Witch Doctor Or Necromancer (dunno if this topic has been up)

[gN-subleader]

for me they are like brothers.

but do u think if either pked each other. who wud win with their best gear and skills. who wud?

[Omnicide]

We don't know all of the WD's skills or their capabilities.

It's impossible to tell as it is.

[Gamer7]

I recon the vodoo guy is undermining...so dissapointed they thought of a zombie character and didnt go with the necromicon!...(how much more prefectly goth can you get?...the witch doctor is an oversized pigmy shaman)

specially with all the character cut scenes that the necromancer is gonna miss out on. so pissed, just hope there is another character i like comming.

[Jostron]

Lol @ this question... Definitely not enough information to even really consider an answer.

[Gamer7]

yes there is, African Witch doctors suck... end of discussion.

[Omnicide]

Take this **** to the D3 discussion. This thread is misplaced as it is.

Another thing...

KEEP *****ING, MAYBE THAT WILL MAKE BLIZZARD GET RID OF THE WITCH DOCTOR?

[Gamer7]

Soz, there are so many topics its hard to know what belongs where.

I dont have any alterior motives im just airing my opinions like everyone else on the internet. and that is;

Witch doctor is undermining to the Nercromancer character and is just a raggedy jungle shaman. Blizzard f*cked this up and i dont care what if they change it or not. They f*cked it.

But i am looking forward to other characters.


p.s. big letters = angry...grrr!

[Omnicide]

Necromancer was taken out because it was TOO successful in Diablo 2. Necro supporters seriously take the With Docter too anal for their own good.

Not really.

Big letters=Sure to be read. As it's very well proven.

[Gamer7]

i dont understand why it would be taken out cause it was too succesful, do you mean in terms of game difficulty or popularity?


cause popularity wise barbarian and sorc are the tops, thats why they are in the second time.

[Omnicide]

Nothing to them is based on popularity. It's about how successful the necromancer was at doing its job....killing monsters and bosses. Out of all the classes, it's undoubtedly easiest with the necro. It had no glaring weaknesses that couldn't be covered.

The reason the barbarian made a comeback was because they feel they could really improve him...which they did with ranged attacks and ones that are AoE attacks...the two things the D2 barb SORELY needed.

[Gamer7]

well the witch doctor has necro moves plus nature moves from whats relased.



the undead and curses-but they call them diseases.....are stricly necromancer territory if u ask me. How could they make another Zombie Summoner Class?? wtf

[Omnicide]

Eh...the WD might have similarities, but it has a personality all its own.

The only summon we've seen is the mongrel...and those look like patchwork dogs or something. Neither zombie or undead.

The only disease we saw was the locust swarm. It reminds me of rabies more than anything.

The only pure zombie thing is the wall.

The curses are undoubtedly from the necro...but I think they call it something like mind control.

But....the WD does use fire bomb...so...it's hard to say WHAT the WD specializes in at this point.

[Gamer7]

well from what little they have shown...to how much its a necromicon rip off is a pretty high percent.

SO FAR im gonna miss the undead characters all together and maybe go a Guy Wizard. or a chick barb.. but im not that excited about either.

Theres no way i can go from necromancer...to .crappier version of necromancer..thats gonna have more cutscenes and kick butt...nope not gonna happen. ..maybe if i make it a chick...but still....

[Omnicide]

I've heard all the complaining from necro fanatics. To me it just sounds like *****ing at something new.

Probably what people said when Blizzard announced the characters for D2.

To me, the WD can be as much druid as it is a necro...but I say he's his own thing...that's why we're looking at it like a mix.

*shrugs* I see no point in complaining about them taking out a character. Granted...I got my barbs back...but I would have just as happily gone to any other melee character...unless the pally somehow made it...

[Gamer7]

i think i know where the story is headed a little anyway..

now that the worldstone is broken there is nothing hampering the power of the "humans" born with power from the birthing between that Vain Angel guy and Lillith.

So they are gonna get all powerful and crap.... i dunno something in that direction...just pissed that Jungle shaman is gonna get one up over the Necromicon. more that i think about it i dont mind making a female witch doctor to be his bride. lol... or something connected to him.

i cant really think of any original characters they can make that havent been in a nother RPG. as far as the other classes go.

[Omnicide]

Um....I highly doubt that's how it is. ._.;

[Fignuts]

the witch doctor seems like a rip off of the necromancer in my opinion. They should have kept the necro and just revamped and improved upon him. Necromancer could create zombies, fly swarms, etc. anything that has to do with death should be his territory.

I am super dissapointed in D3 not having a necromancer. where the EFF are my skeleton effin archers?!?!?!

maybe they will have necros in the expansion pack since they know dingleberrys like me will buy it.

[Omnicide]

Jesus you people just keep on crying about this, don't you?

[Fignuts]

I always wanted skeleton archers in diablo2 for the necro that would be sweet. What would be even more awesome is if you could keep skeletons from game to game like with the Iron Golem, and customize their gear like a merc!

I just thought of that right now and its already more awesome than witch doctors.

to omnicide: lol

[Omnicide]

Prove my point more. :'D

[Fignuts]

all in jest omni haha.

i see you are from bangor dude I spent a lot of time there as a kid. i love bangor and bar harbor!

