From the second she steps into view during her announcement trailer at Blizzcon 2010, Diablo 3‘s final character class, the Demon Hunter, (at least the female character model) just looks badass, with her glowing eyes shining from the deep recesses of her hood. And the climactic battle scene that ends the trailer has her putting down wave after wave of zombies and demons. But thrilling cinematics don’t always go hand-in-hand with how things play out in-game.
After the opening ceremony, I had the chance to play through a single-player dungeon using the Demon Hunter class. With a long-range combat style that involves crowd control abilities, explosives, and a nice battery of projectile weapons, the Demon Hunter has plenty of options to dispatch enemies while staying out of harm’s way. In fact, the ending battle shown in the trailer isn’t that far off the mark with how in-game encounters can play out, thanks to her remarkable ability to manage large groups of foes.
