Blood Knight and Tempest walked so the Spiritborn could run. For the first time in over a decade, Blizzard is adding an entirely new class to a mainline Diablo game. And according to Diablo’s franchise manager, this new playable archetype wouldn’t have been possible if the series mobile game, , didn’t prove players were ready for such a bold expansion on the existing lore.
The are the biggest addition included in upcoming paid expansion, . While Blizzard hasn’t revealed much about this mysterious new class, we do know that the Spiritborn are warriors who seem native to the Nahantu region, the setting of the upcoming DLC set to drop later this fall. Blizzard will give a full breakdown of this new class during a Diablo livestream on July 18.
This week, however, Diablo boss Rod Fergusson told that the Spiritborn may have been scrapped if players hadn’t immediately embraced some of the new classes introduced in Diablo’s iOS and Android spinoff. “I was more nervous when we did the Blood Knight for ,” Fergusson said. “When I saw how the Blood Knight went over, I was like, ‘Oh, OK.
’ People are open to new ideas and new ways of doing this. And then we released the Tempest, and the Tempest was hugely successful too.” Last summer, Blizzard announced that the , a gothic vampire race with red eyes, black veins, and a fashion sense that wouldn’t be out of place in a Castlevania game, was the newest class being added to .
Before the Blood Knight, the last time Bli.