We have all been waiting for the next system to be announced; well, the wait is over. A leak* has just unveiled their Followers system. As talked about earlier, the Followers system is something that Blizzard has been working on since before the unveiling of Diablo III itself. Little information has been shared about how exactly the system will work in comparison to Diablo II. In the previous installment, players were offered four different types of Hirelings, one from each act, while most players chose the infamous Act II mercenary. Each had their own unique fighting style with a choice of three different skills. After hiring one, the player was able to equip a helm, weapon, and body armor on their hireling. There were no more options for customization with these characters as they would then follow you around and fight with you until their untimely demise.
Well, it appears in Diablo III, there will be a bit more customization to these characters. There are three types of Followers; the Enchantress, the Templar, and the Scoundrel. Each comes with their own play style as well skill set for players to choose from. The skill sets will be in tiers just like you character with new skills being unlocked every 5 levels. The player than can choose one skill of that tier to give their Follower. There is also some altered the equipment slots to a weapon, amulet, and two rings. It appears that certain equipment slots and skill choices will unlock as your Follower levels. The character will also show armor value, damage, life and resistances for Cold, Fire, Lightning, Poison, Holy, and Arcane (The Holy and Arcane resistance appear to be interchangeable).
The Enchantress
The Enchantress will be your magic Follower. Able to cast skills from afar, she will pair nicely with a more melee oriented character to blast away enemies from a distance.
Tier 4 (Unlocked at lvl 20) - Energize, Energy Bomb, Guidance
The Scoundrel
The Scoundrel will be a ranged physical fighter. Wielding a crossbow or bow, the Scoundrel will stay away from the forefront of the fight and pick off enemies from a distance.
Skill Choices:
Tier 1 - Crippling Shot, Rapid Fire, Poison Bolt
Tier 2 - Bandage, Dirty Fighting, Scavenge
Tier 3 - Power Shot, Multishot, Rain of Gold
Tier 4 - Anatomy, Black Market, Vanish
The Templar
The Templar is your melee Follower. Taking the role of a Paladin like character, he will be in the front of the fight. Pairing him up with a ranged class may be a good idea to help keep your enemies at bay. WE actually saw this character as the Jack of Spades in the Diablo III poker set.
Skill Choices:
Tier 1 - Charge, Heal, Protection
Tier 2 - Guardian, Intimidate, Loyalty
Tier 3 - Intervene, Inspire, Tribute
Tier 4 - Empathy, Onslaught, Knight
Nothing else is known yet on how the rest of the system will work. However, as soon as some more information is shared, I can guarantee we will have all of the updates.
*Note that this has not been officialized or released by Blizzard yet but the current information is accurate.
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As I said in the old thread, I think this system looks very cool; they've sort of boiled all the mercs down into the three major archetypes, then infused them with a lot of nice, stylistic flavor and complexity; I'm really in love with the concept of them having their own skill sets, this is just another level of customization we will have to set ourselves apart / play to whatever style we enjoy most.
Follower isn't the greatest term, but at least it seems the mercenaries are more effective. What I like the most is that there are three of them like the classes of D1.
Follower isn't the greatest term, but at least it seems the mercenaries are more effective.
Well I think the main reason for that choice is because its supposed to imply that you don't hire them, and they choose to follow you. Probably through some quest of course
I'm guessing they chose 'followers' because they'll likely each have their own back-story.
Otherwise,'mercenary' or even 'hireling' would have been infinitely better.
And the term 'follower', I'm assuming, will feel more fitting once we get into the the bits of story surrounding how we gain followers in-game; it would make sense that we gain them along the same lines as the caravan artisans, so we probably help them in some way and they in turn follow us into battle.
Did anyone notice the lack of attributes they have?
Damage and Life. That's it? It's not even dps, it's just Damage. lol
1. It's the first preview of this UI.
2. DPS isn't really an attribute, it's just a calculation of "damage" together with "speed" (duuh).
3. Just because it currently doesn't show in the UI doesn't mean there are no stats for them. The ui is just a UI, it also seems to be some space below that where they can easily just insert stats stuff for viewing.
4. This might already be in place? Note the "details" text in the very bottom. Might be a button to toggle additional stuff.
It's being considered a leak because there hasn't actually been any official word / reveal from Blizzard about this, the video itself seems complete but with no official word it seems it somehow slipped out early...
Where did it get "leaked"?
And CyberDragon, you should always write a small citation to where you got your video.
[Not force, because he apparently got it from somewhere else...]
That would definetly help clarify this misunderstanding going around.
Where did you get it? (The site that first uploaded this video)
Where did it get "leaked"?
And CyberDragon, you should always write a small citation to where you got your video.
