I do approve of the new Arcane Archer; that was always one of the few classes that could actually be moderately good with partial casting progression (although everything after level two is either irrelevant or ultimately rendered obsolete by a single casting of Greater Magic Weapon).  But ultimately, the things they get right tend to be pretty mild.<br/><br/>And do mind, old school D&D is what gives us a lot of the major underlying problems with 3.5, like the melee/caster divide.  You<em>have</em>to deviate from old school to fix its fundamental problems.  And old school pretty much completely fails to do the heroic warrior justice.  In old school D&D, the epic warrior does exactly what the first-level warrior does, just with greater accuracy and damage, and with shinier magic gear (the real source of his power).  That's not very heroic, and it's a trend that<em>desperately</em>needed to be broken in order to allow for more truly heroic warrior types.