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The Barbarian This class was the first class revealed June 2008 at also in [[WWI 2008|Blizzard's World Wide InvitationalDiablo I]] in Paris, where they also announced the development of Diablo III. The class also exists for and [[Diablo II]] and [[:* {{iw|Barbarian_Diablo_I Barbarian (Diablo I]]:Hellfire)}}
* {{iw|Barbarian_Diablo_I Barbarian (Diablo I: Hellfire)}}
It's also an interesting concept to have the same character return in D3, as a grizzled veteran of countless conflicts, as a grown man who defeated the three Prime Evils twenty years ago... and who starts off D3 at level 1, without the ability to do much more than swing an axe.
The Barbarian was not intended to come over from [[Diablo II]] originally. A character with similar appearance and skills was planned, but everyone in the dev team started calling it Barbarian, and so they decided to call it that. [[Jay Wilson]] quote: [http://www.ausgamers.com/features/read/2662371]
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The '''Barbarian''' is a [[melee]] class that uses [[fury]] as a [[resource pool]]. See a full listing of the [[Barbarian Skills|Barbarian's skills]]. This was the first class revealed June 2008 at [[WWI 2008|Blizzard's World Wide Invitational]] in Paris, where they also announced the development of Diablo III.
* {{iw|Diablo_2_Barbarian Barbarian (Diablo II)}}
Barbarian can also refer to the ancient people:
::''With the Barbarian, we had to updating a classic. The Barbarian was exciting for us to work on -- to take a classic char we all love to play and bring him back to life. What's this guy been doing for the past 20 years? This guy's 8 feet tall and 300 lbs of pure muscle. He saw things during the events of Diablo II that would have killed most people, but he's still around. In D3 we aged him, grayed his hair, gave him some scars. We think those elements help sell the story visually. Signs of age, how he wears his armor. All that helps us tell the story visually.''
===Why Repeat the Character?===
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<blue>The barbarian is the only returning class. Originally we actually planned to have no returning classes, but as we developed the barbarian, it essentially ended up turning into a barbarian. We sort of got to the point where we went – because we actually had a different name for him originally - I think were going to call it this other name and everyone else is just going to call it the barbarian, so maybe we should just call it the barbarian.<br><br> One of the things we really did not want to do – it's why we set that initial goal to not repeat classes – was, we didn't just want a rehash; we wanted to make the sequel and the sequel has new gameplay and new experiences. I know a lot of people really love the classes in Diablo 2 and it's not my desire to intentionally arc those people – I like those classes to; I love the necromancer, he's my favourite class from Diablo 2 – but as our goal we really wanted to provide new experiences; that was our focus.</blue>
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Jay did not disclose what the original name was.
