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Diablo III’s Female Monk shown off
Blizzard just keeps slowly dragging us along. They recently release images of the female version of the monk class. Unlike previous games in d3 you can choose a sex. Maybe they are expecting a large amount of female players since world of warcraft became so popular with the ladies. You can go to blizz’s monk page for the flash animated monk lady in all her glory…or just look at the pic.
Subscribe to the comments for this postMonk announced as the 4th class at Blizzcon
The fourth class has been revealed. The monk is a melee class that favors speed over power. The class uses a combo system to inflict close quarters combat damage. The monk is a spiritual class that uses bare hands and body as a weapon.
Skills announced so far:
Tier 1 Skills
- Crippling Wave
- Impenetrable Defense
Tier 2 Skills
- Force Without Thought
- Exploding Palm
- Radiant Visage
Tier 3 Skills
- Seven-Sided Strike
Tier 4 Skills
- Inner Sanctuary
- Way of the Hundred Fists
Gameplay below:
Jay Wilson interview from 1up.com
Here is an interview from www.1up.com with Jay Wilson. Jay discusses how his style has changed (and stayed the same) since joining the Blizzard team.
Some of the highlights:
- How they develop the classes. They focus on one class at a time and adjust the others as they make changes to the class they are working on.
- Diablo II players could use potions and run faster than monsters so class specific evasion abilities didn’t matter as much. Classes were too generic. They have created enemies that are difficult and each class has specific abilities that allow them to deal with the situations that the enemies create. Diablo is about combat and not crowd control but elements of light crowd control have improved the feel.
- A crafting system or something like it is likely. Rune words are gone so they are definitely replacing that system with some sort of light crafting.
- Legendary items will have a chance at having gem slots. This allows higher level items some diversity.
http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?pager.offset=1&cId=3172030&p=1
Diablo III’s wizard class with gameplay video and abilities
Mike Morhaime CEO of blizzard introduced players to the new class for Diablo III: the Wizard. Very similar to a mage in World of Wacraft the wizard uses ice, fire and well…explosions. The wizard disturbs the laws of the universe in order to cast spells.
Abilities and gameplay video after the jump.