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Blizzard reveals gameplay for the new Diablo IV class, Spiritborn


After a at last year’s BlizzCon, Blizzard today more details about the new character class that will be coming to Diablo IV this fall. The Spiritborn looks like a fun, powerful mix of several characters from past Diablo entries. Imagine the martial arts combat of the Diablo 3 Monk paired with the animal abilities of the same game’s Witch Doctor plus the aesthetics of the Amazon in Diablo 2. This sounds like a pretty darn tasty recipe to me.

The Spiritborn is a dexterity-driven class with four Spirit Guardians whose powers you can draw on in combat. The jaguar grants fire damage and the eagle offers lightning damage abilities. With the gorilla, players get defensive power and survivability. And the centipede provides poison and fear skills for damage over time and crowd control. During the livestream, Class Designer Bjorn Mikkelson said the Spiritborn is “probably our fastest, most aggressive class.” Think leaping into groups of enemies to deliver big burst damage with glaives, quarterstaffs, and polearms.

A typical rotation will see players using those short cooldown skills infused with an element of a spirit’s power. But the real payoff with Spiritborn is the ultimate ability, which brings one of the Spirit Guardians to fight by the player’s side. “Summoning the god into battle is the power fantasy for this class,” said Diablo IV’s Game Designer Brent Gibson.

Part of what has always made Diablo games compelling is the ability to personalize and specialize your playstyle within the broad character concept. And some of the other Diablo 4 class designs encourage players to specialize in a single ability tree, such as picking one elemental power to use for a Sorcerer. With the Spiritborn, players will have the flexibility to specialize in a single Spirit Guardian’s skill tree if they want, or to mix and match at will without any loss of stats. Things will get even more personalized with the Spirit Hall class mechanic and a whole new set of legendary and ancient gear for the Spiritborn to further fine-tune your preferred playstyle for demon-smashing.

Today’s livestream also had some good nuggets for the lore nerds, and hardcore fans will likely find it worth rewatching to see all the details about the worldbuilding that the Blizzard teams put into developing this character. Diablo IV‘s Vessel of Hatred expansion, aka ‘Neyrelle and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day,’ will launch on October 8 and the standard edition will cost $40.



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