As Lilith’s minions emerge from the shadows, Blizzard’s Diablo 4 beta has shown that you must muster all your might to send them back to Hell. Two new Diablo 4 classes will be added as part of the upcoming RPG testing phase: Druid and Necromancer. Prior to launch, PCGamesN spoke with Diablo 4 Game Director Joe Shelley and Vice President of Franchising Rod Fergusson about what to expect.
As someone who has always played melee DPS characters, Necromancer and Druid are somewhat foreign to me. While playing the witch doctor in Diablo 3 (S-Tier to my heart, D-Tier actually), I never really stretched my fantasy from a summoner class to Diablo’s permanent ranger and dark wizard.
I’d be lying if the Necromancer launch trailer didn’t intrigue me, so I asked Fergusson and Shelley what to expect from each class before the next open beta.
Ferguson, the self-proclaimed “necro-boss” who just received tattoo from a class during the Hell’s Ink tour tells me that “the best thing is to control the Necromancer. The Necromancer’s customization focuses on the Book of the Dead, so you can customize your army however you want.
“You can make all these adjustments around what your army will look like, and you can actually sacrifice them to make yourself stronger,” he tells me with a vaguely maniacal grin. “You can say: ‘Actually, I don’t need an army, I want to be a cold-blooded necromancer or a bone necromancer, and I will take the power of my sacrificed army and create volume stronger.’ I really like this flexibility. This is my favorite class.”
While the necromancer deals with the dead, the druid deals with all living and breathing things. Sadly, we won’t be seeing his homeland in beta this weekend, but Sheli promises that the druid is an incredible warrior whose menagerie of wild animals is key to stopping Lilith.
As for druids, their “specialization has a thematic element. The druid can travel around Skosglen (Home of the Druids) and there are animal spirits the druid can communicate with, rewarding them for returning the tokens as a favor. [spirit animals] they offer customization in the form of various buffs that a druid can receive if they choose to become one of four different animal spirits.
“It has a strong thematic component, as well as mechanical differentiation,” he says. Fergusson notes that while you won’t see Skosglen in this beta, there are some really cool changes to the druid’s signature shapeshift that we haven’t seen before in previous Sanctuary releases.
“What you see is what [the shapeshifting mechanics] not bulky, it’s not like “oh I have to be a bear to have bear attacks,” Fergusson told PCGamesN. “Basically, for every ability you use, you become an animal that does it, so if you have a swing, which is a bear attack, and a bite, which is a wolf attack, you’ll seamlessly transition between the two. forms And then the granularity allows you to fine tune things, you can be a bear most of the time, except maybe in cities or on horseback, but bears on horseback are awesome!
Unfortunately, it confirms that said mounts are “not in the game”, but it’s something we’d love to see. Diablo Social Team, I see you, do it. After all, there was an hour-long live stream of Wolf beta cosmetics.
If you’re ready to dive into the latest beta, be sure to check the Diablo 4 system requirements beforehand so Lilith doesn’t burn your computer to ashes. We also have a list of best games like Diablo if you can’t wait for the Diablo 4 release date I know I can’t.
Source : PC Gamesn
