April Fool's Alert: New Diablo III class revealed

April Fool's Alert: New Diablo III class revealed - the Archivist

Posted Apr 1st 2009 2:30PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Culture, RPG, Screenshots, Diablo III

Blizzard always seems to get into the April Fool's Day spirit and the 2009 edition is proving to be no exception. The official web site for their long awaited action-RPG sequel Diablo III "reveals" an all new playable class for the game: The librarian . . . er, make that the Archivist.

The page goes into detail about the new class, complete with gameplay footage via Flash-based movies moving showing the libr . . . er, Archivist doing his thing against enemies with spells like Shush and the Quest Bolt. Screenshots show other abilities such as "Book Vision" and the character's Radial Dialogue Tree. It's not the best character in the world but I'm sure we could work with it if Blizzard decides to make this joke a reality.

Gallery: Diablo III

Tags: april-fools, april-fools-09, april-fools-day, april-fools-joke, blizzard, blizzard-entertainment, diablo-3, diablo-iii

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Awesome, Blizzard always does great April Fools jokes. Yah we got rick rolled by RedRyder over at Rohan: Blood Feud with this one: http://forum.playrohan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=47115Posted at 5:16PM on Apr 1st 2009 by WildCard

That's not being rick rolled... Even if you refer to roll'n as replacing a video with something else. That's just a regular prank :P

Aside from that, I think a character like this would be pretty sweet! I mean, common, all fantasy RPG's have the cliche characters, why not something crazy like this?Posted at 11:14PM on Apr 1st 2009 by Gripen40k