Diablo III's New Class Is....

[clx]

Wizard!

Just announced at Blizzcon is the 3rd class for Diablo 3, the Wizard, who seems to be a "sexy" 19 year old according to the offical site

here is a stream of the Trailer

http://kotaku.com/5061895/see-diablo-iiis-new-wizard-trailer

and here is a link to the official site so you can download the higher-def one

http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/

http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/characters/wizard.xml

check out the spells! both "pew pew lazer!" new ones, and old school frost nova!

Blizzard followed up the announcement of the wizard class for Diablo III at the opening ceremonies of BlizzCon 2008 with a Diablo III design panel, during which designer Wyatt Cheng explained some of the powers and background of the latest addition to the fight against evil. The wizard isn't about drawing runes or casting bones. The wizard is a character class that manipulates the laws of the universe in order to get things done. She's all about High Magic - no alchemy, no scrolls, no mystical symbols - just explosions, explosions, and more explosions.

Personality-wise the wizard is a bit of a rebel. Ambitious, perhaps even power hungry, the wizard is the kind of person who pays no attention at all in class yet still manages to ace her magic exams. Everybody expects her to fail, but she's got the power and desire to come out on top.

What powers? Hit the jump for a few hit the jump for a few of the tricks she's got up her sleeves.

Magic Missiles: Was an important skill choice. Fireballs, ice bolts would have set her up to be an elementailist. The higher the level the more missiles.

Electrocute: Part of the Wizard's weather control discipline. Controlling weather feels epic.

Slow Time: Part of the reality control kit for the wizard. RPG games don't generally manipulate time. It's a slow time bubble, for multiplayer use.

Disintegrate: The real face melter. Nothing like it has been in a Diablo game before, but it feels very Diablo. Hold down the mouse and a beam shoots out. So awesome. IT originally started as a charged swing for the Barbarian class that you'd have to hold down the mouse to charge and the release when finally charged. Teammates would kill the monsters, leaving you alone, and you'd still be waiting for the power to go off. Now you hold down the beam and it comes grows in power as a monster is hit.

So that's what we have on the wizard so far. She's a glass cannon class, basically. Over-powered yet severely under armored. My kinda girl.

Source Edited October 10, 2008 by clx

[hsraffety]

Dude, it's "Wizard."

[shakey]

umm no, its wwwyyzzzarrdd (ATHF FTW)

and this isnt a new class, its the male version of the sorceress.... wth blizzard, dont pee on my leg and tell me its applesauce!!!! omg judge judy has done it to me..... *runs off a cliff*

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

Dude, it's "Wizard."

Dude, you didn't get the joke. Let me make it more obvious: Blizzard --> Wizzard. :)

[Skulltrail-old]

Dude, you didn't get the joke. Let me make it more obvious: Blizzard --> Wizzard. :)

HahahaNO! :hmmm:

That was a lame joke but yey for the new race. ^_^

[perochan]

very nice!

[clx]

There, changed it to Wizard for you ;)

Watching the trailer it looks fun lots of powerful attacks, Might just be the first class i play :) (depending on the next class releases >.< )

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

I'm downloading the video via Blizzard Downloader and it's going so slow! :(

[clx]

same here, 16Kb/s .. on a 20 meg link ?_?

they use there own Bit torrent client to take the load of their own servers, but the software sucks!

anyway, i just watched the ones on Kotaku and the D3 site while waitin:):)

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

I'm saddened to say this but that trailer wasn't what I expected. The graphics seemed a little too "toned down". Also, what was with the CGI when we saw the Wizard's face up close? The sudden increase in facial detail made it painful to go back to the low detailed and pixelated face. The graphics engine used in Diablo III is perfect for the "over-the-top" view you'd play the game in. However, it looks pretty bad when you see the character models up close and personal.

[clx]

I think the idea of the vid was, while she was walking through the crypt it was ingame footage of her doing so, hence the "non cg" look to it. then when it was a close up of her face, they changed that for cg so she could smerk at the undead guys threat.

but i agree, i dont think they should have done them up close like that with ingame footage, cg all the way plz for trailers bliz, untill the end when you do fights from the game.

[addc182]

shame wizzard will be imba

[Andre S. Veteran]

I'd find her more "sexy" if she didn't look asian, but of course that's just my personal taste. I love her feathery walking animation, as if she's almost floating in the air. I hope they throw Firewall in the spell array.

RPG games don't generally manipulate time.

Baldur's Gate 2 did, at least. With Time Stop. And yes, enemies could cast it, and yes, you would basically just sit there watching them kill your characters until the "duration" ran out.

[39 Thieves]

Why didn't they just call it a Bright Wizard, and be done with it? Christ, can they come up with nothing unique or interesting?

[Andre S. Veteran]

Why didn't they just call it a Bright Wizard, and be done with it? Christ, can they come up with nothing unique or interesting?

Because they won't have a Dark Wizard I guess.

[Xerxes]

Sounds cool, so Blizzard gonna be splitting Diablo III up by character classes and selling them separately? and they'll probably charge a subscription for the multiplayer...

[Sartoris]

So will the next two classes be "Crusader" and "Greek Warrior"? They different, really, I mean it.