Wiki Watch: Blizzcon 2010 Skills and Traits

The past week’s been a busy one in the Diablo Wiki, and while there’s tons of Blizzcon info yet to update, we’ve achieved a nice milestone. All of the new skills and traits have been added and are arranged in coherent, informative pages.  How about some links?

• Barbarian skills—Barbarian traits.
• Demon Hunter skills—Demon Hunter traits.
  • All of her skills are well-documented, with stats, descriptions, play reports, screenshots, and more: Bola Shot, Grenades, Entangling Shot, Spike Trap, Vault, Fan of Knives, Molten Arrow, Multishot, Shock Spike.

• Monk skills—Monk traits.

• Witch Doctor skills—Witch Doctor traits.

• Wizard skills—Wizard traits.

If you’re wondering what skills changed… lots of them. Nearly 40 skills were removed from the game, mostly passives that were moved almost-directly into the new class traits. Plenty of skills were added as well; 5 for the Barbarian, 3 for the Wizard, and more than 15 for the Monk. Check the character archive pages to see how skills looked last year (and before): Barbarian skill archive, Monk skill archive, Witch Doctor skill archive, and Wizard skill archive.  We’ve also got running threads about the removed skills, see the Barbarian’s lost 17, the Witch Doctor’s lost 12, and the Wizard’s lost 9.

Big thanks to Risingred, WizardGurl, RichterLocke, Beerman, Adree, Elly, Kolixela, DxAxxxTyriel, Zediono for the French translations, and all the others who have helped out. Such high quality, speedy updates woudln’t have been possible without much community assistance. If you’d like to help out, in a big or small way, feel free. That’s what wikis are for, but be careful; making changes and adding new info is fun, and it can be addicting.