Oh man, this would be awesome, i’d totally play that. One of my fav FF Characters was Zell in FF8, like Tifa, was a melee fist fighter. I’d totally have my Barb run with weapons but put on some gloves and beat things down.
This was the only class in 3 or all of Diablo i couldn’t get into. I wanted too, but pulling endless jars from my rear made no sense. Every other class, even over exagerated, had some realism in their attacks. DH might have had endless arrows, but they shoot stuff, made some sense. But throwing jars forever took me out of it, where are we keeping them, why? maybe call forth little spiders like a necro instead of throwing a jar. My opinion only.
EDIT: Oh yea, the Monk too, even though i enjoyed it, i hated equipping cool weapons for them to NEVER USE THEM lol, always hung on their back. Would be cool if we get another Martial Art style class if we can use the weapons, not only the stats.
This is what i’d love, a classic warrior, and i feel if you have a light magic tree, defense tree, and damage tree, you might be able to fulfil the Paly and warrior, depending which you go down.
This would be awesome and in fact could tie it into the Warrior archetype as well, allow them to use a spear and have some special sweeping or lunging attacks too. Or like you mentioned, it can be combined with others as well. But would be very cool.
They are called “Hoplites”. I tried to put in a link, but wouldn’t let me.