Whirlwinds back...what other skills are?

[Bad Ash]

Last thread for now since I am busting with excitement and new questions to talk about that I have been creating too many..

but anyway, Whirlwind is back in, so what else? I think this means that Frozen Orb is defintely going to make another appearance, but I feel like it is going to be significantly nerfed!

Also Zombie wall sounds cool, like a damaging bone wall...

I also think that Multishot will be back for zons! If they keep these classes :-D

[sicilian]

The two I can think of off the top of my head that were in both Diablo 1 and Diablo 2 were Hydra (think it was called Guardian in Diablo 1 though) and Chain Lightning.

CL seems like it would fit in well with their taking down mobs of enemies theme.

[VandalDuck]

Zombie wall was really cool! How about locust swarm? That's gonna be excellent.

I hope they have some of the same Pally skills along with some new ones. Conviction and Vengeance come to mind as nice to haves.

[Q33]

Zombie wall was really cool! How about locust swarm? That's gonna be excellent.

I hope they have some of the same Pally skills along with some new ones. Conviction and Vengeance come to mind as nice to haves.

Agreed that Zombie wall looks cool...but the locust swarm Im not so excited by. Seems like its just Chain lighthing with a different animation effect.

Heres to hoping frozen Orb is still around! I hope some sort of CE is available...and not just buy killing his own summons. It'd be too much work to have to summon and then kill, I want a spammable skill that causes a chain reaction :)

Oh, and obviously one of the leap attacks is back.

[jakotaco]

Just wathced the ingame video and so far I think I can point out these:

Barbarian:
1. An attack similar to WoW's Cleave
2. A splash damage Leap Attack
3. A powerful d2-style Whirlwind attack
4. A Charge-like attack that goes through enemies.
5. An attack releasing a wc3 like Shockwave
6. A single target Bash with huge knockback.
7. Some Warcry, dunno what it does...

Witch Doctor
1. Ability to Raise Zombies
2. Some green cloud, zombie-buff?
3. A cool looking Fire Bomb
4. A flesh-eating Zombie Wall
5. Some offensive Locusts attack.

can't remember what else, and ofc I have no attacks what the attacks are really called and if the description I made is somewhat accurate.

[blackrocksword]

Descriptions of the skills can be found here:
http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/characters/
(Click on the character to see the skills).

The skills for barbarian are:
Cleave
Ground Stomp
Leap
Seismic Slam
Whirlwind

Seems like Leap (Attack) is more useful this time round.

[Spankeh]

Surely Frenzy will be included.
WW and Frenzy are THE staples of Barbarian builds....

[stillman]

I don't care as long as there are many more skills per class than in D2.

I mean, look at the sorc cold skill tree: 3 of the 10 skills are the same concepts of cold armor. These are almost purely for defense so they don't really count as a main punch for your sorc. Then there's cold mastery which is passive and doesn't actually do anything on the screen. Then there's lev 1 ice bolt which is just there to be quickly made obsolete so no one is going to use that as their main punch either. So that leaves 5 skills to use. Five. There are thousands of cold sorc's out there and they are given the choice between five spells to use. It's as though Blizzard gave us no choice but to have cookie cutters buils.
Then we have paladins who have 2 damn pages of auras, when you can only use one of them at a time. So offensive skills, shield-related skills and some spells are all crammed into a petty 10 skill tree system. So that's 3 of each plus one extra to make 10 skills. 3-4 skills to chose from? Come on!!! Give us some options!!!

I demand options. They've got to give us a wide selection of skills/spells. I don't want there to be this, "Well I have 5 cold skills to chose from and blizzard does the most damage, so... ..."

[CarUnderwater]

jakotaco- I believe they said in the commentary that the witch doctor just did locus swarm to the minions, so there was no other pre-buff that gave them extra damage...im wondering what else you can summon on the later levels...im thinking probably something larger that can tank like the druid's bear or the zon's valk

for skills:
-i think they are gonna bring back the pally or someone similar to give auras to parties(might, fanact, conviction,blessed, meditation)
-that firebomb thing looks like a badass fireblast by the way
-multi shot or a strafe attack for range

[JadeSelket]

It was pretty cool to see WW back. Is anyone else wondering what teleport might be like in DiabloIII ? In the past it was used to skip large portions of the map...hmm.

[Davidus]

Witch Doctor
1. Ability to Raise Zombies
2. Some green cloud, zombie-buff?
3. A cool looking Fire Bomb
4. A flesh-eating Zombie Wall
5. Some offensive Locusts attack.



edit because videos are better:P

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/35675.html
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/35673.html
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/35671.html
+ you can blow up your minions(CE like spell)

[panaxos]

Just wathced the ingame video and so far I think I can point out these:

Barbarian:
(...)
3. A powerful d2-style Whirlwind attackWhirlwind
Rank: 1/20
Swirling in a cyclone, delivering attacks to everything in his path.
Current Level: 1
Fury: 1
Hits for 25% of weapon damage
Next Level: 2
Fury: 1
Hits for 30% of weapon damage
4. A Charge-like attack that goes through enemies.Furious Charge
Rank: 1/1
Charge directly at an enemy, smashing everything in the way
Current Level: 1
Fury: 20
Primary Damage: 110%
Secondary Damage: 100%
Range 85 feet
6. A single target Bash with huge knockback.
I think this was
Hammer of the Ancients
Rank: 4/5
A massive attack that has increased chance to critically hit.
Stamina: 16
Deals 225% weapon damage plus an additional 14 physical damage
25% chance to critical hit
7. Some Warcry, dunno what it does...
Battle Cry
Rank: 5/10
Shouts out a warning, increasing defence of all nearby party members
Radius: 15 feet
Stamina: 35
Additional Defense: 200%
Duration: 300 seconds

Witch Doctor
(...)
4. A flesh-eating Zombie WallWall of Zombies
Rank: 4/5
Zombies erupt from the earth to attack your enemies.
Current Level: 4
Zombies attack for 15 damage.
Next Level: 5
Zombies attack for 15 damage.

We also see:
Horrify
Rank: 3/5
A spectral mask that horrifies all enemies in proximity, causing them to run in fear.
Mana Cost: 10
Radius: 20
Fear Duration: 1-2 seconds
Current Level: 3
Mask Duration: 5
Next Level: 4
Mask Duration: 5

All that info is straight from the video.

[Hello Jim]

Wow, nice.
As for me, as long as WW is still in, Barb is perfect. And it looks so sweet(: