Difference between revisions of "Zombie Charger"

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Zombie Charger is a Tier Two Witch Doctor skill.

It summons a zombie that charges forward, disintegrating rapidly into a poison cloud. This skill deals considerable poison damage, but the range is quite short. It can be greatly improved with Runes.

Background

Diablo III Skill [e]

Zombie Charger Active, 5 ranks
Used by:	Witch Doctor
Skill Description:
A reckless, suicidal zombie deals poison damage to all enemies in its way.
Skill Details:
Type:	Summon
Quantity:	Cast
Effect:	Target
School:	Magical
Mana cost:	12 mana
Cast time:	Unknown
Duration:	None
Cooldown:	Unknown
Synergies:	Unknown
Requires:	N/A
Prereq of:	N/A

The base version of this skill essentially functions as a poison cloud that spreads disease to everything in a short path in front of the Witch Doctor.

Skill Design

The zombie is humanoid, but it disintegrates so quickly into a green gas that it's hard to get a good look at it.

Skill Rank Table

Skill stats as seen at Blizzcon 2009. There will be changes in the final game.

Rank: 1/5
- Summon a reckless zombie from the ground to assault your enemies.
- Health Cost: Unknown
Rank: 2/5
- Summon a reckless zombie from the ground to assault your enemies.
- Health Cost: Unknown
Rank: 3/5
- Summon a reckless zombie from the ground to assault your enemies.
- Health Cost: Unknown
Rank: 4/5
- Summon a reckless zombie from the ground to assault your enemies.
- Health Cost: Unknown
Rank: 5/5
- Summon a reckless zombie from the ground to assault your enemies.
- Health Cost: Unknown

(legend (A) = Assumed)

Synergies

Numerous Witch Doctor traits increase his spell damage across the board, as well as against specific types of enemies. The only traits that specifically boost Zombie Charger are:

Zombie Master -- Increases damage done by Zombie skills.

Runestone Effects

Only one runestone effect is known for Zombie Charger, the instantly-legendary "Zombie Bears." It's not known which rune creates this bonus.

The effect was created by Julian Love and revealed at Blizzcon 2010, where it became something of a running joke, and was brought up in interviews and panels with unbearable frequency. [1]

Slashdot: I was playing a Witch Doctor, and I used the spell that summons a zombie for you, and I got a rune that turned it into a swarm of bears. We got a real kick out of that.

Julian Love: Yeah! Zombie Bears! It’s kind of funny, that’s one of the skills that came up – the way we work is that we sit down and throw a lot of crazy ideas out, and sometimes it’s a little scary, throwing an idea that you think “I’m not sure how the group will react. This is kind of wacky.” And I remember sitting in the group and they were saying, “What are we going to do? We need something else.” And I said, “I’m not even sure why this works, but I’m just going to say it: Zombie Bears!” And everybody went, “Yes!” And that was it. Look at the way to it feels to play that skill in the game – it just sounds fun, right?

Media

No clear images of Zombie Charger (or the zombie bears) have been seen; the skill is just a blur of green smoke in every screenshot that's been taken from the gameplay movie.

Diablo 3 screenshots and pictures

References

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-'''Zombie Charger''' is a tier II [[skill]] in the [[Zombie Skill Tree]], which summons a reckless zombie from the ground to do the Witch Doctor's bidding.
+'''Zombie Charger''' is a Tier Two [[Witch Doctor skill]].
+It summons a zombie that charges forward, disintegrating rapidly into a poison cloud. This skill deals considerable poison damage, but the range is quite short. It can be greatly improved with [[Runes]].
 ==Background==
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 |game= Diablo III
 |portrait=ZombieCharger.gif
-<!-- |portrait-width= -->
+|portrait-width= 150
 |active= Active
 |name= Zombie Charger
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 |user= Witch Doctor
 |tree= Zombie
-|description= Summon a reckless zombie from the ground to assault your enemies
+|description= A reckless, suicidal zombie deals poison damage to all enemies in its way.
 |type= Summon
 |quantity= Cast
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 |synergies= Unknown
 }}
-The Witch Doctor summons forth a zombie that charges at its enemies, knocking down any one in its way.
+The base version of this skill essentially functions as a poison cloud that spreads disease to everything in a short path in front of the Witch Doctor.
 ==Skill Design==
-It is not known what kind of zombie is summoned, as during the demo, this skill had the words "Not Yet Implemented" written on it. Perhaps this zombie will charge in and suicide or will be a big hulking monstrosity that is good at tanking. Speculate at your own risk.
+The zombie is humanoid, but it disintegrates so quickly into a green gas that it's hard to get a good look at it.
 ==Skill Rank Table==
-(legend (A) = Assumed)
+Skill stats as seen at Blizzcon 2009. There will be changes in the final game.
 *Rank: 1/5
 **Summon a reckless zombie from the ground to assault your enemies.
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 **Health Cost: Unknown
+(legend (A) = Assumed)
 ==Synergies==
-* None known.
+Numerous [[Witch Doctor traits]] increase his spell damage across the board, as well as against specific types of enemies. The only traits that specifically boost Zombie Charger are:
+* [[Zombie Master]] -- Increases damage done by Zombie skills.
-==[[Rune|Skill Rune]] Effects==
-* None known.
+==Runestone Effects==
+Only one [[runestone]] effect is known for Zombie Charger, the instantly-legendary "Zombie Bears." It's not known which rune creates this bonus.
+The effect was created by [[Julian Love]] and revealed at Blizzcon 2010, where it became something of a running joke, and was brought up in interviews and panels with unbearable frequency. [http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/10/10/25/1711255/Julian-Love-Lead-Technical-Artist-for-Diablo-3]
-==Development==
+::'''''Slashdot:''' I was playing a Witch Doctor, and I used the spell that summons a zombie for you, and I got a rune that turned it into a swarm of bears. We got a real kick out of that.
-''Zombie Charger'' was first seen in the [[BlizzCon 2009]] demo, and is a new skill. It is unknown if this skill was iterated, at least publicly.
-<!--<gallery>Image:Diablo_III_Logo.jpg|Skill use 1</gallery>
-==Trivia==-->
+::'''Julian Love:''' Yeah! Zombie Bears! It’s kind of funny, that’s one of the skills that came up – the way we work is that we sit down and throw a lot of crazy ideas out, and sometimes it’s a little scary, throwing an idea that you think “I’m not sure how the group will react. This is kind of wacky.” And I remember sitting in the group and they were saying, “What are we going to do? We need something else.” And I said, “I’m not even sure why this works, but I’m just going to say it: Zombie Bears!” And everybody went, “Yes!” And that was it. Look at the way to it feels to play that skill in the game – it just sounds fun, right?
 ==Media==
-You can find pictures in the Diablo 3 screenshot and picture gallery. Sadly, no images of Zombie Charger have been seen:
+No clear images of Zombie Charger (or the zombie bears) have been seen; the skill is just a blur of green smoke in every screenshot that's been taken from the gameplay movie.
 * [http://www.diii.net/gallery/ Diablo 3 screenshots and pictures]
-==Related Articles==
-*[[Zombie Skill Tree]]
 ==References==
 * [http://www.diii.net/blog/comments/full-witch-doctor-skills/ Full Witch Doctor Skill Trees and Stats]
+* [http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/10/10/25/1711255/Julian-Love-Lead-Technical-Artist-for-Diablo-3 Julian Love @ Blizzcon 2010 Interview]
+{{Skill_navbox_Witch Doctor}}
-{{Skill_navbox_zombie}}
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