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!
Well, then that's good. We don't need a Paladin replacement. All he was was an unbalanced and over-powered, over-exploited class. It's not like he was an archetype in the original Diablo I game- that was embodied in pure fighting in the Warrior, which is covered by the Barbarian sufficiently.
I'm really not. Characters are not party-oriented in Diablo III, Bashiok already said that. They have skills that have the addition of helping parties, but they are not party-oriented, and so I do not think we will be seeing a "buffing" class next.
maybe not a pure buffer but just a character that has access to buff and debuff skills
who expected that the fourth class was the Monk?
Luckily for me his came.
And why paladin again...?
but... who knows?
Quite a few people expected that the 4th/5th class would be a Monk or something like it actually
You gotta admit some of his skills look like Dragon Ball? He can kinda teleport due to speed (rather than arcane magic) and his "zeal"-like punching attack definitely shows a resemblance to DB.
That's also in Chinese. It's part of the culture (superstitions), and Japanese just took that and made a religion out of it.
You can believe in Buddhism and Taoism and all those things, but you are not necessarily religious. Religions don't work in Asia the way they work in the West. Religions have become such an integral part of the culture that it is the culture itself. It has nothing to do with following the religion to the utmost extend by that point.
This.
It's hard for me to think of Buddhism as a religion, since it's more like a way of life. Guidance for being a good person.
We never said they were Buddhists... we just said they were INSPIRED by Buddhists. We said the Monk was Chinese because he is pretty much what a typical Shaolin monk looks like. Obviously a video game character isn't from real life...
Now that I think about it, the Wizards have traditional Chinese dresses (Tang Dynasty). I am Chinese, and I am finding it weird 1/2 of the already released classes are Chinese-inspired. Diablo has always been such a western fantasy
Also, something to note... the female Monk (the screenshot from Blizzcon... someone find me a link :P) is actually what a female Taoist looks like.
Maybe it's the huge market in China