It was suggested that with a change of focus I should start a new thread. I didn't quite have the time to do my previous one until it was clear that while it was a nice concept it was quite niche.
The Goal of this tier system is to get down to where general builds are.
Credit to Jaronk for the tier system.
Class 1s these classes are powerful and flexible. They can swap out bad options almost on the fly. They can easily have many high powered options such as save or dies, battlefield control, buffing, and other options.
Wujen*, Wizard, Spirit Shaman*, Erudite+spell to power, Druid, Cleric, Artificer, Archivist
Tier 2 Like the tier ones they have a lot of powerful options, but are limited to set spell lists, which means that while they were awesome yesterday, the day before they were using third tier spells for the situation that they were in.
Ardent, Beguiler+Arcane Disciple, Dread Necromancer+Arcane Disciple, Favored Soul, Psion, Sorcerer, Wilder*, Binder+summoning vestige, Erudite
Tier 3 These people are very competent, and can do their jobs quite well and are good at what they do, as well as being decent at other options. Or they can have good versatility and be able to do anything at a good level, but not great level.
Versatile Factotum, Spell Thief, Rogue, Scout, Coutier, Bard, Binder, Incarnate,Totemist, Beguiler, Wildshape Ranger
Very competent
Truenamer+Item Familiar+Truename item by 4th and 7th, Warmage+Arcane Disciple, Psychic Warrior, Duskblade, Shadow Caster(levels 7+), Warblade, Sword sage, Crusader, Dragonfire Adept, Warlock*, Healer+ corrupt and sanctified spells and a liberal DM, Shugenja, Dread Necromancer
Tier 4 these classes can do their one job, and that's damn near it. They can do other things very badly if at all.
Hexblade, Marshal, Dragonshaman, Knight, Fighter+good feat set up , Barbarian(Pouncing and whirlwind variants), Ranger, Ninja, Rokugan Ninja, Sohei, Adept, Warmage, Paladin with battle caster and a good mount. Healer+sanctified spells
Tier 5 These classes have an niche like running fast, or having a pet that might be better than me, but they are just plain bad at things that matter.
Monk, Inkyo, Samurai+imperious command, Paladin, Divine Mind, Expert, Soulborn*, Swashbuckler, Soulknife. Fighter Shadow caster levels 1-6. Healer 1-16. Truenamer. Barbarian
Junk- Can we leave him behind and split the loot 3 ways instead of 4.
Commoner, warrior, Noble, Samurai,
The basis for this tier system is to measure classes based on where they are by themselves and to put them on where they have a tier changing option. For an example a couple arcane disciple gives access to a wide swath of spells, which normally bump the know it all casters up a tier. Alternatively a fighter that has only access to core is going to suck down a tier. There are enough feats outside of core in over 6 different sources to make him a tier 4 in general, so its not a case of a specific source putting him up a tier, but its that denial of sources drops him a tier.
