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[[File:Arena-profile-m-wd.jpg|frame|Male WD profile.]]
The Witch Doctor is the only class in Diablo 3 who uses [[mana]] as a character resource. In this the WD is very conventional and familiar to people who played Diablo and Diablo 2. The character casts spells that cost X amount of mana, which regenerates over time, at a rate determined by various factors including total mana pool, item modifiers, and relevant skills. Mana regenerates slowly compared to a resource like [[Arcane Power]], but the amount of mana available to the Witch Doctor increases (Details are as of yet far from completeand scales) with level.)
Mana is also regained when the Witch Doctor uses [[health orbs]]; an issue [[Jay Wilson]] addressed while answering a question about the [[Wizard]] during an October 2009 interview. <ref>[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/jay-wilson-exclusive-full-transcript/ Jay Wilson interview] - IncGamers.com, October 2010</ref>
::'''Jay Wilson: '''Um, maybe? *sounding intrigued* Usually in the third or fourth skill revision on classes we look at that kind of thing. For the [[Witch Doctor]] we figured that a lot of the mana things we had on the Wizard would work better on the Witch Doctor. We were having trouble maintaining enough mana while play testing the Witch Doctor. Especially if players didn’t take a specific mana recovery skill. So we focused on spreading that out across a lot more of the class so he can pull mana back more easily. When we get to other classes I’m sure we’ll look for more of that.
[[Image:Mana_bulb.jpg|left|frame|200px|The Mana bulb.]] ::But the key is that we don’t necessarily want to... we don’t want to cannibalize an existing gameplay mechanic. So when you take health globes that are already important, and you make them even more important, then that doesn’t really create gameplay. For the WD, the health globes weren’t that important a lot of times, since he very rarely took damage with his pets, so for him by enhancing his desire for health globes, we’re really putting gameplay where it wasn’t. So whatever we’re designing a class that’s what we look at.
==Class Background==
