Blizzard Is Recreating Diablo Inside Diablo III and It's Also Adding the Necromancer Class

At BlizzCon 2022, Blizzard announced that information technology'south recreating the offset Diablo game within Diablo III in an "Anniversary Dungeon".

Caput to Sometime Tristram in Adventure Style during the month of January to observe a portal where you can explore a Diablo III recreation of the events that transpired in the original Diablo. Filled with iconic enemies, familiar faces, and some old-school items, this event is a nostalgia-packed chance downwardly memory lane. Transmogrification rewards, achievements, and a few extra surprises await those dauntless enough to plumb the depths below Tristram.

This will exist a limited time event, recurring in January every twelvemonth going forrard. The dungeon will be sixteen levels deep and feature returning bosses like The Butcher, The Skeleton King, Lazarus and obviously Diablo himself. There'll be a distinct retro way to it, both in regards to visuals (there will be special sound and visual filters) and gameplay (you'll merely be able to move in viii directions, only like in the old game, for case). Even Diablo 3'southward User Interface (UI) will be changed to something more than closely resembling the one in the original Diablo.

Moreover, the rumored Necromancer class has been confirmed and fully detailed. With both male and female characters available, the Necromancer is included in the "Rise of the Necromancer" pack alongside 2 boosted graphic symbol slots, two additional stash tabs and a pet. The pack won't be free, of course, though no price has been announced all the same; Blizzard did say players can look information technology in the 2d half of 2022, though. You tin can read a lot more than on the Necromancer, including skill/power samples, in the official blog post.

In that location's more than, equally Blizzard too talked well-nigh two new upcoming zones, The Shrouded Moors and the Temple of the Firstborn. These will be available in Adventure fashion next yr, gratuitous of charge.

Challenge Rifts, which will provide a completely even ground for all characters to compete via leaderboards, are also expected to hit in 2022. Finally, the Armory equipment manager will let you salve up to five loadouts per grapheme and a new interface should make crafting a lot simpler, given that materials won't take upwards any more than infinite in the inventory.