The Diablo 4 Unveiled panel is now live. We’ll cover all the updates on the next installment in the Diablo franchise.

Diablo 4 Panel

• Still a Classic Isometric Action RPG
• Dark Non-Linear Campaign
• Shared Open World with 5 Distinct Regions
• Weather and Day/Night Cycles
• Hundreds of Dungeons and Legendaries
• Five Powerful Classes
• Sorceress, Barbarian, and Druid announced so far.
• Developed for PC, Xbox One, and PS4 simulanteously
• Developers want everything you experience to feel immersive and faithful to the game.
• Much more grounded approach to design. They want a darker, more mature setting with a realistic story.
• Character selection campfire is back.

Barbarian

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• Visceral combat
• Designed to be physically imposing and armed to the teeth
• Arsenal system: Barbarian has 4 weapon slots and can use 1 and 2 handed weapons in the same build. 4 legendary weapons can be equipped at once!
• Items can be assigned to a skill, the weapon will be used automatically when the skill is pressed.

Druid

• Druid is back for the first time since Diablo 2
• Still rooted in nature with his natural companions like wolves and vines.
• Werebear and Werewolf forms.
• Like the Barbarian’s weapon swapping your abilities will automatically activate the appropriate form.
• You can completely specialize in 1 form.

Sorceress

• Elemental carnage on the battlefield
• Dungeons are extremely dark and are lit up by her magic
• Appears to be a male and female option
• Can transform into a destructive ball of lightning
• Frost and Fire spells as always.
• Shatter frozen enemies.

Diablo 4 Cosmetic Customization Options

• Male and Female options for each class.
• Can customize hair, skin, jewelry, scars, etc.

Diablo 4 Gameplay Customization

• Talent Trees are back
• Runewords that create triggers and effects
• Skill ranks are back

Game World

• Diablo 4 will be much more open.
• You can level how you choose. Explore, do side quests, etc. Or just focus on the main story.
• 5 distinct zones with unique environments
• Regions are up to 20 times larger than previous games.
• There will still be waypoints.
• Due to the large zone size there are now mounts.
• Mounts can be customized with armor and trophies. Damage reduction, move speed increase, etc.
• Dismount abilities

Social Hubs

• Safe zones
• Interact with other players
• Look for groups for open world raid bosses
• Trade

PvP Zones

• Special zones where players can opt into PvP combat.
• Any player can be killed here and ears will be looted.

Diablo 4 Dungeons

• Explore dungeons to find Epic loot.
• Fully randomized.
• Hundreds of underground dungeons.
• There are also exterior dungeons.
• Players will be going to Hell.

Monsters

• Many familiar enemies like fallen and skeletons.
• New monsters like the Drowned… undead which come from the ocean
• Open world raid style bosses. Ashava, The Pestilent shown in demo.

Items and Loot

• Emphasis on Legendary items.
• Diablo 3 had too much of an emphasis on Sets.
• Sets will still exist, but will not dominate like Diablo 3.
• Affixes will improve skill ranks and grant talents.
• Much more build variety through legendary items.

Release Date is not announced, but Diablo 4 will not be released anytime soon. Many demo streams coming throughout blizzcon.

There is a new Diablo 4 website with game information and development status updates.