Since Friday morning you can surprisingly play the Paladin in Diablo 4, and with the new DLC comes another class into the ARPG. Now players are speculating based on a hint which class it could be.
When did the Paladin come to Diablo 4? In the night from Friday, December 12, 2025, the Game Awards took place, where games and developers were honored for their achievements. During the show, Blizzard not only announced the release of the second expansion “Lord of Hatred” with a new trailer but also revealed that the Paladin is playable from the launch of Season 11 – but only for pre-orderers of the DLC.
So anyone who has pre-ordered an edition of Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred can directly select the Paladin as a class since Friday morning at 5:30 AM (CET). Earlier, players had speculated that the Paladin would not only be the next class, but would appear as a so-called “Shadow Drop” – which they turned out to be right.
But the guessing does not stop there. The community now believes they have already discovered hints about the second new class, which is also supposed to be part of Lord of Hatred.
What have players discovered? In a post on Reddit, a user shows a screenshot from the gameplay trailer for Lord of Hatred. If you pause the subsequent video at minute 00:35, you can see not only the Paladin but also another figure with a silhouette that is only vaguely visible in the shadows:
Witch Doctor, Amazon or maybe Cultist with Whip?
This is what players are speculating now: The user asks in their post whether the armor of the mysterious figure has feathers and if it might be the Witch Doctor. The class was extremely popular in Diablo 3, and many hoped to see it in Diablo 4 as well.
Instead of bringing back a fan-favorite in Vessel of Hatred, Blizzard opted for something completely new in the first DLC. Thus, the Spiritborn was introduced as the first new class in the game.
In the comments, the opinions are now widely divided. Stealin writes that a Witch or Warlock would be “really cool”. illsimp hopes for a Shadowhunter class in Diablo style – perhaps a witch or cultist, maybe even with a whip as a weapon. “Realistically, however, I expect more the Amazon,” he adds.
pebrocks, on the other hand, suspects that Blizzard could introduce a completely new class again, “perhaps something more demonic to counterbalance the angelic Paladin.” And xcassets brings a Blood Knight into the game since the figure apparently wears a cloak.
Miniced reminds that with the DLC, Skovos is also added as a new area and therefore considers an Amazon class likely. Skovos was originally planned for Diablo 3 but was never implemented there. In the region, you will encounter among others the Queen of the Amazons – a class many still remember from Diablo 2.
What do you think: Which other new class could it be? With Lord of Hatred, not only two new classes and a new area are coming into play but also the activity “War Plans” and the Horadric Cube. Additionally, the expansion brings a new feature to Diablo 4 that no one expected.
