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.
Hooray! Blizzard finally announced a new release! And by “new,” I mean “another installment in an 11-year-old franchise.” It’s a relative newcomer compared to the gaming mammoth’s Games That End In -Arcraft series, but another Gothic dungeon crawler with the same name as the first two is hardly groundbreaking, despite the ravenous Diablo fans that have been marking days off their calendar since the original installation. Ironically, unless you count the “-arcraft” games as separate franchises, wacky old Diablo’s still the newest goose in Blizzard’s golden-egg-laying flock.
