Diablo 3 Archivist April Fool 2009

[Frgz88]

So we have barb, wizard out already and now they give us this? Why doesn't blizz just give us paladin back or amazon, those classes were actually balanced. Archivist is a one button, no skill class that one shots everything in a room with no thought, so hard. (But I will definitely be playing one^^)

[5ethw5]

he sounds like cain..

[ff7masta]

@19Iguy It is clear from your posts that you cannot structure an argument.

[ff7masta]

@19Iguy Walking into a conversation and announcing you don't know anything about the subject does not contribute in any way conceivable. You are a moron. Good day.

[ff7masta]

@19Iguy His opinion is ill-informed and does not contribute to discussion. He is a moron.

[ziggyaxl]

@ff7masta i must agree with 19lguy here, you seem to be a dick, as he said ''i don't remember'' that means he does not remember. you sir are a dick

[ziggyaxl]

one dick to many maybe

[ff7masta]

@ziggyaxl He was not asked for his opinion. Do you not see that announcing that you have no idea what you're talking about does not contribute? Or are you as thick headed as this other 13 year old?

[Carthsting]

2009? Seem like yesterday. What a long year it was...

[KarmaSpaz12]

Am I the only one who was disappointed that this was an April Fools Day joke? I seriously think the Archivist would be a cool character to play! :D

[SaMoVArr]

the 3rd skill is just for hc archivists D:

[ShawshankFrank]

that sux, fucking IDIOTS making the new diablo........................­. i hate them, theres no epic with any of the skills on any char in any fuckin way, fucking blizzard making only childgames with a little splatter OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO destroying all of the best diablo gothic feel with pointers over their head and idiocy, FUCK BLIZZARD, <THEY LICK BALLS.

[Carthsting]

@ShawshankFrank I don't remember any gothic feel in Diablo.

[ff7masta]

@Carthsting The Cathedral itself was gothic architecture. You don't know shit about art.

[Carthsting]

@ff7masta Yes, you surely do have a lot of knowledge in "shit".

[ff7masta]

@Carthsting Lolwut. You don't know shit but puport your ill-informed opinion = I'm shit.

Right....

[TheRealDemonicIdiot]

This should be a class.

[luigidragon]

google glass cannon this comes up

[elroid]

Well, ain't that a rough paper cut.

[fraggrenade001]

Never seen a librarian that was so powerful!

[delshad82]

d3 it seem slow

[BiohazardArkanium]

I insist we be allowed to play as the Archivist class, perhaps as a secret "Book Level".

[ajwhite98]

@BiohazardArkanium omg that would be awesome!

[GamerMGO]

actually i could see playing with this class a little bit could be fun seems his skills are actually useful

[YesYouAreIgnorant]

@GamerMGO yah but notice he dies in 1 hit is and is SUPER slow. I doubt many people would play this for too long lol.

[meatspining]

i dont get it, this is lame and unfunny

[VeggeMight]

The sad thing is this looks better than all the other classes with the colorful ability spam

[DocWilyZ]

Archivist is actually pretty balanced.

+100% skill with tomes.

+1000% weakness to wooden planks.

[myuglyluggage]

glad they watsed their time thinking this crap up. It will probaly set them back 3 months.

[orlandothx]

omg !! this is diablo!!!!!!!!!!!  not the crapy colorfull wowwish that we saw before :)

[macic666dp]

Diablo: What sick man sends Cain to fight me!

[ManelinhoAraujinho]

I wish I could the Shush in the movie theatre. -.-

[Kaufman8]

Haaaugh! *gets crushed with roof-plank*

[ManelinhoAraujinho]

@Kaufman8 He wasn't hit by the plank, but by the air it moved. x'D

[Kaufman8]

@ManelinhoAraujinho Haha that is awesome

[lolcopter97]

would of been a nice hero xD

[Gyrogyro]

shhhhh......BOOOM!

[thermopoly13]

stay awhile and listen.

OR ELSE

[MizukiYanagi]

hahahahahahahahahah!! hilarious! XD

it'd be an awesome class to play though XD

[merijnvanesch]

PLIK PLIK PLI K PLIK PLIK PLIK PLIK

[neemguy81]

I lost my disc for D2 and now I cant play :(

[z8z4]

@neemguy81 if you have the CD key you dont need it get a battlenet account and you can download it

[Chris050493]

If you still have the CD key, maybe in the case or something, you can go on the blizzard website, start an account, enter your CD key and you can download the game instead :P

[rblais33]

if you still have the CD key you can just download the game directly from the blizzard web site

[TupacxKobexBiggie]

good

[Kokasu]

I think this character is quite a good use....But he is so weak to death....