[Omnicide]

Eh....Bangor is boring unless you're downtown...other than that it's a huge spread out area of boring.

Bar Harbor...I haven't been anywhere but downtown there so I can't really say as a whole.

As long as it's no Lewiston/Auburn.

[SexdUp]

Necromancer was taken out because it was TOO successful in Diablo 2. Necro supporters seriously take the With Docter too anal for their own good.

Not really.

Big letters=Sure to be read. As it's very well proven.

I'm pretty sure no one working on D3 came out and said "Necros are gone bcu dey iz g0dlee". I don't see that as a valid "excuse".

[Omnicide]

One of the earliest Blizzcasts talked about it. What'shisface in charge of production said the necro was a victim of his own success...thus they couldn't really find a way to improve him like they did with the barb. That's why they didn't put him in D3.

Try again.

[SexdUp]

One of the earliest Blizzcasts talked about it. What'shisface in charge of production said the necro was a victim of his own success...thus they couldn't really find a way to improve him like they did with the barb. That's why they didn't put him in D3.

Try again.

That seems like a really stupid reason. I mean, I don't hate the Witch Doctor--in fact outside of PvP, I'd actually prefer it since it's a fresh start. I don't see it being viable with the Necro AND W.D. so I guess they made the right move though.

[Omnicide]

I still think people are judging too early.

Also...I've seen some skill lists for the WD/barb/wizard. There's a ****ton. ._.;

[SexdUp]

I still think people are judging too early.

Also...I've seen some skill lists for the WD/barb/wizard. There's a ****ton. ._.;

I can't wait lol. There's some rumors going around that it'll be out by Christmas but I don't believe it. We can only hope ^^

[skummi]

Well the WD skills seems to much like a necro...
the whole curse thing is so much like a necro.. maybe they could do it with some kind of voodoo doll to make it its own...
zombie wall GREAT IDEAR just wrong char...
and the whole pleagure thing okey Im 50/50 if its WD or necro...
summons is new and great thats a WD thing... but add fetish to the list and I would die laugthing HAHA ^^
FIREBALL NICE!!! that is great add for this class...

Well WD is a great idear even though necro was my favor class... the thing is it reminds to much like necro... curse... summons... plauge=poison....... only real thing that is differens is bone and fire....
I would just see a WD that don't look a lot like necro cause if that happen a future EXP will not be able to contain a necro class :(

[Omnicide]

I can't wait lol. There's some rumors going around that it'll be out by Christmas but I don't believe it. We can only hope ^^Doubt it...especially with SC2 coming out sometime this year (possible rumor?). It wouldn't make sense since you'd have competing games...thus players having to make a choice...and I don't think Blizzard is dumb enough to do that.

@skummi...Locust Swarm works more like Rabies than it does any of the poison spells. It "poisons" your enemies and it spreads to any nearby...and with no way to really cure it. i.e. Rabies.

The curse deal I can see...but it seems the curses work more on an AI poit of view than it does helping your summons, like before. It seems this time around they're having it so the WD will help out the summons via the attack spells rather than curses....which is pretty nifty if you think about it. Also...there's only been one summon shown...the zombie mutt looking things. Zombie Wall works for a witch doctor just as well as it can a necro. O_o And according to where I see people listing skills for the WD...the brackets are "Plague", "Spirit" and "Voodoo", with Horrify (terror) being in the Voodoo section (Which makes sense since it's a giant ghost voodoo guy scaring them) and Mass Confusion "Confuse" being with Spirit.

I'm agreeing with a lot of people that the WD is seeming more and more like a druid/necro combo. With a feel all its own at the same time.

[skummi]

Well I don't really see it as an druid any way I see it more like nature version of a necro whicht is quit cool like zombie animals or something like that^^

the zwarm is not like rabbies-- rabbies is a pleagua while this is little inseckts that eats people up just I see it like poison... (the way it acts)

the animation with a big voodoo guy is nice and really make it terrifiring.
but still I SOOO MUCH wanna see some kind of skill with a voodoo doll OH YEA!...

only mongrel is sad... I SO MUCH HOPE FOR A FETISH SUMMON YAY:D

still I really think they have to do something for make it outstanding from the necro.. and the druid if needed(just not my opion)

[Omnicide]

The druid was a bit of a natural version of the necro. O_o

Spirits in place of curses...the elemental skills in place of poison and bone and the summons were still summons...except they didn't need corpses...kind of like the mongrels on the WD.

The Swarm isn't like Poison Dagger/Explosion/or Nova even less, if you want to think like that. Rabies is much more viable to describe it than normal poison.

I doubt there'll be a fetish summon...but then again the WD is the class that doesn't have a whole lot of skills announced yet.

It already does stand out from the necro...just people are unwilling to move on.

[skummi]

Im just saying how I feel about it and thats its too much like a necro still... But i still like the WD class...

Ohh and the fetish fits good for the WD cause they are both from the jungels in kuras or something like that plus thats totally VOODOO skrunkenhead and all that stuff ^^