Today five new movies, one for each of Diablo III’s classes, mysteriously appeared on YouTube. Our best guess is they’re content for the new D3 community site that someone snooped around and found before it was officially linked and public. Naturally, we grabbed them at once and posted them to our YouTube channel, in case the original versions went away.

Each movie is around one minute in length, and each shows about 30 seconds of one gender, then the other, casting various spells. These are reminiscent of the previous Runestone movies, in that the action is just a character on a black, matrix-like background, but the viewpoint is much lower, and everything looks far more 3D. In some portions spells are actually flying up and past and through the “camera.”

Better yet, each one shows off a LOT of new stuff. New skills, new runestone effects, or both. The Witch Doctor is below, since he doesn’t get very much love, and since his movie shows the most new/weird/cool stuff.

Witch Doctor skills and runestone effects demonstrated in this video:

Click through for the other four movies, plus notes on every skill/effect seen in them.





The Barbarian.

Barbarian skills and runestone effects shown in this movie:





The Demon Hunter.



Demon Hunter skills and runestone effects shown in this movie. This list is tentative since so many of the DH skills have never been seen. If you’ve got better guesses fire them in the comments.

0:02 — Fan of Knives. The ground effect appears to now be part of the base skill graphics, as it’s been in numerous screenshots.

Fan of Knives. The ground effect appears to now be part of the base skill graphics, as it’s been in numerous screenshots. 0:03-0:08 — Multishot with an unknown rune effect giving the arrows a purple gleam.

Multishot with an unknown rune effect giving the arrows a purple gleam. 0:08 0:11 – Unknown skill fires electro-arrow orbs? Probably a runestone version of Elemental Arrow.

Elemental Arrow. 0:12 – 0:16 — This is Strafe, much changed from its Diablo II Amazon form. It gives the Demon Hunter into a sort of “Death Blossom” effect, causing the DH to turn black and spin around, emitting much ordinance.

ordinance. 0:17 – 0:27 — The Demon Hunter shows a never-before seen effect, growing glowing purple emo-angel wings. This is probably Shadow Power (or Preparation), and the effect seems to super-charge his other skills much as the Wizard‘s Archon does, since the DH then shows some amazing machine gun speed with the Rapid Fire skill.

Shadow Power (or Preparation), and the effect seems to super-charge his other skills much as the Wizard‘s Archon does, since the DH then shows some amazing machine gun speed with the Rapid Fire skill. 0:33 – 0:38 — The DH fires a triple shot with green arrows. From the spinning circular projectiles this seems to be a runestone effect of Bolo Shot

Bolo Shot 0:39 – 0:43 — A powerful single-shot attack with no visible projectile and not much of a graphic. Unknown skill.

0:45 – 0:49 — Chakram is the name of this glowing, spinning, giant boomerang ninja star ability. This skill has never been player testable, so there’s no telling if it’s runestone’d or if this is the default.

Chakram is the name of this glowing, spinning, giant boomerang ninja star ability. This skill has never been player testable, so there’s no telling if it’s runestone’d or if this is the default. 0:50 – 0:58 — The DH fires shots straight up into the air and a second later numerous black/invisible meteor type projectiles come smashing down. This appears to be a runestone effect in the never-seen Rain of Arrows.

Rain of Arrows. 0:57 – 1:01 — Vault with a runestone adding a sort of Blaze effect that leaves flaming ground behind the Demon Hunter.





The Monk.



The Monk skills and runestone effects seen in this video. This list is tentative since so many of the Monk skills have never been seen. The post will be updated if better suggestions appear in the comments.





The Wizard



Wizard skills and runestone effects shown in this movie.