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!
Yeah, the desert looks quite amazing...
Nah... I believe they did say it could be possible for classes to return in the expansion.
I can't quite remember, but I'm pretty sure they said there wouldn't be any returning in the stand alone game.
Yeah, I honestly don't see what would be cool about playing a Western monk. Maybe they could knock demons out by swinging those scented incense burner things on a chain. But they're pretty lame in almost every way.
I don't see any Western monk in this guy anyway, the beard + baldness struck me as Middle Eastern when I first saw it... so its interesting to hear that they tried to include Western monk culture.
A lot of people seem to be obsessed with the Diablo universe needing to have a Western medieval feel, probably cos of Act 1 in D2. What's with that? I think it's good that there's some variety, without going too far of course.
worse than mmo-c I tell you......
It's not, like, an act cinematic. It's just a trailer using the in-game models... :confused:
I'm sure the act cinematic will be glorious.
now the 5th class has to be some kind of ranged weapon based character. at least thats what i hope, but they havent let me down yet!
And watching the wizard doing her stuff seemed kind of tame in comparison. I dunno, I'm sure with more powerful high level skills + improving the animations over the next year or so they'll all feel really strong, but just thought I'd put that out there. Does anyone get that impression?
I'm not saying I think the monk will be more powerful, just that watching him looks awesomely brutal. It definitely makes me want to play monk first.
The monk looks awesome. I wanted to see a character that was similar to a pally and we got him. He looks like a pally crossed with a assassin. To all the people complaining about the pally type class coming in the game... they must of got sick of getting pwned by pallies in Diablo 2.
They need classes similar to all the old ones so all the old players of the old ones will be pleased.
The monk is not overdone either. I only played a few mmo that they have a monk in.
Whoever said Monks dont punch and that would make him a ninja is dead wrong. Ninja use Katana and throwing stars and in most games Monks punch. Go play Final Fantasy Tactics and look at the difference between monk and ninja... Monk punch and ninjas use weapons.
I love how he can use his fists and hes holy as well. I am just hoping they give him Fist of the heavens type move and all will be awesome :).
FOH really should make a appearance.
Yeah, that sounds true, I'm sure they'll all look equally awesome in the end. And I read about the proposed wizard revamp, trust Blizzard to care that much I wonder what the new name will be... If it hasn't started already, there's gonna be so much speculation about it even though the change isn't confirmed...
I think I should clarify this; the wizard is NOT getting a revamp and is NOT getting a name change. They did change her skill stone armor to look more like a light show. Instead of looking like rocks it now looks like shinning crystals. Therefore they said they might change the name of the skill now.
Red Rocks posted the panels, or you could probably find them on youtube by now, if you watch them they say in the panel. I have the live feed and I did look at our live chat and it was mistakenly put down that the Wizard will get a revamp and name change. This is not the case though.
Ah ok thanks for clearing that up.
I'm just wondering though, why are people saying that he also has some Paladin in him? I think someone said he has a Zeal attack but what other Paladin influences are present because I can barely see any.
Barbarian - Pure Melee with Tank elements(with some ranged to keep it slightly balanced)
Witch Doctor - Summoner // Debuffer
Wizard - Pure Caster
And finally,
Monk - Speed Class // Sacrificing defense for speed & power
The thing all of these classes have in common is that they are great at both point blank and ranged distances. Because of that, I have my doubts as to if we'll be seeing a pure range class. We've seen from the gameplay videos that each class thus far can hold their own in an all out brawl. To be honest, my vote is that the fifth class could be any man's (or woman's) guess.
If I had to guess? I'd guess something a bit more borderline neutrality. Something that doesn't stray too far from evil or good. Not the NEcromancer, but something dark in nature.
since melee oriented classes can always use a bow to draw a mob to it then hack it to pieces or shoot at it until it comes into melee range
that's what i do in MMOs anyway
hell yeah, me too