[Not force, because he apparently got it from somewhere else...]
That would definetly help clarify this misunderstanding going around.
Where did you get it? (The site that first uploaded this video)
The original video was supposedly leaked from the Korean site.I assure you that this info is credible though. We make sure not top post rumors. Blizzard has just not officialized the announcement yet.
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Where did it get "leaked"?
And CyberDragon, you should always write a small citation to where you got your video.
[Not force, because he apparently got it from somewhere else...]
That would definetly help clarify this misunderstanding going around.
Where did you get it? (The site that first uploaded this video)
The original video was supposedly leaked from the Korean site.
I'm definitely curious how they plan to handle 'swapping out' Followers; are we able to at all, how often, at what cost, etc. I assume they'll want it to be a fair commitment but not luck is into it, along the lines of skill selection; this means I'd assume we'll see a system for changing Followers out but that it won't be something that can be done on a whim. It could be though, letting us quickly swap one for another so we can play around, level them up, use one for a particular act, etc. Hmm...
Wow this is sweet! I love how they have the different stages of armour, kinda reminds me of Diablo 1. I hope they implement a good AI system, if we can't control them with a CTRL + click then we'll probably at least get the Passive, Aggressive and Defensive stances like with pets in WoW.
I just love how much we can customise them. I also like the idea of choosing whichever follower you want from the caravan (once they've all been unlocked). It would be funny if you were like hey guys why don't you all come and help me? Scoundrel - Nah today's me day off mate. Get that Templar to do some work fer a change.
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We have all been waiting for the next system to be announced; well, the wait is over. A leak* has just unveiled their Followers system. As talked about earlier, the Followers system is something that Blizzard has been working on since before the unveiling of Diablo III itself. Little information has been shared about how exactly the system will work in comparison to Diablo II. In the previous installment, players were offered four different types of Hirelings, one from each act, while most players chose the infamous Act II mercenary. Each had their own unique fighting style with a choice of three different skills. After hiring one, the player was able to equip a helm, weapon, and body armor on their hireling. There were no more options for customization with these characters as they would then follow you around and fight with you until their untimely demise.
Well, it appears in Diablo III, there will be a bit more customization to these characters. There are three types of Followers; the Enchantress, the Templar, and the Scoundrel. Each comes with their own play style as well skill set for players to choose from. The skill sets will be in tiers just like you character with new skills being unlocked every 5 levels. The player than can choose one skill of that tier to give their Follower. There is also some altered the equipment slots to a weapon, amulet, and two rings. It appears that certain equipment slots and skill choices will unlock as your Follower levels. The character will also show armor value, damage, life and resistances for Cold, Fire, Lightning, Poison, Holy, and Arcane (The Holy and Arcane resistance appear to be interchangeable).
The Enchantress
Skill choices:
The Scoundrel
Skill Choices:
The Templar
Skill Choices:
*Note that this has not been officialized or released by Blizzard yet but the current information is accurate.
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Did anyone notice the lack of attributes they have?
Damage and Life. That's it? It's not even dps, it's just Damage. lol
Templar's last armor was wicked.
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It is so uncool for such a cool system.
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Otherwise,'mercenary' or even 'hireling' would have been infinitely better.
And the term 'follower', I'm assuming, will feel more fitting once we get into the the bits of story surrounding how we gain followers in-game; it would make sense that we gain them along the same lines as the caravan artisans, so we probably help them in some way and they in turn follow us into battle.
1. It's the first preview of this UI.
2. DPS isn't really an attribute, it's just a calculation of "damage" together with "speed" (duuh).
3. Just because it currently doesn't show in the UI doesn't mean there are no stats for them. The ui is just a UI, it also seems to be some space below that where they can easily just insert stats stuff for viewing.
4. This might already be in place? Note the "details" text in the very bottom. Might be a button to toggle additional stuff.
But we'll have to wait and see
And what do you mean "leaked" it seems like Blizzard wanted to releaes this video, seeing they were the ones who made it.
And CyberDragon, you should always write a small citation to where you got your video.
[Not force, because he apparently got it from somewhere else...]
That would definetly help clarify this misunderstanding going around.
Where did you get it? (The site that first uploaded this video)
The original video was supposedly leaked from the Korean site.I assure you that this info is credible though. We make sure not top post rumors. Blizzard has just not officialized the announcement yet.
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Ok thanks...
Now we gotta go ask the koreans lol
I just love how much we can customise them. I also like the idea of choosing whichever follower you want from the caravan (once they've all been unlocked). It would be funny if you were like hey guys why don't you all come and help me? Scoundrel - Nah today's me day off mate. Get that Templar to do some work fer a change.