[hugeirategamerfan979]

you just think how mych time they did waste time on that when they could be making new characters

[ZuluDawn88]

Not really, the model is already a NPC from the game so not much time wasted.

[fuglypump]

@ZuluDawn88 it's probably a character that's already in the game, like a vendor or something.

[TonyTubeSocks]

No time wasted. Do your research.

[Frank2029]

@hugeirategamerfan979

looks like he is limping which means they took the movement from cain and it seems to be some type of custom monk skill. Probably took them 3-4 hours tops. dont be a n00b. just be patient and do your research next time.

[F2ID78gh]

..:D

[SvenIsHere]

blizzard have always been excellent with their april fools jokes, this is no exception

[venus41dbs]

for an april fools class,it looks pretty tight. i wonder how much time and effort they put into a class that wont be ingame considering they should be focusing on the actual game so it can be released already...

[jakeyjoo]

Yeh, NO.

Blizzard always does april fools jokes. Its good for a laugh, and it tides the fan boys over until the next real information. And given the profits that Blizzard turnover, I'm pretty sure they can spare a dollar or two for this AF joke.

[Anythingwilldo41]

They ONLY did it for the money.

That is as far as I can say without speculation.

[crapshter23]

This is the same game series that included a random unlockable cow level in the second game.... My guess is that they enjoy there jobs and try to make the best of it

I like it when game developers have a good sense of humor

[Anythingwilldo41]

The cow level was extremely fun.

Fun=Money.

This "April Fool's joke" will only happen for the hope of profit.

That is why I think that they were making this char and didn't like it. They aren't going to waste money.

[Grug16]

Except that Bashiok, community manager for Diablo 3, confirmed that they whipped up the whole thing from scratch in about 5 hours. All they had to do was put different textures on Cain, Tornado, Magic Missile, and the Stun effect, then make magic missile stun.

I'd be more worried about why Cain has a custom death animation.

[vjb1994]

making magic missile stun is probably a rune skill for magic missile so they probably had to make it anyway

[SourEmotion]

lol makes me think of a waldo class

[F2ID78gh]

Love this class .. even as a joke .

Would be very fun if one could unlock this at end game. Great funny powers .. and a fun slow char that dies on any hit lol

[goldatra3]

i am no complaning but if blizzard keep working and making some big page for each little monsters that they will add in the game. then it will take alot of years before this game come out.

[mrharryballzonya]

Lorenado was pretty great.

[klangodocerrado]

I'm an archivist and I think would be nice if blizzard work in this idea. Improving speed and usefull skills of course =P.

PS:

Science have a different conception of what is an archivist, not just a book reader but an information manager filtrating history and science from archivers, records or files in general turning nonsense data into a helping hand for decision-making on enterprises and public service. Develop the best way to produce information as well.

Is a very nice job!

[scylla019]

he resembles deckard cain somehow. haha guess deckard is also an archivist if you think about how much lore he knows

[EmberBurn333]

Hilarious!

[luxub2]

wow they had time to make all this instead of working on diablo 3!?!

[jaja191919]

the game is already finish...they just trying to build up demand so that alot of gamers buy it the minute it shelves on stores..but the question is..will most of US buy or get it fo FREE!!? PC gaming is the BEAST!!

[mattkleyla]

Great comment there LOL

[bobo105012]

was i the only person that thought this class had potential??? :'(

[KingRico2009]

Sehr nice! :D

[Zia810417]

LOL

[Poserq]

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha­hahaha this is my favorite class lmao

shhhhhhhhhh *enemy dies* ohhhhhhhh!!!

then u blow up ohhh..~~~

[comiss3655]

was this just a joke?

[damianson]

guess you dont know what a aprils fool joke is..

[comiss3655]

ahha i was kidding but that last skill looks pretty sick

[Iraiduranus]

Blizzard's sense of humor is larger than....... a fat cow

When they do april fools , you will laugh, whether you want to or not, you WILL LAUGH!

[darkbluesoul]

I personally feel that the delays in release relate more to protecting blizzards paid subscription game. You know that when the next titles come out, the paid subscription wow base will really suffer, and they are waiting for wow to live as long as possible. Personally, I think wow is nearing the end of its ascendance and will be a different game after the next two blizz titles release. I also think Bnet will be a paid or tiered system eventually.

