Associate Game Director Joe Piepiora and Production Director Tiffany Wat were available to answer questions from MeinMMO editor Benedict Grothaus about Diablo 4. They provided some hints about what many are currently wondering.
At BlizzCon 2023, I was able to speak live with Joe Piepiora and Tiffany Wat, two of the heads of Diablo 4. They discussed, among other things, the development of the classes and the brand-new class.
With the first expansion Vessel of Hatred, Diablo 4 is set to receive a playable class that has never been seen in a Diablo game before. Additionally, each of the existing 5 classes will undergo an overhaul.
According to a leak, the class will be called “Spiritborn”, but further details are not yet known. When I asked if I could at least get a hint about the “class fantasy,” Joe Piepiora surprisingly replied with a cheerful, “No.” Tiffany Wat, on the other hand, was much more open.
“Well, we are visiting this new region of Nahantu…”
In the response from Production Director Wat, she gives some hints about what the new class could entail. She says:
“Well, we are visiting the new region of Nahantu – or at least new to Diablo 4. We already know this region from Diablo 2. […] We now know that the inhabitants call the area Nahantu. As you know from the teaser, it is deep in the jungle, where Kurast is located […] This gives us the opportunity to tie the theme of the class, as Joe called it, to the region itself.”
While it is still not entirely clear what the new class will be, the answer does rule out a light class like the Paladin or Crusader. Now it’s more likely that something working with dark magic or voodoo, like the Witch Doctor from Diablo 3, will emerge.
You can read the full interview here on MeinMMO in the coming days.
As the class will be completely new, some ideas that would fit both the narrative of Blizzard games and Diablo as well as a jungle region would be things like:
- Head Hunter
- Occultist
- Snake Charmer
- Shaman
- or something “Alien” like a Missionary or Explorer
What exactly you can ultimately play in Vessel of Hatred will only be revealed at a later time. The information about Diablo 4 was quite sparse at BlizzCon 2023, but the expansion won’t be released until late 2024. However, we already know more about what’s next for Season 2:
Diablo 4: The next patch offers you 5 new unique items – Here’s how Season 2 continues
