Mark of the Dragon wrote...
I hated the whole Anders being the only spirit healer and the fact that they had certain specializations other characters of the same class couldnt use irked me. One of my least favorite things about DA2.
For the most part, I liked the distribution of the classes in DA2.
Warrior - Fenris, Carver, Aveline
Rogue - Isabela, Varric, Sebastian
Mage - Bethany, Anders, Merrill
And of course Hawke rounds out the classes as either a 3rd warrior or mage for 2/3 of the game, or a constant 4th rogue, but only the 2nd melee rogue.
I actually thought the sibling death was an interesting way to balance out the class numbers, since you will then have three of everything, depending on Hawke's chosen class.
I disliked the way mages were used in general in DA2, as far as party makeup was concerned. If Hawke was not a mage, it's entirely possible that you could end up screwing yourself over completely in terms of buffs and healing if Bethany died in the Deep Roads and you chose to kill Anders. IMO that is completely unfair, as that issue doesn't exist with any other class. Even if Bethany lived and you hated Anders, or even wanted to leave him behind for RP reasons, you would have been forced to use him for most of the game because you had no other choice.