Blizzard Drops Gameplay Details for Diablo 4's New Spiritborn Class

Blizzard Entertainment has released detailed information about the new Spiritborn class joining Diablo IV. This morning's announcement follows up on a tease shown during last year's BlizzCon. The Spiritborn class, launching this fall, borrows a little from everything in past Diablo games, pitting martial arts fighting against animal abilities with eye-catching aesthetics.

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New Spiritborn Class Overview

Spiritborn is a dexterity-based class armed with four unique Spirit Guardians. Each guardian gives fully unique skills that add variety to the way one plays.The jaguar inflicts fire damage, while the eagle inflicts lightning damage. The gorilla will therefore boost defensive capabilities and survivability, and the centipede offers poison and fear abilities for damage over time and crowd control.

Class Designer Bjorn Mikkelson called the Spiritborn "probably our fastest, most aggressive class," citing the fact it's capable of very fast, hard-hitting attacks with glaives, quarterstaffs, and polearms.

This is essentially game-play that takes place around short cooldown skills that are powered by the Spirit Guardians. The ultimate ability summons a Spirit Guardian to join players in an impressive, potently fight. For Game Designer Brent Gibson, summoning a guardian encapsulates the very core fantasy for this class.

Flexibility and Customization

It allows a high degree of personalization or specialization with the Spiritborn class. Players can delve deep into the single Spirit Guardian's tree of abilities or blend capabilities from multiple guardians without any negative effect on their stats. The addition of the new Spirit Hall class mechanic, coupled with new legendary and ancient gear, further personalizes playstyle in the preferred way.

Diablo IV is getting the Vessel of Hatred expansion with the brand new class Spiritborn, releasing October 8. The standard version will cost $40 for an expansion.