[Asterkarn] Berserker class name guesswork

New hypotheses:

+Soldier: Slayer
+Demolitionist: Dragoon (The term did originally refer to grenadiers…)
+Occultist: Harbinger
+Nightblade: Frostcaller/Cryomancer (It’s not like the two components are particularly magic-heavy…Although if the choice had been mine, we’d see Necrurgist, Cryurgist, and Pyrurgist instead. >>; )
+Arcanist: Soothsayer
+Shaman: Evoker
+Inquisitor: Custodian
+Necromancer: Reaver
+Oathkeeper: Thane

I’d flip Arcanist and Shaman, there’s no way an Arcanist who views magic as a scientific discipline would be called a Soothsayer. The aggressive aspect of Berserker would fit very nicely with the traditional DnD Evocation school of magic for Evoker.

It has been spoiled that Oathkeeper + Berserker is Zealot.

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I had the idea that the Evoker is evoking the power of nature. >>;

Anyway, we at least now know that Thane was not the one exactly correct guess. Could still be in there, probably as +Soldier, mind. We can use Warlord and Death Knight (conceit of ruling something, even if just a barony) as the closest things to precedent for the theme.

The one thing I’s say is that Thane I almost guarantee is one of the 3 on the list of being used. But I think that would make more sense with the Zerk + Shaman combo only because Thanes are typically represented by lightning powers. They’re generally not regarded or thought of as highly defensive but melee and spell offensively focused and lightning themed.

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I’ll admit that I was mostly thinking thane in the original historical context of a minor noble…Except I thought it was a Norse title. Turns out it’s actually an Old English title. But that reasoning is also why, when the Oathkeeper dyad titles were teased, I felt Paladin and Templar were interchangeable, with one of them probably being +Soldier. Very similar conceits (high state officials well-trained in weapon usage in real life, clerical conceits in pop culture which the Oathkeeper component handles anyway).

TQ Stormcallers (that and Warrior got you Thane) were part-ice, anyway, and the Berserker component has that down pat.

One of these is correct!

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Relic keep confirmed.

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Wildling or riot :triumph:

So, so far out of

Slayer
Harbinger
Descerator
Reaver
Soothsayer
Evoker
Thane
Gladiator
Hellion
Beastmaster
Wildling
Wraith
Redeemer
Relic Keep Duh

We know that 3, maybe 4 (assuming not the same name guessed twice) are correct and only 1 is spot on for the class combo.

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So many tq combos…

And we still don’t have an assassin…

Assassin’s is Nightblade’s rare mastery prefix.

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Well, given that nearly a third of the current class names in GD come from TQ I’m going to ask - are any of these correct Zantai?

Slayer
Harbinger
Soothsayer
Evoker
Thane

Perhaps. Who knows. You didn’t assign any of them to a class combo so…

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Okay, Mr. Clever Clogs. We’ll do this the hard way.

Berserker +Soldier: Slayer

Correct or not?

My suspicion is that the correct one from the graphic is Berserker + Nightblade = Slayer.

I’m presuming that Zantai meant that exactly one set of dyad and name matches, not that only one of those names is in there at all.

Next guesswork:

+Soldier: Thane
+Demolitionist: Dragoon
+Occultist: Harbinger
+Nightblade: Slayer
+Arcanist: Frostcaller (remember that technically, you can get a Pyromancer to use entirely electricity damage, with fire sight unseen…)
+Shaman: Marauder
+Inquisitor: Runemaster (the relic/custodian situation was my thinking that runes would be treated as a kind of relic in-universe)
+Necromancer: Reaver
+Oathkeeper: Zealot (confirmed)

No

One of these is correct.

Okay

Berseker + Nightblade: Slayer