Diablo 3 had you unlock skills gradually, automatically upgraded your stats with each level, and let you swap your active abilities in and out on the fly.
That said, once you’ve started customising your class, you’re kinda locked into it.
Classes are heavily customisable through the variety of skills they have available, and it’s entirely likely that your Embermage will look and fight nothing like mine, who – by level 50 – resembled a polychromatic pinwheel of death. They also have plenty of skills focused on two-handed weapons, or can instead equip a cannon and use a plethora of robotic devices to support them. I described the Engineer as tank-like, which is true as they have a number of skills devoted to using a sword and shield combination.
This time around we’ve got four classes to choose from – the gun-toting Outlander, the melee-focused Berserker, the glass-cannon Embermage, and the tank-like Engineer – but, honestly, trying to pigeonhole any of them is surprisingly difficult.
