Possible new class idea's
while a new class would be cool, what you’ve described is a guardian. Guardians, in my opinion, are already very similar to the dervish from gw1. I was a dervish in gw1 (only class I played really) and a Guardian in gw2 and to me, they are very similar. They both are “warrior monk-like” classes focusing on melee and magic. If you noticed in gw1, the dervish had the 2nd highest armor rating behind the warrior. I like the death knight attributes and traits you described though. The soul-eating thing sounds really cool keep the ideas flowin
I think they could make Golemancers a heavy armor class.