With the amount of expansions they’re insinuating they’re planning on making I can’t imagine each one will have a new class.
What if everyone is stoked for Paladin. But there is no Paladin. There has been no Diablo. There was no Mephisto. No Paladin could be our next let down. No any new class.
There has never been a Diablo expansion (going all the way back to Diablo 1 and counting the cancelled expansion to Diablo 3) that didn’t have a new class .
They know the player base wouldn’t buy into an expansion without a new class so I think your hypothetical question is baseless and not really worthy of discussion .
The base of it is we need at least 3 games to Kill Mephisto. So how many expansions are gonna be coming out? 10 expansions from now will we have 10 new classes? I highly doubt it. I don’t believe every expansion will have a new class. So what if the next one does not?
I’ve given up hope we will ever get Amazon back. At this point I will be happy with a mix of Paladin and Amazon where we have the Java skills build into that class as holy dmg. Just let me throw spears that clear the whole room ffs.
There is no male version of that. Since game wants to be gender friendly they will not introduce a class bound to one gender. Even though i daoubt anyone would realy have a problem if there would be a female only or male only class if that gender is bound to the class.
I still think we should have free gender, free msucle slider and free body fat slider in char creation. For a game with that budget and magnitude this is not an unreasonable thing.
They could just rename it and give it the same skill archtype. Phalanx or guy/woman with spear or bow.
I doubt it will be 3 expansions to kill Mephisto.
Next game will probably have us kill mephisto but not before he brings back Baal in set up for the next expansion.
I will guess this will run over 4-5 expansions max
I hope in the next one we get to fight Diablo’s understudy. 
What if…? Then i buy the expansion, play the new campaign and all of the other new content with all of the 6 great classes that are available in Diablo 4.
No need for a new class to buy an expansion.
By 3 games I’m including original, Vessel of hatred and then the next one. Mephisto has and will have been in all 3. Them stating they had planned annual yearly expansions with 3 games to kill 1 Prime Evil makes me think we’re in this for the long haul. All 3 prime evils killed then some mega threat. So 10 expansions about fits that.
Ok fair enough if you count the base game .
I imagine the amount of games will be heavily dependent on total sales .
If they end up not making an expansion where we kill diablo I will be miffed ! Really wish they had opened with Baal or Mephisto. Kill one of the other prime evils in second expansion and the 3rd in the second expansion. Then move on to the lesser evils and angels . That way if an expansion gets canned the game isn’t incomplete!
I think the real question is whether or not there will even be a second expansion?
If there is, I most certainly won’t be pre-ordering it judging the the mess that this expansion is.
The expansion is a “mess” ?
So… I think it’s just your opinion.
My opinion is that the expansion is really great.
Not counting bugs and performance issues.
Yes, it’s a bad level of polishing.
But the content by itself is very nice.
The sales are probably enough. They really screwed up this xpac maybe they’ll have learned some lessons by the next one.
The Paladin will be a merc.
So like the 5 other classes are now.