something heavier, using a Halberd (or other pole-arm) or lighter, using something more akin to a Javelin.

Likewise, a dual-weapon user (swords, axes, various 'much-larger-than-daggers' blades) would be awesome.

Something I'd love to see is a more 'active' magic based vocation, as in one with a weapon that actually allows you to charge in and fight. Sorcerer's are awesome, but being so stationary gets a bit tedious. Magick Archers are slightly better, but the Magick Bow is still pretty 'stand back and fire', whilst the Mystic Knight fights little differently to a Fighter. Something in between them therefore, that fights with magic, but actively moves is what I'm after. The Chakrams in Kingdoms of Amalur is a good example I suppose; Chakrams, Flying Swords, Boomerangs, even some kind of War-Fan, that sort of thing, with some nice 'active magic' skills to go with it!