Blizzard Convention 09: Diablo 3 New Class Revealed

*WARNING* There is an actual footage of the gameplay. Kindly scroll down till the end and load it while reading. Thanks.

After announcing Starcraft 2 will be arriving on early 2010. I don't feel surprise, Blizzard is being Blizzard, they will always have bloody good reasons to delay a game. We had waited for almost 8 years, don't really have much to lose anymore ain't we?.

Demon bashing galore, Diablo 3, announced it's fourth class. Tribal Witch Doctors and mystical oriental Wizards had been introduced almost a year go, we've seen how they decapitate, dissect, dismember with aspiring destructive magics and brutal violent strength.

Before we go deeper, this class emphasizes on speed over strength. They rely on their knuckles and kicks, deadly combos and flashy martial arts moves. Once again, we will have a chance to fulfill our needs of saving The Sanctuary with nothing but bare hands...and a bald head.

Monk
Introduction
First impression.

What do players really care about is the character itself, which is the image and the skill trees. The image of the monk, which was wearing large beads around the neck and red dots on the forehead, perfectly portrayed it as a wandering monk or an outcast. Not to mention, the nicely tone muscles and the masochistic beard.

Automatically, without hesitant, we ruled this character as melee when we first saw him.

The character later position itself as a tough fighter, however, different from the Barbarian. Barbarian is a heavy tank that crushes everything with overkill firepower, while the Monk is like a versatile vehicle that can take out any target with swift and quick maneuvers.
Combo system was mentioned during the convention, just like the previous Diablo II, Assassin, the Monk could execute combo moves but not in the same way as the Assassin.

Skills and Moves

"The more explosions there are, the better." - Blizzard dev team
One word to describe the Monk's moves and styles. Flashy.
Exploding palm? Way of the Hundred Fist? Crippling Wave? A skills that deflects fireball if it was activated? What more could you ask for?

Do a huge step in.

Land a barrage of fists into the enemy’s face.

There was one move called Seven-Sided Strike that the monk could knock the living(or the dead) lights out of everyone(or demonic entities). The skills resembles the overused skill called Chain Lighting.

So, were they capable of striking lighting out of their first you ask? No, don't be silly. The only difference between Chain Lighting and Seven Sided Kick was you were the lighting.

In other words, in a split second once the skill was activated. He vanished into thin air, striking multiple enemies randomly with blinding speed.

Be rejoiced as the Monk was capable of ripping and tearing out demonic hearts and limbs of your enemies in matter of seconds. Exploding Palm, which was self explained, allows the Monk to strike his enemies' vitals, causing them to explode in seconds and dealing damage to other nearby enemies.

Another remarkable display from the Monk is a skill known as Impenetrable Wall. The Monk spins and rotates his staff forming a round barrier that can deflect any incoming missiles back to it's castor. I wonder if it can deflect arrows.

Ironically it strikes the resemblance of a Flamethrower. Heh.

A fantastic new class to begin with. Bare knuckles has always been one of the melees' player favorite. It shows a sense of manly masochistic when you are punching. What is better than punching hellish demonic beings with your fist? Watch the videos that I had uploaded for you guys. Enjoy. It might take a while to load.

And this is the end of the introduction of the new class. Game On!