New Diablo 3 class – Wizard

Blizzard have finally revealed the third Diablo 3 character – a Wizard. As far as I can tell from the gameplay video and the class description, it looks like a copy&paste of the good ole Diablo 2 Sorceress.

The Wizard skills revealed thus far are:

  • Disintegrate – constant ray of energy going through multiple enemies
  • Electrocute – chain lightning
  • Teleport – blink about half a screen away
  • Magic Missile – single target damage spell
  • Slow Time – creates a sphere that slows down projectiles (very similar to the Protoss Mothership skill)

You can watch the Wizard in action at Blizzard’s site here.


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15 Responses to “New Diablo 3 class – Wizard”


  1. 1 -AAT-DEVILSDEMON Oct 13th, 2008 at 4:02 am

    Cant wait to test this baby out once the game is released….

    Oh man this is gunna be awsome..

  2. 2 yay Oct 13th, 2008 at 5:53 am

    same here!:D

  3. 3 big t Oct 13th, 2008 at 7:44 am

    AWSOME CAN’T WAIT TO PLAY IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  4. 4 fiend Oct 14th, 2008 at 12:55 am

    fuckin sweeeeeet!!!!!!!!!!

  5. 5 kain Oct 14th, 2008 at 7:37 pm

    dude, his dmg is fuckin underpowered, chain lightning used to do kickass dmg, here is like weaker than polyfoam. way too defensive a class, with that bs time stopper. wizzard classes should be offensive dps, in every damn rpg its that way and i think that rule should not be altered

    BLIZZ, MAKE HIM DO MORE FUCKIN DMG!!!! (and get rid of the time stopper, its kinda over powered, especialy on boses the likes of Andariel)

  6. 6 Diablo Oct 14th, 2008 at 10:42 pm

    Kain, I hope Blizzard will fine tune the power of the spells. My guess is these are lvl 1 versions.

    I totally agree that wizard/sorceress is a NUKE class. It’s supposed to unleash ranged and AOE damage like no other. The obvious downside is that it has much less survivability.

    I think the BUBBLE (time stop) is probably needed. Imagine 10 missiles hitting you, if your HP are as low as they should be. In previous versions, we had the Mana shield – I like this one a bit better. It’s active and requires you to dodge :)

  7. 7 kain Oct 17th, 2008 at 3:29 am

    u have a point there man, but after seeing the gp vids of the barb and the witch doc, i was really exited about the sorcerer. i was expecting a glass cannon of some sort, i was just really disappointed, that’s all. (note my bad language) he isn’t a bad class, just not what i expected. and u could be right in saying it was a lvl 1. anyhow, in most rpg’s i go with the melee dps type so i shouldn’t really bother me so much.

    but i still think your “bubble” should be out of the picture. something like frost nova sounds reasonable, slowing down the attack speed, but this bubble thing is a bit too slow. (damn i wish there was a downloadable demo, mabye then i could give some proper feedback.)

    but still, thanks Mr.diablo. your opinion has changed my veiw of things.

    PS. if ne1 knows anything about a downloadable demo coming out, or if one egsists right now, PLZ CONTACT ME!!

    chirag_samtani@hotmail.com

  8. 8 thor Oct 23rd, 2008 at 11:34 pm

    damn i’ve been waiting for this in years!

  9. 9 thor Oct 23rd, 2008 at 11:39 pm

    hey i wanna play this game now. please hurry i want to have a copy and i want to draw the graphics of it again. with the awesome armors and equipments! hurry to Philippines PLEASE!

  10. 10 NOUR Oct 26th, 2008 at 11:36 am

    GDFGFDFGF

  11. 11 Wumpa Oct 30th, 2008 at 8:26 am

    omg realease it already!

  12. 12 fucking toy Oct 31st, 2008 at 1:38 am

    This video is closer to real. Barbarian kill everyone from one kick. Wisard – not. I’ll be playing 4 barbarian

  13. 13 magic man Nov 27th, 2008 at 3:05 pm

    make the spells more powerful last game even at low lvls the sorc’s spells kicked motherfucking ass and the time stopper is awesome but a little gay. u could just sit in one and everything that comes at u u will b able to doge so in a duel that would be so fucking gay u would hav to kill them b4 they even got a chance to do anything

  14. 14 geurilla faction Jun 10th, 2009 at 10:34 am

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