View Full Version : New Wizard Conceptart - Dual Wielding
Ouroboros
24-08-2009, 05:25
Didn't know the Wiz could dual-wield. There's some speculation on the official D3 forums that this could be the female monk..I definately think its the wizzy. So can anyone confirm the dual-weilding because that opens up bzillion possibilities of magic/melee combinatins builds :nod:
http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/1571/blizzconscreen151.jpg
Source: http://www.gamespot.com/images/6215414/gamespots-live-photo-stream-blizzcon-2009/151/?feature=1&full_size=1
Staff/Sword? Channeling some Gandalf there...
Does the wizard have dots on her forehead? It could be an early artwork of female monk possibly?
stillman
24-08-2009, 12:26
I figure it could be the wizard because she is using ice and what looks like electricity. Then again, her face looks less Asain than the wizard. Maybe they are just magic weapons held by female monk.
Anyway, if she can dual wield then maybe everyone can dual wield too!
I figure it could be the wizard because she is using ice and what looks like electricity. Then again, her face looks less Asain than the wizard. Maybe they are just magic weapons held by female monk.
Anyway, if she can dual wield then maybe everyone can dual wield too!
Really?! And here I was thinking if it was made to look any more stereotypically Asian, it would be on par with those old Yellow Peril cartoons...
It's not exactly dual wielding, she's using one of the wizard only orb offhand items. If you can look closely at the staff's head, you can see a barely visible orb-like thing amongst the magic glow.
Hopefully there's some Gandalf-like melee and magic combinations the wizard can learn using both weapon and orb.
Not to dampen everyone's excitedness but I wouldn't take this as convincing evidence. After all, it's a stylized poster meant to generate hype and interest in the Wizard more than to display in-game content. I mean, you wouldn't cite this poster as evidence for there being items looking exactly like those above, surely?
melianor
25-08-2009, 10:32
The poster is great, but other than that it does not tell me that the wizard is infact dual-wielding :)
stillman
25-08-2009, 14:43
Check out her footwear. Looks like ninja, so that means she is monk.
Wait, since when are heavy-looking boots with flaps ninja equipment? Even for a parody on fridge logic that was a stretch.
slex lord of hatred
25-08-2009, 16:10
the crown leads me to blieve its wizard. after all she does have crowns and tiara's.
ancalagon
25-08-2009, 16:12
(1) Amazing concept art.
(2) Is there more concept art you can share? Or from where did you get this? (Perhaps PM link pls)
(3) It cant be the female wizard, we've seen her look and its totally different.
(4) She's the female monk if I had to go for female wizard vs female monk, but she could be some other NPC.
(5) New class - They wouldnt do that, release its concept art now. And new class is 99% a ranged class.
Runestar
25-08-2009, 16:33
Considering that she is wielding the staff 1-handed, I would see it more as artistic license, rather than any indication of some new mechanic in D3.
Can't quite picture a wizard dual-wielding staves and stacking +skill modifiers...:scratchchin:
(3) It cant be the female wizard, we've seen her look and its totally different.
(4) She's the female monk if I had to go for female wizard vs female monk, but she could be some other NPC.
http://www.sonsofthestorm.com/
Blizzard now has 8 major artists. It looks close enough. Next, this picture lacks "holy" colors or the eastern european/asian mix of clothing. Lastly, it utilizes arcane and ice cues. It's 150% a picture of the Wizard.
ancalagon
25-08-2009, 17:40
http://www.sonsofthestorm.com/
Blizzard now has 8 major artists. It looks close enough. Next, this picture lacks "holy" colors or the eastern european/asian mix of clothing. Lastly, it utilizes arcane and ice cues. It's 150% a picture of the Wizard.
There's the asian mix of clothing for sure, the dragon symbols to go with it, and the ASIAN FACE!!!!!
Also, thats ice and lightning (I think its not arcane at least) probably from weapon mods, like the Frost and Lightning enchanted Axes of the Barbarian in the 2008 WWI gameplay.
Holy colors .... The monk doesnt look very holy or colorful dressed up the way he is. Those holy colors are emitted by his spells, if anything.
Sonolegolas
25-08-2009, 19:08
I wouldnt call that dual wield. Rather a charm, like Guild wars' mage character that wields a wand in his weapon slot and a charm in his shield slot for increased mana/life etc.
