Some truths
should never die
Every Diablo V announcement, panel statement and reveal, filed with its trust state and primary source on the day it happened.
In the same BlizzCon interview with Rhykker, Joe Shely said sets are meant to "broaden the range of viable builds rather than narrow them", and that an item's name will tell you something about its power level.
In a BlizzCon interview with Rhykker, Joe Shely and John Mueller said Diablo V separates character creation from class choice. Mueller is aiming for "more RPG character creation than we've ever had".
In a BlizzCon group interview with Kotaku, John Mueller said Joe Shely had written "community involvement, as early as possible" down as a pillar for the team at the start of development.
Senior producer Tiffany Watt told Windows Central that Diablo V has had its own branch of the Diablo IV engine "for a while now", so it carries no tech debt it does not want.
Neil David Carter, cinematics director for the Diablo series, posted "First shoot #Diablo5" on 14 October. It is the first sign of production since the reveal - and says nothing about the story.
Diablo IV game director Brent Gibson says seasons will continue after Diablo V comes out, for as long as players keep showing up - the way Diablo II and III are still supported.
Joe Shely calls the caravan "a point of light moving through the land" - areas it leaves stay empty and can become dangerous again. Jennifer Hepler says the team is thinking a lot about what comes after the campaign.
Game director Joe Shely told Gameblog that Blizzard plans to include more classes than any base Diablo game has had, announced over time. Until now that claim had no developer behind it.
Joe Shely and Jennifer Hepler say the game will show how Diablo took Sanctuary, and that the story starts when the Heir walks out of Diablo's Terror Realm alive.
Blizzard says it is committed to a complete endgame at launch, and is moving some of the systems' complexity out of the campaign and into it.
Game director Joe Shely says Diablo V will take "a somewhat different approach" to monster level scaling, and that the game will lean on planning your build over moment-to-moment execution.
An aside at the reveal was widely read as confirming Diablo V for PC. Blizzard says it was an acknowledgement that PC and Battle.net are foundational to the company, not a platform announcement.
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