Pantheon - anyone been keeping track?

[Ennewi]

Yep and Shadow Knight predates EQ, but in a different setting altogether. Every dev team is going to have their own approach to class types, similar though they may be, but having to crack open a thesaurus just to (appear to) break away from past influential IPs doesn't make sense. Feign death shouldn't have to be referred to as thanatosis.

Back on topic. No bard on release wouldn't be surprising considering how complex they are and how much they've been nerfed on here in a roundabout way. The Pantheon devs have said they don't want the game to be easily soloable, and necros/bards are the two classes that come to mind when soloing is brought up so that might play into whether they make it in at release. At least while waiting to play necro there are other purecaster options, but bard doesn't have a class that compares to it. Other than that, the only other thing that is a bit hard to accept is the whole two race limitation for paladins, but that's possibly/hopefully due to a third race option being planned for an expansion.