There's the asian mix of clothing for sure, the dragon symbols to go with it, and the ASIAN FACE!!!!!
That's because the Wizard is Asian... And the Monk is not... Look at Monk's face in detail.
knightmawko
26-08-2009, 02:41
I can tell you right now it is not a Monk. It has a frost enchanted sword and a flaming staff as well as severl glowing scrolls. But concept art has nothing to do with gameplay so really this means nothing.
It seems somehow familiar...
Magical human female caster, wielding two elements, wearing cloth, on a backdrop, promoting a blizzard game.
I know!
http://www.freakygaming.com/gallery/game_wallpapers/world_of_warcraft/human_mage.jpg
It's clearly the female monk, if you look at the cinematic trailer for the female wizard you'll see that there is no face paint. Not only that but if you erad the male monk description on Blizzard's D3 site you'll see:
Then, recognition struck me: upon his forehead he had a tattoo of two red dots, one larger than the other. As any informed student of the peoples and cultures of this world must also realize, this man was one of the monks of Ivgorod, the secretive and reclusive holy warriors of the country.
Obviously the female doesn't have just 2 red dots, but probably male and female monks have different face paintings.
As for the cold/lighting enchantments on the sword/staff, Blizzard already said that weapons will be made to look more like what their enchantments give them. As such the sword much be at least a blue sword with added cold damage and the staff has added llightning damage. Just look at the Barbarian gameplay video, he has a hammer that is burning in that one.
Knight_Wolf
29-08-2009, 13:34
Nice concept art indeed, but regardless of that being the female monk or the female wizard or whatever (i'm more leaning towards female monk becasue of the staff and the face paint, not to mention the clothing is quite differernt from wizard clothes except maybe the shoulders and Tiara) it is already a fact that the Wizard can dual wield items with Orbs (at least for now)
Go watch the Wizard gameplay from Blizzcon (one with the interface showing) and you will see clearly the wizard equipping an orb and a sword.
Wizards can dual wield weapons but it seems only with magical items like orbs in one hand unlike barbs who can dual wield any 1h weapons.
Also, like many said, she has a staff (like the male monk) and the both the sword and staff only look like enchanted weapons (i.e no magic spells involved)
AngelicFaces
29-08-2009, 15:49
Indeed a wizard, looks very familiar to the one shown in the D3 panel video http://www.gamespot.com/news/6216012.html?part=rss&tag=gs_news&subj=6216012 at 8:40
ancalagon
29-08-2009, 19:10
I can tell you right now it is not a Monk. It has a frost enchanted sword and a flaming staff as well as severl glowing scrolls. But concept art has nothing to do with gameplay so really this means nothing.
Irrelevant. Barbarians weapons were cold light and fire enchanted in WWI demo.
Plus as far as we know, there is no enchant like abilities in D3 to imbue weapons with elements.
It's clearly the female monk, if you look at the cinematic trailer for the female wizard you'll see that there is no face paint. Not only that but if you erad the male monk description on Blizzard's D3 site you'll see
http://classic.battle.net/diablo2exp/classes/sorceress.shtml
Just because the concept art isn't identical to the game model doesn't mean it magically becomes something else. The Monk woman will look European, just like the Monk from a city with an affix of 'gorod.' (a clear Slavic nomenclature allusion.)
ancalagon
30-08-2009, 00:30
http://classic.battle.net/diablo2exp/classes/sorceress.shtml
Just because the concept art isn't identical to the game model doesn't mean it magically becomes something else. The Monk woman will look European, just like the Monk from a city with an affix of 'gorod.' (a clear Slavic nomenclature allusion.)
OMG I remember that horrible art for the classes on each of their pages.
Of course you might be right, it is most probably a wizard, and its true the male monk doesnt look Asian at all ... I cant remember what he reminds me of, not exactly European either
Pretty sure it's wizard concept art, and awesome concept art at that with that sword and staff/offhand wand. I just hope you can build more melee oriented builds with the wizard in D3, granted you could build melee-sorcs in D2 but you had to be rich as a troll to pull it off...
Also the monks are more of hand to hand style character, altho he is wielding a staff in the trailers, but swords doesn't fit very well for me with the monk.
/end of overanalyzing awesome concept art that is probably mostly meant to be awesome. :)
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