Jay Wilson, designer of "Diablo 3", confirmed to MTV Multiplayer that the character
class will not appear in the initial release of the game. They created a
different class called the Witch Doctor to take the
place of the Necromancer.
"Our approach for classes in #DY#Diablo III#DY# is that we don#DY#t have a strong
desire to bring back classes from the previous game," Wilson told me. "The goal
is to try and give people new gameplay and not just re-hash old gameplay. We#DY#re
not just making a #DY#Diablo II#DY# with updated 3D graphics."
"The problem was, we looked at the class and didn#DY#t think that
we could really make him a lot better," he explained. "We could add some new
stuff to him but for the most part, curses, corpse explosion, skeleton pets,
done. That#DY#s the class. We wanted to create new gameplay, so we chose to do the
Witch Doctor as a different kind of class."
He also unveiled something that looks like a hint of the Necromancer is
coming back one day.
Wilson added, "It#DY#s one of those things where, unless we put like 30
classes in the game, people are going to be unhappy. But if we put 30 classes in
the game, we#DY#d hurt the game. I think that of the classes that we#DY#ve chosen,
there will be something for everyone. I#DY#m not worried that people won#DY#t be able
to find a class that they like to play."
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Resource:
MTV Multiplayer
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