About this new class Spiritborn

[Ampuj4]

It's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ horrible. I mean Horrible.

Yep you have actually pretty good core idea of class. The basic idea resembles me off Apocalypto style mayan warrior. Which could be actually very cool and fit truly very well on diablo style lore.

But here are negatives that kills it for me:

THOSE FREAKING SPIRITS. Specially that GORILLA. WTF you have freaking class and lore that is based on south america and then you add GORILLA FREAKING GORILLA. GORILLAS FROM AFRICA at lore that is basically 100% based on south american continent rather than AFRICA.

Is this some freaking Woke check box again?!?!?!?!?!

Not to mention that gorilla model that is obviously ripped out of from OVERWATCH. Another failed blizzard woke title. I mean WTF BLIZZARD

And i didn't even mention the others like centipede?!?!?!?.

Only that i accepted was that jaguar.

Ill put it simple. If you make character based on maya mythology use proper spirit animals like: Jaguar, eagle,Snake or deer

If you wanna make character based on DE-I Africa use those gorillas, lions hyenas, zebras what ever and make all characters black just to be safe that you check every possible DE-I checkbox.

Thank you

[Vences]

"Each spirit guardian takes inspiration from different martial arts from around the world."

[Morkonan]

Originally posted by Ampuj4:

It's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ horrible. I mean Horrible.

Yep you have actually pretty good core idea of class. The basic idea resembles me off Apocalypto style mayan warrior. Which could be actually very cool and fit truly very well on diablo style lore.

But here are negatives that kills it for me:

THOSE FREAKING SPIRITS. Specially that GORILLA. WTF you have freaking class and lore that is based on south america and then you add GORILLA FREAKING GORILLA. GORILLAS FROM AFRICA at lore that is basically 100% based on south american continent rather than AFRICA.
...

They're really not put forward like that. They're more like Spirit Beings that exist because of belief.

In Diablo 2, there many forms of Ape/Monkey in Kurast and surrounds, which had a distinctive Mayan feel to it. So... "lore-wise" it's not out-of-bounds, either.

The new class, Spiritborn, seems to be very similar in gameplay to the Diablo 3 Monk class.

They're... Kung-Foo Mayan Druid Monks. I guess.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNySRe690Rg

The thing is, it does things with "Spirits" that the current Diablo 4 Druid should have done, but doesn't... I guess they wanted a deeper dive into animism or something with their "jungle" theme.

Some of the functions of some of the abilities seem very "D3 Witchdoctor" like.

PS: I guess you don't work there if you don't wear a t-shirt with those bicep-enhancing tighter arms, huh? I'm sure most of the employees have their parent's permission.

PPS: To sum - It's very much like the Diablo 3 Monk in its play, at least in how certain Monk skills/builds were played. Though, the Monk's defensive/buff-bot role didn't appear. We'll have to see if it can be played like that.

[crzyfsh123]

Why the grrrrilla hate?

[moody]

I don't like it either.

[Thel]

Originally posted by Ampuj4:

It's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ horrible. I mean Horrible.

Yep you have actually pretty good core idea of class. The basic idea resembles me off Apocalypto style mayan warrior. Which could be actually very cool and fit truly very well on diablo style lore.

But here are negatives that kills it for me:

THOSE FREAKING SPIRITS. Specially that GORILLA. WTF you have freaking class and lore that is based on south america and then you add GORILLA FREAKING GORILLA. GORILLAS FROM AFRICA at lore that is basically 100% based on south american continent rather than AFRICA.

Is this some freaking Woke check box again?!?!?!?!?!

Not to mention that gorilla model that is obviously ripped out of from OVERWATCH. Another failed blizzard woke title. I mean WTF BLIZZARD

And i didn't even mention the others like centipede?!?!?!?.

Only that i accepted was that jaguar.

Ill put it simple. If you make character based on maya mythology use proper spirit animals like: Jaguar, eagle,Snake or deer

If you wanna make character based on DE-I Africa use those gorillas, lions hyenas, zebras what ever and make all characters black just to be safe that you check every possible DE-I checkbox.

Thank you

You already know the answer, yes it's a woke checkbox. They have a tool used at Blizzard that chooses Race, Gender, Sexual orientation of all new characters/classes etc and the themes surrounding them. Then makes choices based on thier twisted view of 'victims.'

No way Blizz was going to release a White/Christian themed character like Paladin. And when they do it won't be anywhere near European themed.

[samcharles77]

Maybe they made the gorilla in memory of Harambe.

[Tazz]

it not new class it an old class from D3 it a Monk they only added that spirit animal with it...can you see the play style it a melee...when we talking about jungle it must be arrow with poison or dark shadow they a all range attack 70% jungle style is range attack only 30% is melee but this Spiritborn is 100% melee style...it a monk then...they just copy and patch not new class actually

[TheFibrewire]

they should have committed to full monk, instead of this. This class looks like it has not identity and it's made from mish mash of ideas but nothing coming together.

[IchigoMait]

You forgot their world is not earth, it's a fantasy.
They used any and all jungle themes with made up martial arts.

Doesn't matter what you want or believe.

[geecrumb]

I didnt know that the Diablo games are playing in Africa or South America. When europe class btw? Beer drinking barb maybe?

[Morkonan]

Originally posted by TheFibrewire:

they should have committed to full monk, instead of this. This class looks like it has not identity and it's made from mish mash of ideas but nothing coming together.

They obviously wanted "new."

But, to get that, they thought copying a previous design and gameplay would do the trick, just if they sprinkled something different on top of it.

"Let's just paint it like a witchdoctor jungle drood. It'll be cheaper than buying skins from Apex Legends, lol."

"U R JEENEEYOOS!"

PS: I'll reserve judgement until I play it. But, the melee gameplay looks very much like a D3 Monk's. I liked D3's Monk, just not the button-spam-weaving needed to really make use of them.

[crzyfsh123]

Originally posted by Ailith Twinning:

Wow this is a racist community XD

You are the one race baiting.

[ಠ_ಠ]

Huh. I didn't know that Sanctuary was on Earth.

[VhagarTheLastOne]

African Gorilla is woke? Really bro.

[Letobrick]

Originally posted by ಠ_ಠ:

Huh. I didn't know that Sanctuary was on Earth. :hammerheadsnark:

My thoughts exactly. Haters always seem to find some reason to hate. Now it seems to be all about some imaginary anti-DEI/woke crusade where none of those factors exists, because guess what? This game doesn't take place on earth nor should it expected to be based exactly on actual earth history, mythology, lore or otherwise.