Okay, after I think of the Spanish Inquisition meme.
The use of open compound words and prefixes seen in these reverted class name changes should not be entirely abandoned.
I believe that the wording for those particular proposed class names was unintuitive and unintentionally implicatory, but that it would work a lot better with changes to some of the prefixes and prefix rules.
This here is a very rough outline of what I have in mind.
• Paladin --> Oracle Mage --> Spirit Mage
• Juggernaut --> Fighting Oracle --> Spirit Fighter
• Knight --> Weapon Oracle --> Spirit Warrior
• Warlock --> Fighting Mage --> Arcane Fighter
• Conjurer --> Weapon Mage --> Arcane Warrior
• Berserker --> Fighter
For nearly all of the classes, simply changing the prefix is enough to make things sound better. I suppose you could switch out Fighter with Brawler, which would fix the issue with Spirit Fighter where it sounds like a person that fights spirits rather than a fighter that uses spiritual powers to augment their fighting.
Warlord is a bit of a conundrum for me, though. I’m not even sure what you’d reasonably call this thing, since Strong Warrior and Weapon Fighter both sound kind of lame.
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Still leaning away from what they would be called in-universe.
I still think they should just be given in-universe names.
This is what vetex is doing bruh, hence the extremely literal names he tried first
I like these a lot, but I will also say it could be cool if the hybrid names changed based on the focus of the build
Ex: a more vitality focused paladin could instead be “arcane oracle” while a magic focused one would be “spirit mage” and so on
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magic mage