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We've taken the liberty of breaking down the three new classes,
Barbarian,
Witch Doctor,
and Wizard, in a guide
to display all currently known information available on them, including
available skills, origin information, and newly released graphics. The
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New Classes for Diablo 3:
Barbarian
When Diablo III was announced in Paris on June 28, 2008, it was the Barbarian
that starred in the new gameplay demonstration. Showing that the class would
still specialize in brute force, the speaker played a video of the Barbarian,
dual-wielding weapons and buried in heavy armor, grinding its way through dozens
of enemies at a time in the bowels of a dungeon.
Unlike in the previous game, where the Barbarian was a strictly male
character, players will be able to choose its sex in the upcoming game. Beyond
that, though, not much is known about how similar or different the Barbarian of
Diablo III will be than its predecessor.
Witch Doctor
The Witch Doctor seems loosely based on the real-world Voodoo practitioners.
The males are depicted as frail old men having a hunched back and always shaking
their head due to their physical weakness.
However, they possess great spiritual and manipulative powers as seen in the
gameplay video. They can be seen easily controlling the minds of their enemies,
raising the dead without the use of corpses and lobbing alchemical projectiles
at unwary victims.
The female Witch Doctor seems much younger, capable of walking without a
hunch. It may be noted that both the male and female Witch Doctors have a
distinctly purple color-scheme in their equipment. Although this may be just to
show them off during the gameplay video.
The male Witch Doctor is also the first shown character showing the new
elemental damage type,
Arcane. In keeping with his purple color-scheme, he is shown holding a sword
imbued with Arcane damage glowing in a purplish glow.
It is also notable that both of them have been shown wearing stereotypical
Voodoo masks. It is unknown whether normal helms look like that when equipped on
them or if they are class-specific items.
The Wizard
Only the female Wizard's backstory has been revealed until now. She has her
origins in the Island nation of
Xiansai
confirming that Xiansai is indeed an Asian civilization by her striking Asian
features. The male Wizard's concept art depicts him as wearing some sort of
middle-eastern desert attire, which may suggest that he has originated from the
sands of Aranoch, the ancestral home of both of his predecessors and the great
Vizjerei mage clan.
The female Wizard has been depicted as an uncouth and rebellious figure,
always wanting to learn more, be it in ways best left to those that are
considered nefarious. She is headstrong and will go to any means to get what she
wants. But she does not speak unknowingly. She knows that her innate powers can
decimate the opposition, even providing a tough challenge to the Vizjerei
Premier, Valthek, who found her in the Ancient Repositories beneath the Yshari
Sanctum, the ancient and arcane library of the Mage Clans. She delved deeper
into the arcane ways, wielding powers that were not supposed to be wielded, like
Arcane magics and Temporal distortion along with the mage favorites of
Ice and
Lightning with equal ease.
