{"id":89323,"date":"2026-09-12T15:56:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T19:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=89323"},"modified":"2026-09-12T19:37:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T23:37:20","slug":"diablo-5-forging-the-next-era-panel-everything-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=89323","title":{"rendered":"Diablo 5 Forging the Next Era Panel: Everything Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>Blizzard has revealed three classes for Diablo 5, a first look at its UI, and shown off even more as part of its Forging the Next Era panel at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/blizzcon-2026-opening-ceremony-live-blog-the-future-of-warcraft-and-diablo-set-to-be-revealed-amid-starcraft-announcement-rumors\">BlizzCon 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The next Diablo game might be years away from its spring 2029 launch, but that didn&#8217;t stop some members of the development team from confirming the first details. Highlights from the 45-minute panel include confirmation that the Demon Hunter and Monk are two returning classes, but a new class is coming too: the Plague Knight.<\/p>\n<p>Concept art, gameplay details, and more were all revealed as part of the big panel presentation. Blizzard also talked about why it decided to make the announcement now, almost three years before launch. We gathered all of the highlights for newcomers and die-hard fans to comb through right here. You can see everything announced at the Diablo 5 BlizzCon panel below.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"ignvideo\" data-slug=\"diablo-5-official-teaser-trailer\" data-loop=\"\">The Diablo Team Takes the Stage<\/p>\n<p>Multiple members from the Diablo team have taken the stage at BlizzCon 2026. After the surprise reveal for Diablo 5, it&#8217;s clear the developers have a lot to talk about. Shely said the plan is for the panel to cover the story, world, gameplay, and even some<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard has revealed three classes for Diablo 5, a first look at its UI, and shown off even more as part of its Forging the Next Era panel at BlizzCon 2026. The next Diablo game might be years away from its spring 2029 launch, but that didn&#8217;t stop some members of the development team from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":89325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89323"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89327,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89323\/revisions\/89327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/89325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}