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Jay Wilson gave a report on the progress of the 4th and 5th characters in a December 2008 [http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?pager.offset=3&cId=3172030&p=1 interview with 1up.com]. ::'''1UP: Can you talk about the state of the classes? For example, is every class -- even the two that you have yet to reveal -- playable in the game right now?''' ::'''Jay Wilson:''' No. The fourth class is playable in game but is using a placeholder model -- one of an NPC, actually. And all of the skills are what we call "programmer art" because we haven't implemented actual skill effects. So that one is just in gameplay testing for us while we determine signature skills. The fifth class, we're just about finished concepting it and are about to start building it. We can't use placeholder art, so we're now just going to build a model and start working on the first series of skills for that one. We're actually spending more time on the Witch Doctor, Wizard, and Barbarian because of a big change we made to the skill system that we wanted to [integrate them] with -- so it's mostly just artwork that's going on for the other two classes. It's not clear why they couldn't use placeholder art for the 5th character, but that's something fans are enjoying speculating about.  ==Known Class Information==We have heard several statements saying The D3 Team has confirmed that the [[Barbarian]] will be the only recurring character [[class]] from [[Diablo II]], but that there might of the original 5 Diablo III characters. More characters will be a possibility for one or more classes to come added in an eventual expansion to [[Diablo III]](s) and some may be revisions of earlier character types. We also know that the Diablo III dev team at once though about making a [[Dervish]] class, but no information if that idea is completely shelved. It seems highly unlikely that the Dervish would appear though, as [[Blizzard]] have avoided talking about upcoming classes, and they would be unlikely to mention the class in passing if that is one class that will make the game.