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New Necromancer Information from Blizzard
Earlier today, Blizzard gave an update on the highly anticipated Necromancer, which included details on skills, models, and the PTR.
Originally posted by Blizzard (Official Blog)
The balance of Sanctuary has been threatened, and the Priests of Rathma have sent an acolyte to help restore it. Wielding the visceral powers of blood and bone (along with a cadre of curses), the Necromancer will soon be joining the battle to protect Sanctuary from the Burning Hells. While we’ve been hard at work putting the various bits and pieces of what makes up a Diablo III class together for the Necromancer, we wanted to pop our heads out of the crypt and share a glimpse of what we’ve been working on.
Skill: Grim Scythe
Grim Scythe summons a huge scythe in a wide arc, dealing damage and restoring Essence. As a generator ability, this will be your bread and butter ability for building up to your more powerful damage dealing spells.
Skill Rune: Death Nova (Blood Nova)
Blood Nova is one of the five skill runes for the base Death Nova skill. Blood Nova does impressive damage, but this comes at a cost—using this rune requires spending both Essence and some of your Health.
Skill Rune: Devour (Cannibalize)
Devour is a resource-regeneration skill, allowing you to regain Essence by consuming the corpses of your slain foes. As one of the runes for Devour, Cannibalize also allows you to regain Health, which is handy for fueling costly spells like Blood Nova!
Skill Rune: Raise Golem (Blood Golem)
We showed a sneak peek of the Blood Golem at BlizzCon, but now he’s outfitted with animations, skills, and clever tricks! The Blood Golem is a burly companion who can sacrifice himself to heal you. Don’t worry—he’ll reconstruct himself right away, and deal sizeable amounts of damage to surrounding foes in the process!
Skill: Leech
Joining Decrepify in the Necromancer’s repertoire of curses, Leech is a dastardly spell that allows you to transfer some of the health of attacked enemies to yourself and your allies. It’s great not only for keeping yourself healthy, but offering support to your party members as well!
Our Party Grows Stronger – Female Necromancer Model
The concept art from BlizzCon comes alive—we’ve completed the female Necromancer model in all her macabre glory.
What’s Next for the Necromancer?
We know you’ve been dying (pun completely intended) to know when you’ll be able to get your hands on the Necromancer. There are a lot of unanswered questions floating around out there, so we’re going to tackle a few of them. If you don’t see your question here, remember we answered quite a few in our original Necromancer overview and more in our Necro Q&A.
Will there be a PTR for the Necromancer?
Yes! The PTR for the Necromancer will be a little different from other PTRs—stay tuned for more information.
Is the Necromancer part of an expansion pack?
No, the Necromancer is part of a content pack which includes the class, an in-game pet, cosmetic wings, two additional character slots, two additional stash tabs (on PC), a portrait frame, pennant, banner, and a banner sigil.
It will, however, launch alongside a free major content patch that includes two new zones, Challenge Rifts, and more. These additional features will be available for all players with Diablo III: Reaper of Souls or the Ultimate Evil Edition.
How much will the pack cost?
We’re not ready to announce a price yet—we know you’re eager to find out, but we have a few more i’s to dot and t’s to cross before we can share.
When is the Necromancer coming to Diablo III?
We are currently aiming for the second half of 2017; when we have an official release date, we’ll certainly share it!
BlizzCon Dates Announced
Blizzard announced that BlizzCon 2017 will take on November 3 and 4 this year.
Originally posted by Blizzard (Official Blog)
Blizzard Entertainment’s two-day gaming convention and community celebration returns to the Anaheim Convention Center on November 3 and 4—but it’s not too early to begin preparations for a weekend full of hands-on gaming, in-depth developer panels, incredible esports competition, and more.
BlizzCon 2017 Tickets
Tickets to the 11th BlizzCon will go on sale in two batches:
- Wednesday, April 5 at 7:00 p.m. PDT
- Saturday, April 8 at 10:00 a.m. PDT
This year, ticket sales will be hosted by Universe, and tickets are priced at $199 each (plus applicable taxes and fees). Check out the BlizzCon Ticket webpage and Badge Information page for all the details.
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Posted Mar 14, 2017Can't wait to play this character!
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Posted Mar 14, 2017Can't wait to play this for 2 months, then get bored and depressed when i realize i love the character but the core game still sucks.
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Posted Mar 14, 201739,99 calling it right now.
Blizzard sells mounts for 20$. They'll overprice the necro pack too.
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Posted Mar 14, 2017Hard to say, I think it could swing either way. Remember that this
isn't a F2P game. That price is almost the cost of the bundle with both
games (well, based on AU prices at least) so I doubt too many will buy
if this is the case.
EDIT: I think the pricing will be closer to what we see with the Nova missions in SC2.
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Posted Mar 14, 2017Necro skills are fucking disgusting!
I want 1 now!
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Posted Mar 14, 2017I'm going to be naive and think that the content pack will be about $8.
Also liking the look of the female Necro. Season 11/12, here we come!
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Posted Mar 15, 2017I'm still salty about new primals. I want my 30% more stats.
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Posted Mar 15, 2017All this time and we get to see a few skills and in another...6 months maybe we'll get the class? No thanks. The Necro will have 4 builds laid out for you based on what the devs and the see. MAYBE one LoN build and thats it. The blind followers who are convincing their self this will be fun will become quickly bored of this because the game, which has countless problems...none of them have changed.
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Posted Mar 15, 2017So excited to play a new character on a dead game woohoo, i have 10 stash tabs already...PASS
This should something they do in an expansion...blizzard your so lazy...
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Posted Mar 16, 2017half a year since the big reveal for 20 years of diablo and some time before that and we get THIS? how can anybody be content with the pace the dev (yeah, no plural here) is going with? how can anybody still love this game, even when they now that the necro will only be some expensive new paint on an otherwise broken car?
you know that there will be only four playstyles for the necro. you know there will be nothing worthwhile coming out of the spent cash for this dlc. and you know that they took more time for some half-assed QoL changes and one beg for forgiveness than for the whole RoS. which brought a new act, new story, new lore, new voiceovers, new mechanics, new assets, new art direction, new enemies, new music and a frickin' new class too.
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Posted Mar 16, 2017D3 is dead. Even I switched to PoE and I fucking hate PoE.