Yes, you can summon the hulking, horned creature seen in the opening cinematic of the Diablo 3: Rise of the Necromancer content pack. That Blood Golem is one of six variants you’ll be able to summon, in addition to plenty of other undead beasts. But the Necromancer itself – both the male and female versions – is what Blizzard’s Lead VFX Artist Julian Love is calling a very special character that they’ve gone to great lengths to do justice to.
In designing Diablo 3’s sixth class, Love said in an interview that much of the inspiration for the incarnation comes from modernizing Diablo 2’s Necromancer, but in a very specific way: “We really wanted to explore the feeling that you got in Diablo 2 of being a commander of the dead and leading an army. That influenced some of the outfits that they wear.” So it’s safe to assume that we can expect some military-style gear, which we get a hint of in the coat worn in the intro cinematic sketches (take look for yourself in the video below).
Blizzard is working to insert the Necromancer into Diablo 3’s story as if it’d been there from the beginning.
The Diablo 3 Necromancer will also be heavily focused on blood, Love says. Not only will it gush around as creatures are torn into, but Necromancers will be able to use skills like Blood Rush to effectively teleport by dissolving into blood and then reforming at their destination. They’ll also be able to use their own blood – or health, specifically – to boost their damage.
Like the Crusader in Reaper of Souls, Blizzard is working to insert the Necromancer into Diablo 3’s story as if it’d been there from the beginning. That’s a huge endeavor, according to Love, but the team is excited, he said in an interview. “We think it’s going to be a terrific way to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Diablo,” he said.
Your Necromancer views death as just another part of life for them.
Valerie Watrous, Rise of the Necromancer’s lead writer for lore, says you’ll experience a new perspective on the events of the story because of the Necromancer’s detachment from the emotion involved in death. As a Priest of Rathma, your Necromancer views death as just another part of life for them. “They’re much more philosophical and thoughtful than some of our other classes, who are impulsive and rush in,” she said. “If a death disturbs the balance of life and death, it’s more of an academic problem for them than an emotional one,” she said.
This tone – which Watrous says will make them “the darkest people in the room” will affect all of their conversations, and may give us some additional insight into events such as the still-controversial death of Deckard Cain, the resurrection of Zoltun Kulle’s spirit, and the battle with Reaper of Souls’ boss Malthael. When the Necromancer is released from its current testing sometime soon, we’ll learn more about the master who sends them to Tristram, and what his true goals are through the dialogue that fires off throughout the campaign.
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