{"id":89332,"date":"2026-09-13T11:02:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T15:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=89332"},"modified":"2026-09-13T11:47:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T15:47:38","slug":"diablo-5s-revealed-classes-are-throwbacks-to-diablo-3-with-one-exception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=89332","title":{"rendered":"Diablo 5\u2019s Revealed Classes Are Throwbacks To Diablo 3, With One Exception"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/diablo-5-is-coming-in-2029-will-actually-star-diablo\/\">Diablo 5 isn&#8217;t coming until Spring 2029<\/a>, but Blizzard has already revealed three of the game&#8217;s playable classes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two of them will be familiar to Diablo 3 fans: the Monk and Demon Hunter. The third will be an all-new class, the Plague Knight. The Plague Knight sounds similar to Death Knights from Blizzard&#8217;s other fantasy franchise and are described as &#8220;walking death&#8221; that spread disease and pestilence wherever they go, then consume it to increase their power.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blizzard revealed plenty of new details about Diablo 5 during a panel and subsequent <a href=\"https:\/\/news.blizzard.com\/en-gb\/article\/24297204\/diablo-v-forging-the-next-era\">blog post<\/a> following the game&#8217;s cinematic reveal as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/blizzcon-2026-opening-ceremony-all-the-biggest-announcements-and-games\/\">BlizzCon 2026 opening ceremony<\/a>. In addition to the three classes, Blizzard outlined the state of Sanctuary in Diablo 5 and how players will navigate it. Rather than journeying to towns, players will instead build a wandering caravan of survivors in a world that&#8217;s been destroyed, and currently ruled, by Diablo himself. According to a developer blog post, Diablo 5&#8217;s world will be &#8220;procedural,&#8221; where terrain, monsters, and points of interest will change in the wake of the Lord of Terror&#8217;s influence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As for the survivors that players will call allies, Blizzard said they will serve roles as vendors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diablo 5 isn&#8217;t coming until Spring 2029, but Blizzard has already revealed three of the game&#8217;s playable classes. Two of them will be familiar to Diablo 3 fans: the Monk and Demon Hunter. The third will be an all-new class, the Plague Knight. The Plague Knight sounds similar to Death Knights from Blizzard&#8217;s other fantasy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":89334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89332","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\/89332"}],"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\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89332"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89335,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89332\/revisions\/89335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/89334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}