Originally Posted by
Verain
I would actually make the case that of the WoW classes, rogue is probably closest to Demon Hunter. Everyone remembers the Demon Hunter in demon form, but that was his ultimate. Mostly his game play was running into things at a normal pace and meleeing them. His passive defense, evasion, is one of only two "hero class" abilities that a rogue has (and a rogue has it much cooler as a powerful cooldown- the demon hunter had it more as a passive survival trick). If you wanted to play a Demon Hunter in WoW, your options are really rogue and warrior- it's only recently that you would consider warlock, and only because of the extra and interesting tools that Demonology has to play with.
Still, that's a "best fit" case. It's only because a lot of us really loved Demon Hunters and were surprised that WoW had Everquest classes instead of Warcraft classes.