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Quote from "Ent1ty" »

EDIT: TO ALEC sorry if i spelt ur name wrong you said AMAZON MEN WERE KILLED??!??!...where'd you read this, cause last night at 4 am i was so bored i actually read all those little background stories inside the Diablo 2 manual and it nowhere says they were killed it says they usually stayed at home because women were more physically fit with smaller thinner more agile bodies not because they killed men. If you have a source id be glad to read and correct myself but as of yet i do not know of any instance where they killed the men of the tribe.

Quote from "waddlez" »

yea, and then he can summon dragons and then ride them into the abyss where he can enslave demons and then consume them to gain 100000 stat points while wearing super plate, an armor so heavy that only this character can wear and yet it still doesn't hinder his movement as he can strafe with his bow at the speed of light...

I am basing this off of your comment, since most of what you said is the opposite of balance




there are male amazons, they just make the decisions like in RL <- lulz sexism jokes
and made the babies

Quote from "vl" »

imo there just bringing the amazon back, but probably with a new name and set of skills considering they don't want ppl to complain about reusing the same classes.

Barbarian (melee/w little in magic)
witchdoctor (hybrid range dmg plus melee with pets/focuses on magic disease dmg)
wizard (your sorceress mage class/glass cannon heavy range magic)
monk (hybrid melee with holy magic in close range)
?

seems to me were missing the heavy physical ranged. Basically the barbarian and wizard cover to common figures in these or mmo games. meat sheild head basher and glass cannon. then we have witchdoctor and monk, hybrid classes more versatile than others but weaker at each individually. wheres physical ranged?

Quote from "OathofChaos" »

Okay, I've read a lot of threads saying that the last class will be some sort of Rogue // Amazon type thing.

The whole point of this thread is to discuss how it won't be (or for you to prove me wrong). I will be using logic and citations to prove my case. Please be mature and discuss rationally.

We've seen several archetypes thus far in what Blizzard has released:
~Barbarian - Sword and Shield type pure Melee warrior
~Witch Doctor - Enemy Manipulation, Damage over Time, and minion creator
~Wizard - Pure caster
~Monk - Speed Powerhouse

And Damage Archetypes being;
~Pure Strong Melee (Barbarian)
~Disease and Fire (Witch Doctor)
~Lightning, Arcane, Cold (Wizard)
~Holy and Fast, Weaker Melee (Monk)

Now, if you've seen any of the gameplay footage, we all know that each class can hold its own in both short and long range battles. Even the Barbarian uses Ground Slam and Leap Attack, and the Wizard uses something similar to Arcane Explosion.
Barbarian Gameplay Video
Witch Doctor Gameplay Video
Wizard Gameplay Video
Monk Gameplay Video


Being that each class is capable of decimating its opponent at all ranges, we can safely assume that the last class will be able to do that very same thing. Based on this strand of logic, the last class cannot be a pure ranged class.

Now, someone had pointed out to me earlier that a short bow was shown as a dropped item in the Barbarian gameplay trailer at around 3:55. That is an excellent counterpoint, but the only issue is that the game has evolved quite a bit since then. To illustrate my point, I challenge you to find a Staff, some type of Claw-type weapon, or a wizard's orb in any of the previous videos, before the class was announced. I watched each video closely and didn't find it at all. Why? The game has changed tremendously.

So, now that I've finally laid my claim, I challenge you all to an honest debate as to why I'm wrong.

Quote from "NeroLucien" »

Oh, I get it.

You're one of those unpleasable fans who wants everything to be grimdark with no rainbows, and gritty filtering... :confused:

You act like D2 had original names.

If you got off your ass and looked at the gameplay video you'd realize that he is nothing like the witchdoctor

7/10, well played, you had me going for a little while

Quote from "Siaynoq" »

Unreal. You are still obsessed with the name. But I think this is the first time you've said anything about the design. So what is it about the design you do not like?

Quote from "Thurk" »

Hear, hear.

It's this new generation of internet kids. For some reason they feel like once they're behind an uber-cool screen name (with the year they were born at the end of it of course) it is their god-given right and duty to whine about everything they read. Everything.

Quote from "Thurk" »

That's your first post? You created an account just so you could whine about the new character?

I love these comments because I would love the see the brilliant ideas people like 'alec89' would come up with.

Next person to whine about the Monk better come up with a reasonable alternative or they're getting virtual-smacked.

Quote from "Phrayed" »

Obviously you haven't watched the trailer if you think the Monk is magic based.

Way to not use facts though.