I think I read the pirate thing too, but it was a player-made fictional class.
And I really hope that Ninja and Gunslinger will only be introduced when balanced. When I picked heRO to play on one of my main reasons was that those two are NOT implemented already.
I saw on my old server what only one unbalanced class can do to WoE and as I read them, these two sure seem not balanced yet. Apart from not being creative at all. It seems more like skills taken from the other classes (Mammonite for example) bundled together.
Ah well, we'll see eventually.
