I'd say the Necro is the least likely to return...
The WD basically has all of the necro's bases covered, and Blizzard even stated that they were reluctant to include the necro, because essentially, they made him too well. It would be hard to provide a new play experience while still moving forwards.
"There's a lot of people on our team who aren't happy with our class choices,? he admitted. "But after we've established 'Diablo III' as its own game with its own type of gameplay and experiences, I wouldn't be opposed to looking at old classes. We are trying to design [the Witch Doctor] class so that if we did bring back the Necromancer, there's room for him. We're looking out ahead of time at what our expansions are going to be, so we've got to keep room open for some of those other classes down the road."
@ Zhar:Agreed. NPC's defintely. But blizzard themselves have said that there is nothing new they can/want to do with him.
^ I like how everyone who quotes that interview as a chance for the necro to return leave out the FOUR statemets made about the chance of him not returning.
If Jay had said that the WD was nothing like the necro, I wouldn't have a problem with it but he said"We are TRYING to design [the Witch Doctor] class so that IF we did bring back the Necromancer, there's room for him." That just doesn't justify it for me to include him and get rid of someone who could be potentially different and amazing.
As far as the necro being in an expansion Jay wilson has said "Our approach for classes in 'Diablo III' is that we don't have a strong desire to bring back classes from the previous game," . "The goal is to try and give people new gameplay and not just re-hash old gameplay. We're not just making a 'Diablo II' with updated 3D graphics." and "The problem was, we looked at the class and didn't think that we could really make him a lot better," he explained. "We could add some new stuff to him but for the most part -- curses, corpse explosion, skeleton pets -- done. That's the class. We wanted to create new gameplay, so we chose to do the Witch Doctor as a different kind of class."
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...Goddamn, now you've forced me to find the quote I was talking about, to back up my shit.
Which will probably never happen.
Anywho, good find mate, I've never seen that before.
Well I guess that entire article is actually proof he won't be returning, just look at the title of it, and multiple quotes within lay out that for the most part, the necro and WD have too much overlap to make them both interesting and different.
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1----------- Druid for sure! I tried many times to find the hidden wow factor in playing him but to no avail. I have seen some really uber PvP and PvM examples but that goes for any class.
2----------- Necro but I too wouldn't mind all new classes. After waiting this long and playing Diablo 2 LoD for so long in the process id say every character is pretty played out.
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However i?ll ignore that... game isnt even out
Still a good question though. This is all speculation fun so no reason to "ignore" it.
My least favorite would probably be the Druid. Kind of fun but in the long wrong, kinda blew. I probably just never played him right. We just weren't compatible.
Most likely to return would probably be the Necromancer, but everyone already so that so I'mma go with Amazon :thumbsup:
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^ I like how everyone who quotes that interview as a chance for the necro to return leave out the FOUR statemets made about the chance of him not returning.
If Jay had said that the WD was nothing like the necro, I wouldn't have a problem with it but he said"We are TRYING to design [the Witch Doctor] class so that IF we did bring back the Necromancer, there's room for him." That just doesn't justify it for me to include him and get rid of someone who could be potentially different and amazing.
As far as the necro being in an expansion Jay wilson has said "Our approach for classes in 'Diablo III' is that we don't have a strong desire to bring back classes from the previous game," . "The goal is to try and give people new gameplay and not just re-hash old gameplay. We're not just making a 'Diablo II' with updated 3D graphics." and "The problem was, we looked at the class and didn't think that we could really make him a lot better," he explained. "We could add some new stuff to him but for the most part -- curses, corpse explosion, skeleton pets -- done. That's the class. We wanted to create new gameplay, so we chose to do the Witch Doctor as a different kind of class."
That article is the dagger in the heart of all my Necro hopes =/ I was depressed when I first read it. Necromancer was definitely my favorite D2 class.
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Least favorite: A toss up between Assassin and Druid. They both looked cool when the expansion first came out but both ended up being pretty dull in my opinion. I loved all 5 original classes but the LoD 2 sucked for anything past one normal play through.
Most likely for an expansion: It's hard to say since each class seems to have parallel version. Depending on how much the WD ends up playing like the necro, he wouldn't be too unlikely I guess. The pally could return too since they could make a paladin a lot of different ways and a lot of people favored him in D2(balance gripes aside). Personally I wouldn't want them to try and recreate any of the D2 classes for an expansion. An original class would be preferred, or at least an original take on an old class.
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Hell, I'm sure politicians play a large role in sanctuary, but we don't have pencil pusher classes out there.
"There's a lot of people on our team who aren't happy with our class choices,? he admitted. "But after we've established 'Diablo III' as its own game with its own type of gameplay and experiences, I wouldn't be opposed to looking at old classes. We are trying to design [the Witch Doctor] class so that if we did bring back the Necromancer, there's room for him. We're looking out ahead of time at what our expansions are going to be, so we've got to keep room open for some of those other classes down the road."
http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2008/08/05/diablo-iii-necromancer/
^ I like how everyone who quotes that interview as a chance for the necro to return leave out the FOUR statemets made about the chance of him not returning.
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Which will probably never happen.
Anywho, good find mate, I've never seen that before.
Well I guess that entire article is actually proof he won't be returning, just look at the title of it, and multiple quotes within lay out that for the most part, the necro and WD have too much overlap to make them both interesting and different.
2----------- Necro but I too wouldn't mind all new classes. After waiting this long and playing Diablo 2 LoD for so long in the process id say every character is pretty played out.
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Still a good question though. This is all speculation fun so no reason to "ignore" it.
My least favorite would probably be the Druid. Kind of fun but in the long wrong, kinda blew. I probably just never played him right. We just weren't compatible.
Most likely to return would probably be the Necromancer, but everyone already so that so I'mma go with Amazon :thumbsup:
That article is the dagger in the heart of all my Necro hopes =/ I was depressed when I first read it. Necromancer was definitely my favorite D2 class.
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Most likely for an expansion: It's hard to say since each class seems to have parallel version. Depending on how much the WD ends up playing like the necro, he wouldn't be too unlikely I guess. The pally could return too since they could make a paladin a lot of different ways and a lot of people favored him in D2(balance gripes aside). Personally I wouldn't want them to try and recreate any of the D2 classes for an expansion. An original class would be preferred, or at least an original take on an old class.
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