Forum:Why are the classes named by the iconic characters, not the class?

Reading the wiki, it got me wondering: Why are the classes named by the iconic characters? Given every player can (and most probably will; it's part of the "obligatory tutorial" of the first 5 levels, after all) rename their characters, shouldn't they be named after the classes instead?

Opening Classes-menu and reading "Roland, Lilith, Mordecai, Brick" really makes one go "What the heck kinds of classes are those?" especially if you're new to the game (a friend linked me there when I was deciding my class and the names told me nothing). "Soldier, Siren, Hunter, Berserker", on the other hand, are much more self-explanatory (save perhaps for the Siren given Lilith is more of an assassin than anything else), and more importantly, they're classes.

I know the Character bar was removed, but it could frankly be reincluded and then stuff about the characters themselves (origins & al. belong there, probably; they have no in-game impact so they don't necessarily apply to player's hero after all) could be written there, and the Classes-section would include the mechanical crunch of each class along with the Builds-section and such, which should logically be rolled into the Classes-section anyways. Or does someone disagree on this? It certainly seems much cleaner than the present format to me. --Elealar 06:10, November 22, 2009 (UTC)