by Whitney "Neinball" Fairchild - 9 years ago     show comments

We’ve had some early details flowing in from the Blizzcon show floor from people getting a jump on the new Demo.

So far here is what we’ve learned:

General

New Grift tile set in the frozen ruins of Sescheron, the ancient Barbarian capital that was destroyed by Baal during the events of D2: LoD.

New Rift Guardian, Hamelin the Rat King. Uses various poison attacks and summons tons of smaller rats.

New Treasure Goblins. Purple goblins drop Blood Shards. There are also red and silver colored goblins but their specialties are still unknown right now.

Demon Hunter

New Set focused on Multi-shot. Set bonuses cause Hatred Spenders to generate 2 Discipline and fire additional rockets when using Multishot. Flux has commented on getting regular 55mil crits with MS, not sure if that’s part of the set or the gear on the DH.

[Update] 2-Piece makes your Hatred Generators generate 2 Discipline

[Update] 4-Piece makes the DH take 20% less damage from enemies within 40 yards.

[Update] 6-Piece adds 10% more damage to Hatred Generators or Multishot for every point of discipline you have.

Wizard

New Set focused on Slow Time.

2-Piece causes Arcane Orb, Energy Twister, Magic Missile, and Shock Pulse to reduce the cooldown on Slow Time by 1 sec.

4-Piece causes Slow Time to inflict 1250% damage every second to enemies.

6-Piece Arcane Orb, Energy Twister, Magic Missile, and Shock Pulse deal 500% more damage to enemies affected by Slow Time.

New item – Crown of the Primus causes Slow Time to gain the effects of all runes.

Monks

Gungdo Gear has a new property that caused Exploding Palm to apply Exploding Palm to all enemies hit by its explosion.

[Update] Sunwuko set got some changes:

2-Piece Casting Cyclone Strike, Exploding Palm, Lashing Tail Kick, Tempest Rush or Wave of Light causes a decoy to spawn that taunts nearby enemies and then explodes for 1000% weapon damage.
4-Piece Enemies hit by the decoy explosion take 500% from your Cyclone Strike, Exploding Palm, Lashing Tail Kick, Tempest Rush or Wave of Light abilities for 3 seconds.

Barbarians

New Set centered on Rend and Whirlwind. Set bonuses cause Rend to triple it’s duration as well as it’s damage per second and Whirlwind causes triple damage to enemies under the Rend effect.

New item – Legendary Belt that allows the Rend DoT to stack twice.

Sources – Diablo Incgamers, N3rdwards