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4th Diablo 3 Class Archer-Range-Bowyer-Bandit Class to be revealed at BlizzCon 2009?
Alot rumours and speculations have been around the 4th or 5th (which use placeholders) Diablo 3 class, all from warriors, rangers, archers, bandits, warlock and a shapeshifter. Necromancer is the Witch Doctor and is certain not a returning Diablo III class. We have to see what Blizzard have in the shelves. Also Blizzard has debunked a possible Dervish class.
Diablo3x predict its Archer Ranger type for 4th class will be announced at BlizzCon 2009, because Blizzard use a place holder of an NPC that looks like a combination of a ranger-warrior type class.
Read the article about what Blizzard Director Jay Wilson say about this…
1UP: Can you talk about the state of the classes? For example, is every class — even the two that you have yet to reveal — playable in the game right now?
Jay Wilson: No. The fourth class is playable in game but is using a placeholder model — one of an NPC, actually. And all of the skills are what we call “programmer art” because we haven’t implemented actual skill effects. So that one is just in gameplay testing for us while we determine signature skills. The fifth class, we’re just about finished concepting it and are about to start building it. We can’t use placeholder art, so we’re now just going to build a model and start working on the first series of skills for that one. We’re actually spending more time on the Witch Doctor, Wizard, and Barbarian because of a big change we made to the skill system that we wanted to [integrate them] with — so it’s mostly just artwork that’s going on for the other two classes.
Hints about 4th or 5th Diablo 3 Class from Blizzard?:
Jay Wilson: Blizzard has not yet given any hints about the fourth and fifth characters we’ll see in the initial release of Diablo III. Fan consensus was that there would surely be a mage-type character, with various sorts of magic for offense. The Wizard filled that pedigree nicely, but also removed the only widely-agreed upon character type. It seems certain that Blizzard will include an archer type character, one who specializes in the bow and perhaps other ranged weapons, but what fiction or other sort of skills this character would have to compliment his/her bow is open to wild speculation. As for the fifth character, wild speculation abounds.
The Barbarian is the only returning class. Originally we actually planned to have no returning classes, but as we developed the barbarian, it essentially ended up turning into a barbarian. We sort of got to the point where we went – because we actually had a different name for him originally – I think were going to call it this other name and everyone else is just going to call it the barbarian, so maybe we should just call it the barbarian.
Classes from Diablo 2 not reoccuring in Diablo 3:
One of the things we really did not want to do – it’s why we set that initial goal to not repeat classes – was, we didn’t just want a rehash; we wanted to make the sequel and the sequel has new gameplay and new experiences. I know a lot of people really love the classes in Diablo 2 and it’s not my desire to intentionally arc those people – I like those classes to; I love the Necromancer, he’s my favorite class from Diablo 2 – but as our goal we really wanted to provide new experiences; that was our focus.
Classes from Diablo 1, Diablo 2 for futher Diablo 3 expansion:
Jay Wilson: I don’t want to close the door on bringing back classes from Diablo or Diablo 2; I just don’t want to do so with the initial release of Diablo 3. In Diablo 3, all of the classes should do something completely new. Then I’d like us to look back and figure out what gameplay gaps [exist]…. Then we’d go back and satisfy our and the fans’ nostalgia by pulling back some classes that we think really stood out.
