Joystiq posted their in-depth hands on with Diablo III at BlizzCon about a week back with a crazy breakdown of the three known classes, as well as extreme close-up photographs of the game's gorgeous looking interface.
Here's a breakdown of the classes in point by point format. Be sure to check out the rest of the article for further information on the game's interface, character creation, inventory, the skill and rune system, quests and the rest of their experience.
Barbarian
Tough, big, powerful
Has skills like Battle Rage, which increases damage 100%, and Iron Skin, increases his/her armor by 20%, and a slew of other melee-based skills
Can dual wield weapons
Makes a perfect tank
Wasn't too different than the Barbarian from D2, although it sure looks a heck of a lot better, so we didn't spend too much time with the big brute. Still, when you just need someone to kick ass, you can't go wrong with this one.
Witch Doctor
Incredibly creepy and cool, and has a nifty Cajun dialect
Extremely fun and imaginative spells like Zombie Wall, where a wall of undead rise from the ground and both blocks and attacks your enemies.
Uses toads, locusts, and even spiders to swarm and vivisect enemies
The Skull of Flame spell makes an excellent ranged attack, and does area damage. Plus, it just looks cool. In the videos they showed us (but not in the demo), when you slot the Multistrike Rune in this spell, the skull bounces, and does big area damage with each bounce.
Wizard
The Wizard was the only class that had the Rune system working, and we put it to extensive use. It truly changes your spell, and you'll be mixing and matching a lot.
Make sure you select Disintegrate early on, because it's an extremely powerful spell. Your character locks in place while you hold down the mouse button, and you mouse around in circles to aim at your enemies and melt them.
What do they exactly mean with "tank"? Because Blizz said "there wont be tanks and healers". (Not exact quote.)
Also melee spells FTW.
The wiz has a good chance of being the class ill start the game with but i have to see the other classes of course.
Will read full article ASAP.
Edit: Yay! First.
A tank implies what it means, a heavy armored vehicle. A tank can take a ton of damage, and depending on the game, it can dish it out as well.
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What is normal? Normal is a concept that everyone or a majority of people are the same or similar. However, we know that everyone is unique. If everyone is unique, then everyone is different. If everyone is different, then everyone is weird. If everyone is weird, then everyone is normal.
Everyone will be dishing out damage. The difference is how you'll be doing it, and how effective and mobile your character will be, depending on situations. If you're going up against a horde of skeleton archers, the ability to teleport behind them and destroy them would be more effective than say... firing a hail of firebolts at them.
Likewise, a Barbarian who uses his leap to get behind their defenses would be more effective than the Barbarian who opted to bash his way through. He'd sustain too much damage doing something like that.
a barb that will jus walk up to archers and destroy them is the one that i want on my team..... and the caster that takes the arrows and drops bombs on their heads is the one i want on my team.
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DIABLO = DEVIL its not supposed to be a nice game autostats are rediclous lack of pots is not welcome if it aint broke dont fix it! (diablo2)
Here's a breakdown of the classes in point by point format. Be sure to check out the rest of the article for further information on the game's interface, character creation, inventory, the skill and rune system, quests and the rest of their experience.
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A tank implies what it means, a heavy armored vehicle. A tank can take a ton of damage, and depending on the game, it can dish it out as well.
--Steel :cool:
Likewise, a Barbarian who uses his leap to get behind their defenses would be more effective than the Barbarian who opted to bash his way through. He'd sustain too much damage doing something like that.
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its not supposed to be a nice game
autostats are rediclous
lack of pots is not welcome
if it aint broke dont fix it! (diablo2)
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