[BurningCrusadez]

haha.he keeps dying when he casts a spell?how can he ever complete the game?the monsters dont attack him lol

[monkeymstr14]

cant wait this game is gonna be amazing.

[rossog]

I saw the new videos for diablo 3 then I........ JIZZED IN MY PANTS

[Davverzz]

LOL. I was in awe when he killed everything with Shush, and then I was waiting for something to poke em/kill em, and then he explodes. Thats great xD

[nikmcvideos]

I'm pretty sure that Diablo 3 is coming out Fall 2010. I've heard it somewhere, I could be wrong, but Blizzard has announced that it will come out somewhere in 2010.

[G0DxDaMnxELECTRIC]

blizzard is full of shit i bet this game will be out in 2011 look how long starcraft 2 is taking

[cenaro55]

theirlooking at two games simultaneously which is SC2 and WOW cataclysm so yea its pretty obvious

[preseazelos]

Theres a rumor that the necro will come back in the expansion

[TangPolice]

nah, witch doctor is new necro.

[railin07]

doctor IS the nec..

[LoganInHumboldt]

wow, for the time it took to make this charecter and video, blizzard ciuldve actually been working in the game that theyve been promising us for 9 years

[jaymisono]

Makes the crowd want more. Gotta hype up the game as much as possible.

[cross7crusnik]

his move speed is jokes lol

[MTBDown]

Diablo 3....November....its coming. Shhhhhhhh

[xZalex90]

Not...

[eldwargo]

@xZalex90 yea there is a new rumor that its coming out in the 4th month of 2011. around there

[DJPhrased]

really? if your seriouse, you have just made my night

[PeroxideOblivion]

SHTAY A WHILE AND LISTEN!

[christhediablomaster]

Meh. They've got 3/5 character classes, they should stick with the Archivist,then make a new bow effecent character class, then release the damn game! After they announce the release date,(If they do anytime soon) it's just going to take another six months to release it! When I found out about Wrath of The Lich King, it took a year to finally release it! And the release date might be announced tomorrow, or in another 6 months! And how long to release after that?! A very long wait we have. :(

[xXBosnianSniperXx]

Blizzard's always been slow, but that's because they like a really polished product. And they do produce great stuff, so fingers crossed...

[Cappucino145]

LOOOOOOOOL

[junkevin]

lol! the end.. i was like wow really? then he explodes

[cyncmaster150]

Personally I don't see why cane is a staple in the Diablo universe.

I really hope he dies somehow : /

[Auronshead]

lol

[yesterdayihadtoast]

dam that wil b a shitty class. only if he dies in 1 hit and is really slow like he was in that vid

[DrawerMarco]

uhh if you havent noticed it is Cain jst twinked and not as old....

What i do hope is you can target npc's cain would be first on the hitlist

[BREEOzzi]

But he's just a cenile old man!! :(

SHTAY A WHILE AND LISTEN! :(

[Dingleberry117]

Blizzard takes their time to perfect their games. Sure this is a joke but it took them probably 2 days to do.... Anyway they take their time making games so we done piss and moan after they released it.

[chrissjg]

theyre also making starcraft and blizzcon events not all of blizzard made this archvist only a few workers and it prolly took them like 2 days to make the scene its just deckard cain fixed up to look diffrent

[Vedaseran]

For the guys at Blizzard this takes no time whatsoever. It will delay the game for a few hours at most. Is that really worth getting so worked up over?

[pachil92]

The monsters die from paper cuts!

[Azebu95]

They can add this as a secret...

unblockable character after entering specific name or in-game code

[babune]

Damn, skills - SUSH! Is AWSOME xDDD

BTW Nice joke.

[LeighXfriswell]

its Deckards cain voice, when he says Hmm.. notice:)

[robleggatt7]

It's Cain's Diablo III model too by the looks of things :P

[swedichboy1000]

necromaner is my fav class :D

[mukamuk01]

diablo 3 looks like a marvel with all that bloodshed :D

[johnnyboybledsoe]

damn lol i thought it was real

[crabsarnt4sale]

damn this class looks godly to bad you wont be able to play it

[jordantiste]

I wish there will be a cow level in Diablo 3 :D

[poisonkuni]

lol wait and see its gunna be a refrence to another game XD *mabey a zerg rush?*

[rickiricki]

haha so fucking fun the last part was so fucking fail with that thing falling from the roof or something well it didnät hit him but still he died really ROFL

[Countdown1990]

this video has bad quality, ive seen better quality at gametrailers

[xZalex90]

yea, i know. i've uploaded it in HD, but YT doesn't even show it in HQ :/

[Tineafa]

I hope they add the Archivist as an in game secret :P

If not as an unlockable class, then at least as a boss, although I'd like to play the Archivist more than any other class they've shown thus far.

