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==Overview==
The team describes signature skills [http://www.diablowiki.net/WWI_2008:_Denizens_of_Diablo_Panel#Signature_Skills] as the skills that really define the characters, and it's through developing these skills that the design team comes to understand just how that character is to be played and what sort of space they will occupy in the game world.
For instance, the design goal of the [[Barbarian|Diablo III Barbarian]] is to make a huge, powerful, thundering brute of a [[melee]] fighter. So his signature skills are things that crush hordes of enemies in front of him, shake the entire screen, rip holes in the earth, etc. [[Wizard]]s are deadly, reckless mages, so their signature skills are spells that wreak massive havoc upon monsters with fire, cold, and other elements.
[[Passive skill]]s are never "signature skills." Even though passive skills can be essential and powerful, they're not visually impressive enough to be named a "signature skill."
 
==Signature Skills Debut==
 
The first reference to signature skills came at the WWI 2008, during [[WWI_2008:_Denizens_of_Diablo_Panel#Signature_Skills|the Denizens of Diablo Panel]]. In that discussion, [[Jay Wilson]] detailed the concept of signature skills and showed off a couple of examples.
** [[Blizzard]]
** [[Disintegrate]]
 
 
==References==
* [[WWI_2008:_Denizens_of_Diablo_Panel#Signature_Skills|WWI 2008: Denizens of Diablo Panel]]
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