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Well, if the WD is supposed to south American/jungle like we need a black guy. Not African/tribal style (not that there is anything wrong with that) but more like pally from D2 but not a pally something completely different but black

Seems everybody has forgotten all about the humble Aborigine...
Though, I guess they fit into the WD character.

I think we can be fairly certain the Witch Doctor is pretty black. I hate to stereotype or sound racist, but look at his features. The large lips was the first dead give away. If Blizzard didn't intend that to be black, they did a pretty good job stereotyping it. The closest thing to black tribe that could possibly be is Aztec, and they are definitely not very similar. This guy just screams "African Tribal" to me.

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Seems everybody has forgotten all about the humble Aborigine...
Though, I guess they fit into the WD character.

What are you talking about? Aborigine is just indigenous people of any area.

Its a case of capitalization. When capitalized, Aborigine specifically refers to the Native Australians. When uncapitalized, aborigine can refer to the natives of any country or region. This is all via Dictionary.com as well.

That being said, lets get back on topic XD

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Its a case of capitalization. When capitalized, Aborigine specifically refers to the Native Australians. When uncapitalized, aborigine can refer to the natives of any country or region.

Webster says "often capitalized", not necessarily. Probably a slang thing really. It makes no sense to select a random tribe and give the capitalized version of a general term refer to something specific.

If you want to mean Australians you say so.

In any case, they look too similar to WD... and to all other aboriginals... so do Native Americans of any sort. We won't be seeing a WD #2.

The very best thing about Diablo is that you have never needed a healer. Everyone plays the role of DPS, similar to the old Gauntlet games.

This is, however, not to say that a class should not be capable of indirect healing, such as an Aura that heals occasionally or something similar, but we do not need direct healing spells like those seen in World of Warcraft. That is part of what separates ARPG from other RPG genres.

Anyway I'm hoping for viking like Druide type.

"Viking" and "Druid" in most cases are complete opposites I do want something similar to the Diablo II Druid to appear, though. In an expansion, of course.

Personally, as far as the ranged class goes, I would personally prefer to see a true Ranger concept (from the official D&D description: "A cunning, skilled warrior of the wilderness") over a Middle Eastern archetype. He would probably come from somewhere west of Tristram, or up north from the Sharval Wilds. It would have a very old school feel to bring to the agile fighter archetype, and I am sure Blizzard could think of some pretty nifty things to "teach an old dog new tricks". As for races, it would probably be another caucasion, though quite a bit smaller in size than the Barbarian. This would leave a lot of options open for a 5th class in terms of diversity.




Green Ranger is About to Die!

The only thing that comes to mind when I hear Viking Druid is a Skald, so in a Diablo setting he'd probably be a fighting Poet. How that would fit in the game I have no idea. But this would leave us without a supporting tank class or a Ranger. So the chances are probably pretty slim on getting a Viking Druid.

I find it funny that Big blonde and blue eyed equals Viking when its the stereotype for every Barbarian people since the Celts first rampaged across Italy

I don't think we'll be seeing any Knights of Westmarch *paladins* in this game, atleast not until they release more content after the release. I could possibly see the Support tanks role being taken up by a warrior from Lut Gholein? This way you still maintain a heavy armor look thats unique compared to the Paladins and Warriors.

Where as the Barbarian is Two handed weapon,sword and shield and dual wield. The Warrior from Lut Gholein could focus more on Spears and pole arms?

Honestly I can't think of something that could be clever or cool for a Ranger type that tops a Sister or Amazon, unless now that I think about, if you wanted to go with the warrior poet idea where he/she doesnt want to get their hands dirty with blood, they just shoot people with sharp objects

Honestly, that warrior from Lut Golein style would be perfect for a fifth class. I though about those Mercs the other day, and though about the same thing, being a spear and pole-arm wielder. It would fit perfect with a spear and shield kind of thing if you ask me. It would also fit the Middle Eastern ethnicity. He could also command some sort of passives, similar to auras, to make him play like a Pally, but not be a Pally, that is if that is what Blizzard is going for (who knows, maybe they are leaving room to bring Pally back?).

