Blizzard has announced two new characters for Heroes of the Storm, both of which come from its Diablo universe. Xul the Necromancer is the first of the Diablo II-exclusive classes to make an appearance in Heroes of the Storm, sporting his trademark ability to summon skeletons. Diablo 3's Wizard Li-Ming joins the fray alongside him, armed with an arsenal of high-damage spells.
The Necromancer's skillset allows for him to become a great assassin or split pusher, and the Wizard debuts as one of the game's highest skill-cap characters to date. To find out more about these two new additions to the roster in Heroes of the Storm, I spoke to director Dustin Browder about why these characters were chosen, raising the skill bar of players in Heroes of the Storm, and more.
These characters have been moved around several times, so the fact that they're together is kind of an accident. Necromancer has been a character that's been asked about for quite some time. Since 2013 people have been asking about Necromancer, and now we've finally got a kit that we were happy with. The idea for Li-Ming the Wizard actually started as specifically as, "Is there an easy-to-understand, but very high skill cap hero that we can do? An assassin, someone who can really blow people on. Who would that go on?"
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