Now that you’ve had time to absorb the fact that the Demon Hunter is the final class, you are probably ready for some info. Below are some bullets from the Diablo 3 panel that immediately followed the opening ceremony.
* They chose the Demon Hunter because they wanted one that felt like a bounty hunter.
* Conventional ranged class that was fast, mysterious, dark and medieval. Operates at range with weaponry. Using gadgets and traps.
* Has a bit of an attitude.
* Shadow Magic - Dark magic. She knows more about demons than anyone else in Diablo 3.
* What makes them visually distinct - A flowing scarf. Can see their legs and they have an arm guard.
* Their tools will be bows, crossbows and they are the only class that can dual weild pistol crossbows.
* They can come from any walk of life. They are not chosen. They are bound together by their thirst for revenge against demons who have killed their families.
* They are recruited by other Demon Hunters and they don’t have a homeland. They are nomadic but have a base in the borderlands up north where they train recruits.
* They are obsessed heroes.
* They have glowing eyes that hints at working with darker forces.
* They want their prey to know the terror of being stalked.
* The Demon Hunter is in this battle for only one thing, and that is to kill Demons.
Skills
* Bola Shot wraps around the target and explodes.
* Vault is a Move skill and has a shadow theme and has some acrobatics to it.
* Spike Trap, not unlike some of the assassin gameplay from Diablo 2. Take a normal trap spell weave in some shadow and has a sense of anticipation about it.
* Grenades is another ranged attack and this really shows off the 3d engine. Can bounce them off walls and floors and bounces around.
* Multishot you may remember from Diablo 2, a hugely popular skill but it’s been ramped up.
And the character page from Blizzard.com
http://us.blizzard.com/diablo3/chara...emonhunter.xml|||Hmm. Sounds almost like an Assassin with range, and a different background that might put them at each other throats.
That would be a fight that MiniMonk would like to see.|||Like it. Now we get to guess how many classes we will get in the expansion(s) and what they will be. FUN!|||I like entangling shot.. looks really good and also useful!|||I'd really like to know more about entangling shot if anyone could find out it's exact purpose. All I've heard is "It does 120% weapon damage and entangles up to 3 targets". The extra damage is fine but I have no idea what the entangling is or does. I hope its useful because currently the bola seems to be favored over ES as it has both a slow and AoE damage.|||Err.. ES *is* the slowing spell. It basically chains together monsters with a slow.|||Quote:
Err.. ES *is* the slowing spell. It basically chains together monsters with a slow.
Really now? I really couldn't tell thats what it did. It looked like some sort of life-link kind of spell effect that acts kind of like a richocet to the other two linked monsters.|||Quote:
I'd really like to know more about entangling shot if anyone could find out it's exact purpose. All I've heard is "It does 120% weapon damage and entangles up to 3 targets". The extra damage is fine but I have no idea what the entangling is or does. I hope its useful because currently the bola seems to be favored over ES as it has both a slow and AoE damage.
I don't know any more then what you do, but judging from the short skill video, it looks like Entangling Shot works a bit like Chain Lightning. The initial shot hits one monster and then jumps to the next monster, and then the next monster, etc...I'm guessing that more points allow for more "jumps".
Just be going off the name, I'd assume ES would slow monsters as well. I'm guessing that's the tactical difference between ES and Bola, group slowing and enhanced damage versus single target slowing and AoE.
What I find intriguing is the chain link graphic that extends through all the monsters Entangling shot has entangled. It would be awesome if 5 monsters in an Entanged group were slower then 3 monsters in an Entangled group. Like they all had to struggle that much harder to lug their cumulative weight around.|||man... this is the perfect class for me. i cant believe it. i loved my sorc and necro from d2, and now i get to have what seems to be almost a combination of the two, with a ranged element added. this is fantastic
i plan on using vault in combination with fan of knives, or whatever its called... a melee version of frozen orb, my fav d2 spell.
|||The demonhunter feels just like some zon/assassin mix wich in my opinion is totally awesome. For those that where there at the spot did they shed any light on the equipment options? For example, can you wield 2 different 1hand crossbows, or do they come in "pairs"? (please no!) and wouldn't it be awesome if you could choose wich of them to attack with, i.e one for mouse1 and one for mouse2, like the other crossbow has cold/freezing properties and then you mow the slowed/frozen monster down with the other quicker crossbow with "multishot"? o_O
And then there are the 2hand crossbows probably slower but with more punch?
And ofc bows (my favourite weapons) should be able to be fast and in the higher damage range compared to 1hand crossbows. etc etc.
Anyway if anyone can shed some light on this that would be awesome! o_O
No comments:
Post a Comment