During this site’s considerable downtime Blizzard (or should I say Activision Blizzard now?) announced Diablo III, the follow-up to Diablo (1996) and Diablo II (2000). Diablo allowed players to choose from 3 classes: Warrior, Rogue and Sorceror, and the Monk was added in the expansion Hellfire (1997), which also contributed the unlockable Barbarian and patch-added Bard. Diablo II offered 5 classes: Amazon, Barbarian, Necromancer, Sorceress and Paladin, as well as the Assassin and Druid with the expansion Lord of Destruction (2001). Diablo III has so far announced 4 out of its 5 classes: Barbarian, Witch Doctor, Wizard and now Monk.
The Diablo III monk description goes on about his lack of weapons, but the art clearly depicts him carrying a heavy staff. In Hellfire the monk similarly carried a staff, but it actually did less damage than his bare-handed strikes. It was mostly used to give him some crowd control ability. At least the Diablo wikia says so. I imagine there’s a similar mechanic at play in Diablo III.
I love game wikis. There was an article in Edge a few months back about the archiving and documentation of videogames and videogame culture, and how important wikis were to preserving this. Wikia seem to be the go-to place for gaming wikis now, and even our own TLJwiki has made the migration.
