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ok new class idea here...

the trees would be from as stated in the title... amazon, assassin, and druid. from the amazon there would be "range" attack skills, like d2. from assassin there would be traps, but more than just fire and lightning. from druid there could be summoning. just a thought, please give me feedback on your opinion

I'd like to see a class that can cast a spell on a random tree and turn it into a wood wrath that's on his side.
That would be KICK-ASS

I know a lot of people don't want the archer class to have pets, mostly due to the rampant WOW hate. But in some ways it makes sense to have a pet the same way casters have summons, you are a ranged class so you need something to "tank" for you while you rain down death upon your enemies.

DnD did it first, as they did pretty much everything first.

I'd actually want to see offensive plant skills. Something like that WC3 skill that a hero could cast that entangled people. It's kinda like a trap, but more druid/ranger-like.

I think it's a gameplay technicality just as potions out of thin air, summons, or pretty much anything for that matter. aka they'd appear out of nowhere. How does a druid summon wolves in hell?

Just make them magical roots, problem solved. You don't need a logical explanation for every spell there is, because there isn't one.

A few summons doesn't bother me, as long as it doesn't come to rival the summoner class.

Yeah this should be fixed in D3, no mercs. In LOD everyone has a 1 powerfull summon that can tank almost anything, btter than golems and such.

Btw I hate pet thing in WoW. Played 3 years of hunter there and sigh that crap. I always wonder why can't they make an option where if you spec Marksmanship you would lose the pet but gain some insane ranged skills that will stop enemies etc. Pet is a terrible burden there, you have to feed it, you have to control it, make it attack on every monster and then it always loses agro if you have too good gear. Luckily with good gear the monsters die before reaching you

I rather would like to see something pure archer type in D3, with some survival skills.. traps and such. Passive tree, bow tree, survival tree.

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ok new class idea here...

the trees would be from as stated in the title... amazon, assassin, and druid. from the amazon there would be "range" attack skills, like d2. from assassin there would be traps, but more than just fire and lightning. from druid there could be summoning. just a thought, please give me feedback on your opinion

Yeah I think that we will see rather than a new class (Ranger) we will se a revamped version of the Druid. But I think it would make slightly more sense to divide its skill trees into 'Hunting Skills' (Bow Skills and Traps), Lycanthropy (Shapeshifting and Summoning), and the final tree of Earthen Magic (Similar to D2 skill tree).

For some reason I just dont believe that they are going to make any type of pure ranged class. I think they will give one character bow skills (like above) and another character the spear/javalin skills.

The Ranger/Hunter class is very likely to be in D3 in my opinion. I mean, what other practical "bow" type class can you think of? My guess on the skill set was also Bow/Crossbow, Summoning, and Traps, like many of you mentioned.

I believe that the female druid artwork on the blizzard website is actually a female hunter/ranger.

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I think a class with a summoning tree should be saved for expansion.

i think they should be genocided altogether except for the wd. The tree thing is pretty smart, though. Never really thought about it, and as long as the skills themselves remain unique and original (watch me tear my hair out when I see multishot and werebear form on my ranger's skill tree) i love the idea.

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I must have been doing something wrong... because after I'd played through the game a few times I'd make characters in solo with a good amount of magic find and as much gold as I wanted and load my merc up on equipment and it'd still die to almost any boss/miniboss/unique mob of monsters.

me too, man. it really got annoying

enter your ranged class idea here