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Quote from "Majpain" »

The thing though about "Demon Hunter" If you recall in the new storyline people treated the events from 20 years ago like they never happened. So its kinda hard to put the class demon hunter in there. Monk is a possibility but I'm not 100% on all the types of warriors in Sanctuary.

Good point on the whole forgetting thing. I just thought the Van Helsing Archetype would fit nicely. The only way they'd make it in is if they were some sort of top secret group.

Now on the Monk, I can bring up on thing: after spending some time studying the current map of sanctuary, it seems that Blizzard is toing a good job with giving places culture specific names. For instance, the Islands where the Amazons are from have some very Greek sounding names (such as Philios), or the desert areas have names like Aranoch or Kehjistan, which have a middle eastern ring to them. If you are wondering where I'm going with this, to the north you will see an Island called Xiansai. I don't know about you, but to me that screams Oriental, which brings to my mind Monks. However, it could also mean Ninjas or Samurai.

There are a few factors that could theoretically help us predict what the new classes might be.
1. Old or New: They said that they'd have new classes like the witch doctor and old classes reimagined like the barbarian. That leads me to believe there will be at least one more new class and at least one more old class, leaving one variable. Now honestly I hope we have 3 new and two old, but it could easily go the other way.
2. Culture: Just as in Diablo 2 each class seems to have a culture and possibly a religion behind it. Most likely we'll see some variety in that. Thus, we have a northern barbarian society and we have a jungle/tribal/voodoo society. Some cultures that could be represented are: Medieval european based, desert, and asiatic based.
3:Power: Further distinctions come in what sort of powers they wield, weather it be martial prowess, power over the dead, the blessings of light, elemental fury, a connection with nature, or pacts with the masters of hell, or any mixture of they above.
4. Role: We already have a rough and tough brawler in the barbarian, and a support caster/pet master with the Witch Doctor. Other roles include spell slinger who throse around magical damage (read sorceress type), an agility based character, and/or a hybrid. The role of Healer could be included, but I'm wondering if a witch doctor wouldn't have that, not to mention, it's only for group situations, and we'd want a class viable for solo work as well.

Bearing this in mind, here are some options:

Spell Slinger: There's always the socerer/soceress, which would be bringing back an old class with a possible cultural background of either desert or Europeanesque. Another idea would be a Cleric (although I hate the name, so priest or mystic might be cooler), a holy powerd casterwith similar cultural options. I wouldn't say shaman, just cause a shaman is to close culturaly to a which doctor in my mind.

Agility: We could always go with the old Rogue or Assasin, although it would have to be different from the rogue of D1, as that was a sexually exclusive sisterhood, and this game seems to be in favor of integration. My idea of a new class for it would be a professional demon hunter, most often seen witih a crossbow. Think along the lines of the movie Van Helsing. . culturally they would definitely be European based. We could also have a monk, which could be strictly about martial arts or indeed have the light backing, probably with the asiatic background.

Hybrid: The paladin from D2 was an excellent example of a hybrid. Others would include the Demon Hunter or the monk mentioned above given some sort of holy backing. There are a ton of possibilites with Hybrids though.

Quote from "Zarx" »

Elder, where did you read the part about people dismissing the demons as myth 20 years after the destruction of the World Stone? I think you are confused becuase when I first read the Deckard Cain journal, I didn't realize the beginning of his journal, where he describes what you just said, the part about ppl not believing in the Prime Evils, actually occurs BEFORE DIALBO I. I thought the entire journal covered post-DII Expansion stuff but it covers Cain's experiences from before DI all the way to the end of Diablo III.
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My info was not from Cains Journal. I'm well aware that was in the past. I've played the games enough to recognize the story thankyou. My info came from the writings of Abd Al-Hazir, the guy who wrote all the articles on the world page. For instance: "Although many now claim that a peculiar mold upon the bread or perhaps a fouling of the water drove the populace mad with visions." He also seems to hint on some debate on the subject with the statement: "(note that I neither endorse nor dismiss theories of a "Burning Hell" by the use of the term demon; it is simply used here in its original intent: to describe a being of malevolent or loathsome origin)." Basicly, people doubt that the whole thing really happened. It's just like Ghostbusters 2. Yeah, they saw some freaky stuff, lost people, etc., but people will always rationalize away what they can't explain.

I agree, it would be nice to have NPC's who you got to know and love. You had that a lot more in the original game, with Griswold, Farnam, etc. That said, I think we'll get it. We have Cain (and he must be getting old), and from the pic on the main page of the official website I'd say we can bet on Tyrael. That and who is that chick hanging with Cain in the trailer, who I assume is doing to talking? Then in his journal there's a whole page for Adria (which causes me to speculate far more than I'm going to write down here). I think we have some interresting characters coming.

Lovely idea. I have a couple of holes to poke however. First is a minor one that you can fix easily, and that is, D3 takes place 20 years after D2 (and is Cain ever getting old). Problem 2 is more problematic. It seems that while the worldstone is gone (leaving quite the crater behind it), the realms of Heaven and Hell and Sanctuary haven't so much merged. In the decades since the destruction of Arreat, people have begun dismissing the idea of the prime evils and the demons as myth. It reminds me of New York in the beginning of Ghostbusters 2. No one endorses the ideas of demons or the like. Even the guy who is cataloguing all the freaky stuff in Sanctuary (I'm not going to even attempt to spell his name) refuses to confirm or deny the existence of demons from a Burning Hell. Thus it seems it took a while for everything to go to hell again.