Then, instead of the poet you could drop the classic woodland Ranger idea I mentioned before, and you would have a great starting set up. Have him the ranged/agile fighter class with some forest magic or summons (have like a wolf or hawk, similar to the Druid summons tree), and you would have a beast.

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Viking in terms of the look lets say:
big strong guy blond hair, blue eyes --->a nature guy

Fair enough, so long as we are clear that you're not applying a baleful stereotype to either the Druid orders of old or the neo-Druids.

as for "healer"

Where did I say pure healer? The D2 Druid is a tank + healer + pet class so all in one which is pretty impressive.

You..aren't saying that in reference to me, are you? :confused:

lol really the only thing that I think connects the Druids from Diablo to real life druids is the name itself and Gaelic names the culture bears. Other than that Druids never even picked up a weapon, much less got near a fight.
Plus I don't recall anything Celtic aside from the gods turning into animals

I'm impartial as to what happens with the Ranged class, seeing that at best I'm going to run the Barb the entire time with a possible run with the second melee class * if Blizzard gives us one*

Knowing blizzard they'll give us a pleasing over the top character that would fit in the setting and compliment the rest of the cast

Other than that Druids never even picked up a weapon, much less got near a fight.

Uh, yeah they did. They just weren't barbaric like Vikings. They fought against the Romans during the Roman conquest of Gaul, and even afterwards continued to rebel.

Not that I would expect any class named "Druid" to accurately portray any of the ancient Druids, anyway. Mostly game-makers and fantasy enthusiasts just play on stereotypes from the Vates and Bards.

In no sources have I seen that said a Druid ever picked up a spear or a sword and taking it to a Romans Skull. Druids filled many roles in Celtic society, be they teachers, advisors, judges, bards, and religious.

From what I know the only bladed thing they ever picked up was a sickle or a knife for sacrifice.

War and fighting was for nobles and his warriors. The Druids were involved in the war against Rome but they never picked up a weapon. Celtic law was Druids were exempt from Military service. Sending a Druid into a fight would be like sending in a Greek philosophers into a fight.

I second that.

What about an antarctican?

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In no sources have I seen that said a Druid ever picked up a spear or a sword and taking it to a Romans Skull. Druids filled many roles in Celtic society, be they teachers, advisors, judges, bards, and religious.

From what I know the only bladed thing they ever picked up was a sickle or a knife for sacrifice.

War and fighting was for nobles and his warriors. The Druids were involved in the war against Rome but they never picked up a weapon. Celtic law was Druids were exempt from Military service. Sending a Druid into a fight would be like sending in a Greek philosophers into a fight.

Actually, I did a whole report on the ancient Druids, "The Ancient Druids: Megalithic Enigma". My sources were The Philosopher and the Druids by Philip Freeman, http://www.britainexpress.com/history/roman_invasion.htm, wikipedia articles, http://witcombe.sbc.edu/earthmysteries/EMDruids.html, http://www.britainexpress.com/History/prehistory/druids.htm, Ancient Mysteries by Peter James and Nick Thorpe, and The Druids: A Study in Keltic Prehistory by TD Kendrick.

That would be three published books, one .edu website, wikipedia for general purposes (to find other resources), and two established British website articles.

Unless I missed something in your links.

Looked through your sources man, no where did they say the Druids were men of war. When I say that I mean an actually warrior who picked up a weapon to end another mans life.

The only thing that they did that related to war was advise and act as ambassadors. Druids acted as more than Priests but also law makers so it would make sense that they would travel to rival clans and tribes to negotiate peace or other tribal politics.

The only time a Druid took an animal or humans life was in sacrifice to their gods.
So no Druids never fought in a war or killed in the name of a chief.

Um, the Amazon comes from Skovos... Shes a fucking Amazon, thats where they ALL come from. Their society is pretty separated from most of the world.

And we have a ton more races than that. The tribal people of Tagenze (the WD) and there are some asian looking people from Xiansai (the Wizard). Who knows what else Blizzard could be adding in at this point, but it would be almost silly if we didn't see something from Kehjistan or Westmarch (at least one, if not both).