like you said there are many threads about these things, most ppl love the idea and has its own version

but first we should see some deep balance into the main existing classes, some of them are not working at all (Also you forgot archers, they cant be the same as assassins )

I think that the gap between the paths is currently too small and the path selection should have a huge impact on the development of the hero. The paths should be selected at level 2 and Fallen Enchantress should have the following paths:

- Path of the Warrior

- Path of the Assassin

- Path of the Evoker

- Path of the Conjurer

- Path of the Governor

Just saying what I think. Of course I'd love those things in vanilla but Brad said himself the game is future complete and no new content is up for release.

seanw3 has something like this in his mod.

It's definitely new content as it revamps one of the major aspects of the game and would need tons of balancing.

Feature Complete >=< Content Complete.

new content would be if they add a vampire class that resurrect goku and use it as a pet

moving some trait into some subclasses isnt really content cmon

anyway its not  somethng the game REALLY need, classes need some functionality and balance, adding more subclasses etc is just cooler but not required imo

But there aren't enough spells or abilities on several of the suggested paths (like summoner subclass for instance). And others would have more than the necessary spells.

Nevermind I found a work around.  Set all the costs of the spell books to 10 and then set whatever costs to the extra abilities you want to.  I.E.  If you wanted to set all the secondary ability costs to 2 so you can only choose 3 of them.  Then set Path of XXXX to Req level 2 only level 2 you can have it that you can choose what path you want to chase down dependent upon your circumstances for each character at game start.  Then set the mage books to be given as ability bonuses for taking path of the mage, and the book of life/death for path of the defender.  Add whatever else you want for the rest of the paths to balance them out.  You could even set it that Path of the mage / Gov. has +0 hp/ lvl, Path of Assasin +1 Hp +1 Dodge / lvl (subject to balance), Path of Defender +2 Hp / lvl, and Warrior +3 HP.

As an aside I thought of a possible way to solve the equipment scaling issue with regards to armor.  Remove the armor component from gloves, boots, and hats and only make them bonus stats (Dodge, Init, Crit).  Then balance all the weapons compared to this.  This coupled with the ability to only wear what armor you are allowed to wear would allow for simple AI Script management.  Of course this only works if the multiple rols for each member of a squad is allowed.  Like a said its a side track, back to Path of the XXXX discussions.

This is just an idea for possibly setting up similar to base classes for units as well as Sov.  This is just a rough idea at the moment, just thought I would add my 2 copper here.