I don't know about you guys...

[HRP]

...but I find the Witch Doctor to be pretty creepy. He's got a mean look on his face as if he knows a lot of ways to torture and/or kill anything that crosses his path. He's hunched over, decked out in bones and skulls and feathers from god knows what kind of animals and he can spew flesh-eating locusts that devour demons in seconds.

[StreetShark]

Considering in real life Witchdoctors actually do the work of Demons, it makes zero sense to have a witchdoctor as a character battling demons in Diablo3. At least the necromancer had control of the underworld, whereas the Witchdoctor is just a pawn in the real world.

[UnderAge]

The witchdoc is not replacing the necromancer, it has already been said by a blizzard employee

[Thrandir]

The witchdoc is not replacing the necromancer, it has already been said by a blizzard employee

Thank Trag'Oul for that!

Where/when was that confirmed, do you know?

[Sequitur]

I was looking at the classes page, on the D3 site. When you click him, and he walks up, it almost looks like he has Parkinsons's Disease, or some kind of mental instability trying to escape.

Creepy, indeed. And cool..

[smartdot]

Originally Posted by StreetShark

Considering in real life Witchdoctors actually do the work of Demons, it makes zero sense to have a witchdoctor as a character battling demons in Diablo3. At least the necromancer had control of the underworld, whereas the Witchdoctor is just a pawn in the real world.

by saying there are Real Life WD's serving demons, you imply there are real demons, then go on to say a game makes zero sense.... *pff*

[UnderAge]

Yeah here is the link too the interview I read.

"The witch doctor, on the other hand, seems to be more of a caster with a pet-control ability. Jay Wilson, a lead designer on Diablo III, said the witch doctor is not a replacement for Diablo II's necromancer."

http://pc.ign.com/articles/885/885128p1.html

[KiLLJOi]

I really do not like his hunched figure so i'm considering the female WD instead

[The Italian Oak]

Originally Posted by smartdot

by saying there are Real Life WD's serving demons, you imply there are real demons, then go on to say a game makes zero sense.... *pff*

lol you guys are too much

[Queen Mebd]

Originally Posted by StreetShark

Considering in real life Witchdoctors actually do the work of Demons, it makes zero sense to have a witchdoctor as a character battling demons in Diablo3. At least the necromancer had control of the underworld, whereas the Witchdoctor is just a pawn in the real world.

Really? Folklore holds that witch doctors in England in the late nineteenth century actually exorcised evil spirits, and in southern Africa (in Zulu communities for example) they are traditionally healers and counselors that aid ailing mind, bodies, souls, and even communities.

Originally Posted by KiLLJOi

I really do not like his hunched figure so i'm considering the female WD instead

Eh, he isn't old and pasty and doesn't have a mullet; that's enough for me.