Seeker

How Seekers were envisioned.

Seekers are Wizards of the Coast's attempt at making a primal controller that is not called a druid. The result is a class whose primary mechanic revolves around imbuing weapons with primal spirits and then throwing said weapons as hard as they can at enemies. In many ways Seekers are like the unpopular kid from druid school who couldn't take an animal form or get any living animals to be friends with him so he dropped out, moved back with his mom, and now binds animal spirits to arrows and shoots them at enemies as a way of getting back at them for not letting him join in their reindeer games.

Seekers can choose to use either bows/crossbows or thrown weapons (the latter of which return to your hand after attacks are made, with no clear mechanic on how that makes sense other than "the spirits do it"). This is, in fact, the entire problem behind the seeker is that none of its features seem to make any sense whatsoever. It is a ranged Controller class that, according to the PHB3, subclasses in either striker or defender. The defending option focuses on daring people to attack you, and then running away to hide behind your party's real defender. Luckily, this part is simple as he will be easy to spot, he will be the one not holding a bow and talking to dead people during his turn.

Despite the generally lackluster power/role/feat selection for this class the seeker does have the occasional useful power. Like the ability to slow/shiftlock at-will, or the encounter power feyjump shot which allows you to swap two enemies' places on the field and daze both of them. There are also more colorful things like causing trees to grow out of bad guys, or (my personal favorite) having a swarm of spirit bats attack your enemies because, presumably, all the living bats were busy helping out druids.

Still, the lack of many hard controlling powers, or the ability to enforce the soft control options available leave the Seeker way outclassed in the controller department. There are simply better choices out there, even for the same power source. But if all you want is to rely on dead things to help you survive combat and to shoot people with trick arrows this is the class for you.

What Seekers actually look like: flavorful but ineffective.