BlizzCon: Hands on With the Diablo III Witch Doctor
If you don’t know already, Diablo 3 is playable at BlizzCon this year. Everyone is probably dying to know about the new classes. Earlier this season, the Witch Doctor and Barbarian were announced as new classes. At BlizzCon, they also announced a third class, the Wizard. We’ll cover that more in a later article. I, however, had the pleasure of trying out the Witch Doctor first hand. Now you might be wondering, “Allen, you’re a tough, burly man, why didn’t you play the Barbarian?” Well, although that statement may be true, I am not that interested into just running into things and hitting really hard. Where’s the fun in that? I wanted to try the elegant class of Witch Doctor. I would have taken some sweet videos or taken some pictures, but Blizzard wouldn’t allow any of that.
Jay Wilson, lead designer for Blizzard’s upcoming Diablo III, has recently revealed more details about the game and its yet to be released character classes in an interview at videogamer.com. He divulges some inside info about the game’s development process, the departure of its art director, and even tells us what he’s been playing as of late. The most juicy tidbit? His speculation that “when we announce the next class, which is quite similar to a previous class, then all those players will hate us too.” Curious as to what could be on the horizon, I’ve compiled a list of top candidates for the upcoming class announcement that would earn the ire of gamers.
