Wew lads, youve done great for voting on this, you sure like boring things.
Haha. The other options actually don't seem that interesting really.
Unarmed combatants can't use weapons. But weapons are fun! Why should I be excited about a mechanic being removed? Oh wait, they're getting "knuckles" and "claws" anyway. So I guess their key feature is grapples? It's not clear how this would be implemented.
Alchemists. This at least would introduce some interesting new mechanics, but oh god. My experience with these kinds of classes is that it involves a lot of the wrong kind of inventory micromanagement.
Bard? What is he doing, really? Buffing and debuffing? Is he a rogue-lite? I'm kind of unsure how bards ended up being an RPG class in the first place. You wouldn't take a painter into battle either. Maybe the Larian writers are so keen on this skill because this is as close as they can get to having actual writers in combat. XD
Summoning master actually appears to open up a range of cool new mechanics.
Unarmed combatants could actually throw enemies around, use grapples, all sorts of things that physical fighters right now cannot do, which would be realy great for teamplay.
Pin down an enemy and have your friend stab him in the gut.
Bards for the most part tend to be either hybrids or buffers, which in a party based game is ok.
Alchemist could be realy cool, throwing other potions like granades? damn right! Poisons? Yes please.
Imagine what kinda stuff you could do with that. Instead of having to use abilities, you could make your normal attacks have all kinds of effects based on the poisons.
Such as imagine having a poison that makes your enemy incorporeal, making him unable to participate in the fight, or have a poison that disintigrates his armor.
Imagine throwing health potions as a ranged heal, imagine having potions as a form of liquid. Like Acid or Water.
Imagine throwing a pool of healing potion on the ground healing anyone that stands in it, how cool would that be? Or a pool of fire resistance potion? Crazy stuff like that!
