New Diablo 3 Character Class: The Monk!
I'm still getting set up in the press room here guys, but thought you'd want to know! You heard it here on Diablofans first!
Update: The Monk is playable at BlizzCon!!!! It wasn't at first, but after the announcement, they made the character playable on all the computers in the convention center.
Update #2: The Cinematic Trailer and the Gameplay Trailer for The Monk are up on Youtube. Scroll down and you can check 'em out!
The screenshot came from a Korean-language version of the Diablo 3 site.
Here's the actual Cinematic Trailer for the Monk:
And here's the Gameplay Footage of the Monk:
More news to come soon!
The monk looks like a fun enough class to play with his fast attacks but I really was hoping Blizzard would turn more to Diablo's roots and introduce characters with a more Medieval Western European history about them. I'm kind of getting tired of all these exotic characters.
I'm not sure what my full opinion on this class is yet since it's too early really to tell. My initial impression was that I found it a bit of a tired character type and that it didn't really interest me. I was also hoping when I read the title Monk that Blizzard would make a twist on the character type and make a European inspired monk as opposed to the typical Asian one that's been propping up around games a lot. Would have been nice to see the typically placid monks of the West going all Knights Templar on those demons. One can dream I guess.
We'll see how this class turns out as time goes by. Maybe there's more to him than the cliched.
They are probably going to have 7 classes, like last time, with two being part of the expansion.
There's no reason for the monk to not be the range character.
He could fill the holy/range part just fine.
I agree, the cinematic was really disappointing. So was the lore of the character in the official D3 website.
The gameplay looks great though. I'm a bit skeptical about that red explosion, but the combo concept seems really fun.
This is so fucking awesome!
I love the borderlands as well.
Leonard Boyarsky tried his best on the the panel to explain the monk background in Sanctuary. You should check out the clips posted on youtube for info.
Great points, I really do think a medieval monk from the west would be very cool..this one's not as tried as you would think though.. but yea a medieval monk from the west.. damn that would own..
i was hoping for an assassin-like class and the monk is slightly assassinish in the playstyle. one skill reminds me a lot of dragon flight and another a lot like cloak of shadows.(i can't read back through the post to see if they've been discussed because i'm on a terrible net - but i'll catch up later)
the way the combos/chaining skills work is very fun also.
each skill of the demo has 3 variations so that if you're on stage one, or stage two, or stage three they do different things.
i wish the chain level/stage you were on was visible somewhere though.
right now i think you just have to know based on timing (like if more than .6 sec passes then you're back to stage 1 then count from there)
but anyway the monk is more fun to play than any of the others, for me at least.
Although i have no idea which class i'd play first yet...
I really hope so.
That would be so hot.
Not necessarily, but it would be sweet. Or even better, balding, as in with a rim of hair around her head. Oh yeahhhh.
hm
:/
I agree, they always are. It's completely inevitable.
*sigh*
I just have to accept that I won't be able to play d3 as a bearded woman.