Honestly, if they want to make a fighter/martial arts class, they could do something inspired in samurai or martial artist but with weapons (not calling it directly like that of course).
For example, something like champion but different animations so it looks more like martial arts. This class could use any weapon but the best suiting LIs could be swords. It would be agility class. They can create new weapon type, the stick (just like staff, but not magic).
LM have a skill about hitting with the staff, you just make a stick weapon and use it with martial arts animations. Better than fists.
And for people who might think that martial arts are off in middle earth, while I kinda agree, you just need to see how wood trolls fight, they know Kung Fu :P
You must admit that this idea is better than a random person fighting armored mobs and supernatural creatures with fists...
Brawlers - brawl. Noisy fighting, though, technically, a brawl means a fight with a lot of people. They wouldn't be trained in fencing or other weapon use, and I'd rather not see a class donning nunchakus, katanas or Bo staffs, as then we would have a martial artist, and not a brawler. If streetfighters (brawlers) were to use weapons, it would be chains, iron bars, or the most common of all, a knife.
On the hobbit thing, hobbits shouldn't really be going into battles at all, and the only class that really suits a hobbit is a burglar. But the game wouldn't have made it as far as it has without the other hobbit classes. There are too many hobbit fans that simply want to play their favorite race, and they don't want to be stuck with a sneaking thief with the only alternative being an adventurer. They aren't even game for adventures really.
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