[ZEMASTER94]

OMG thank god that was a prank i thought ud have a character that reads books

[EricToTheScionti]

Looks like shit

[Eskn69]

its too bad blizzard north isnt the ones making diablo any more, wont be the same game without the original makers of diablo 1 and 2. however diablo 3 will still be an awesome game when it gets released.

[IoBennYoI]

with this class diablo really lost the speed of the gameplay

Macht anscheinend viel dmg is aber lahm und steckt wenig ein^^

[Auronshead]

das war ein april witz von blizzard oh man..

[social3ngin33rin]

LOL!!!! last part is awesome

[TCTriangle]

Wait how'd he die at the end?

[Zamolxx]

Nice joke :)))

[inesenthm]

Ah, I've always loved Blizzard's April Fools jokes. They're so fucking clever, and you can tell that they put a good deal of effort into shaping them. My favorite has to be that World of Warcraft: Molten Core game. Fucking brilliant.

[artem2922]

Shush HAHAHAHHAHA

[ZobmieRules]

sssssh is FREAKING HILARIOUS

[DarkZB]

Cool, always wanted a class that can make his own quests, give people paper cuts, turns dungeons into a library and die when touched.

[thecircleisperfect]

I'm relieved to find out today that this was an april fools joke haha! No doubt he will be a secret unlockable when it's released ;)

[tecramos]

that's Deckard Cain, lol

[bihrider]

hahhahaha funny faggot

damn stupid as nerds think dey fuunny

[tecramos]

ho you calling faggot.....cretin

[bihrider]

you im calliung you a faggot u gay ass faggot

[tecramos]

the only faggot here is you, stupid piece of shit go and kill youself

[inesenthm]

Your obvious intellectual inferiority is like a second fucking sun. Could you at least come up with an insult that hasn't been used ten thousand times a day since time immemorial? I'm not really feeling the burn. If you REALLY want to hit someone where it hurts, you're going to have to do a fuck of a lot better than that. In any case, you should get back to watching those shitty fart joke videos that you and your jackass kin seem so fond of, and let us enjoy our creative humor in peace. Douche.

[bihrider]

i have no fucking ideoa waht ur talking about are you like a fat ass nerd that sits inside his house playing games all day u gay faggot go shove the bible up ur ass u dumb american idiot

[inesenthm]

I'll break it down for you, simple as possible; you're an idiot. Your insults are weak and out of date, and I don't think that anyone over the age of ten would be insulted by anything you've said up until now. You're inferior. Weak minded. Pathetic.

Oh, and I'm from Finland. And I'm Agnostic. I don't know where you pulled the American Christian insults from. Douchebag.

[bihrider]

whats a agnostic seresly asking no insulting

[TCTriangle]

It means someone who believes that God can neither be proven nor disproven and there is no evidence that He exists or does not exist.

[bihrider]

damn thaTS PRETTY STUPID

[Mickoes]

lol what...bihrider seriously be open minded one time in ur life.

[STarCRAFT4BRITS]

Your'e bright.

[inesenthm]

@ tecramos: Are you being fascicious, or did you actually just call someone a cretin?

You've been reading Freak the Mighty, haven't you?

[tecramos]

is that a good thing or a bad thing??

[Coltonreally]

indeed it is :D

all this time he sent heros to do his work when he can do that xD

[MyFlamsAreLethal]

they should spend more time making the game instead of fooling around iv been waiting forever ya know?

[pal1090]

i agree completely >: /

[HaHNotFunny]

i thought he was for real the second of april i rememberd it was april fools the first i was like fuck

[seanster321]

this should be like an unlockable in single player mode.

[dupersloby]

what the hell? its just that Deck of Cards guy from the first two games but with a different head.

[Reckless1112]

lol i love how he explodes in the end...wtf? xD

Hopefully that whole 9/9/09 thing is true cus i wanna play this game!

[sameelatif]

funny but i wish they'd focus on getting the game released and putting more often updates on the site rather than random crap like this

[OMFGMOO]

They only get to do this "crap" once a year.

[maleb0x]

Lorendo: death by paper cuts.....