To make a new class...

It's both less and more than I expected at the same time.

New main weapon attack type
3 archetypes (Nodes structure, big nodes, interesting interactions)
97 nodes (based on archer)
4 spells
440 Weapons (Spanned across all of game; includes dungeons, bob's mythic weapons, olux prized crap, and just chest loot)
12 Mythic Weapons
26 Aspects (based on warrior)
5-10 Fabled Armors with specialized MIDs
1 new crafting recipe in Weaponsmithing at every level bracket
2 minutes of dev time in balancing

 

On top of that, there are 5 elements that are (mostly) balanced throughout the classes, especially with mythics.
Warrior is fire
Assassin is thunder
Archer is air
Mage is water
Shaman is earth

What would a sixth class be? neutral? rainbow?

 

I don't really feel that specific elements are assigned to specific classes tbh. There's a decent spread of elements for all classes.

 

The Fruma mythics are all 3-element combinations, 2 for each class. There are only 10 possible 3-element combinations, what would the 6th class’s be? They would have to be duplicates.

 

5 is a cleaner number than six

 

Not if use use Senery! (also known as Seximal in the Jan Misalian Base Neutral System for naming Bases)

 

I'm sure there'd be a way for them to simply add more archetypes for current classes in a way that would be equivalent to having a new class entirely.

 

They'd need to add a sixth element

 

Add to that a new rune and a new Fruma region

 

Hear me out: what if neutral was rebranded as light and was opposed by dern which the absence of elements /j

 

Oh yeah right LORE