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Blizzard Shows Off Diablo III Archivist Class, WoW Dance-Off
It's been a busy day for the folks at Blizzard, who have released major announcements for several different games. The next Diablo III class has arrived: the Archivist. Despite their frail appearance and hunched, labored movement, they are quite deft at launching Quest Bolts at nearby foes, or conjuring a whirling Lore-nado of spinning books. Loud monsters can be silenced with a devastating Shush attack. Blizzard also put Starcraft II's latest unit on display, the Terra-Tron, which is a giant, robot uber-weapon assembled from the buildings in your base. Finally, for World of Warcraft they announced two features that have been requested by players for years: a battle of dances, where you can show off your avatar's hippest moves, and the ability to 'p1mp' your mounts. (Not sure exactly what that means, since I don't speak elvish, but there's a Nightsaber with a cannon — holy crap!)
I get a completely different image from "pimping a mount" than putting a cannon on a horse .
... than to mount your pimp. Unless you are into that sort of thing.
Death looks every man in the face. All any man can do is look back and smile. - Marcus Aurelius
No wonder Blizzard games take so long to ship. Get back to work you hippies!
Slashdot is kind of like Playboy; we aren't here to read the articles.
The Archivist seems to be a slow but powerful character. From the video his spells are devastating to the individual character but he himself is weak. It looks as though he may be able to use different canes to perhaps make him faster, unsure.
I also took note of the new HUD and how delicious it looks. Look at the Mana graphic!
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owned by Cesar Millan.
He is a very powerful magician too.
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All this hype around D3 is getting on my nerves. If D3 comes out before SC2 I'm boycotting Blizzard games I understand SC2 has to be sports worthy but still...10+ years?
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's limits" - Albert Einstein
make the bad man stop.
I'm sooooo ready for April 1 to be over. Midnight in which timezone counts as the terminator for this boring ass day on slashot????????????????
I was definitely getting a Diablo 1 Sorcerer vibe with the Quest bolt sounding and moving almost exactly like the D1 fire bolt spell. It'll have more action and better graphics but it certainly appears to fit with the Diablo style, much more so then the first gameplay vids. Perhaps they took the fan criticism to heart =)
There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order. Starting now.
Prozac.
Ummmm.... Hitler IS a goddamn laugh riot.
The Internet was pretty much built off of Hitler jokes.
I'm gonna hafta half-agree here. Maybe not with the whole "complete insanity" part, but for god's sake... this shit is REALLY annoying at this point. It's April 2nd somewhere; let's just call it a day on the stupid April Fools BS.
What about it?
Let me guess, you're just picking a psychoactive drug out of your ass without any understanding of what it does or the side effects. Here's a hint: it typically wouldn't help with ranting lunatics.
Cancer for you and your family, now - hopefully one that's both quick AND painful.
Enough already. Its April Fools Day, we get it, you can stop now.
Now, don't you wish you wished for a big titted blond bikini model, a private jet, and a hundred million dollars?
Too late! Bwahahahahahahahah!
here is an explanation of April Fools:
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the archivist class actually sounds pretty cool - I'm still eager to try out the witchdoctor.
Do I get my achievement yet?
Fuck these terrible April Fool's day articles. Slashdot, the rule is one prank a year on April 1st. Spamming the front pages with these shitty unfunny useless articles makes me wish Conficker had actually taken down the internet today.
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Am I the only one who wishes the Terra-tron was a real unit?
from the archivist's dialog wheel:
"Test me and I will chronicle your pain"
That's just begging to be my sig.
More music, fewer hits
Actually Prozac is prescribed for people who need to calm the fuck down, mr. "Oh look at me, I'm a badass on the Internet, lulerskate"
No it's not; it's indicated for people with depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, and panic disorder. If it's prescribed for people who "need to calm the fuck down", it's an off-label use by a doctor who doesn't know shit about what he's prescribing.
And I'm not a badass on the internet; I'm a badass everywhere in life - I'd just as soon wish cancer on you and your family in person as over the intertubes.
"Badass" is one word for your shoot-from-the-lip behavior. Others more accurately describe your lack of conscious thought.
The most swashbuckling arthritic educated Pirate/Archivist on the high seas. The eye patch doesn't stop him from his intense studying or crabby librarian sushing, only from the stereoscopic vision necessary to evade the dungeons many perils. With his colorful garments and handcrafted cane, he is sure to be the smash hit of the collectible figurine world and our favorite new DIII character.
Yes, my young man, you've totally won this battle with a random internet jackass. My lack of conscious thought is deep and unparalleled, and you good sir, are naught but a font of unadulterated wisdom from which mankind would do well to drink in deep draughts, for in you solely may his insatiable thirst for some meaning above the quotidian be slaked.
Please congratulate yourself, my good man, on a hard won victory; please, take several hours - days, even - to feel buoyed by your indubitable superiority, your wit, your charm, your education. The sheer lightness and wonder of your facticity must be unbearable.
Oblig.
The archivists bread and butter attack against creatures younger than him is a constant barrage of "Get off my lawn!", strangely effective against herds of halberd wielding bovines.
I'm now an april fool!
You know, there is a difference between trolling and pointing out the flaws in your reasoning. Just saying.
In related news, D&D is also getting new class, the Witchaloks, designed by the Penny Arcade crew.
People who like this sort of sig will find this the sort of sig they like.
How can you show us something awesome and then say "ha ha just kidding"? Jokes are meant for absurd things. This was just a cock tease.
You need to work on your sarcasm. It lacks conviction.
PImp my pussy baby..... pussy cat from darnassus that is :p
...was the best part of my day. Of course, that's just because they said "Thatmushroom is as big as a Cadillac!"
That's right, I was just called morbidly obese by Blizzard. And it was awesome.
You zap the moderators with a wand of humor! The moderators resist!
Maybe if he took some Prozac, he'd be a bit less panicy and calm down some. Of course, he'd probably quit obsessing over April Fool stories, so we wouldn't get to see the results.
The Mice, Shall Click...
They put a lot of work into this April Fools joke.. Made videos and such, wow. If this isn't a joke, it's the most stupid class ever. A Librarian??? C'mon now.
I could really get into an archivist character, actually. Playing Diablo 1 as a wizard, nothing was more exciting than finding a library room. (New spells, yay!)
For great justice.
I pulled this out of my ass in 10 seconds girth.
gubermint bailout? gay man tits blowhole? gigabit bitchslap?
your mom?
Kid, I just bothered to read your other response to me; based on that, I can say pretty confidently on that basis, you're really not qualified to judge conviction, sincerity, or experience in anything.
Sorry I picked on you; it's hard to tell the earnest kids from the pure assholes.
OK, that statement makes no sense. Or should I say even less sense than your other statements.
I'd ask you to explain why you put me on your friends list, but I'm really afraid of the answer. Go bother somebody who cares.
Oh wait, you don't believe anybody cares. So please kill yourself, there's a nice fellow.