{"id":1131,"date":"2026-02-12T08:01:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T00:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/diablo-ii-resurrected-is-adding-warlock-as-a-brand-new-player-class\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T08:01:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T00:01:30","slug":"diablo-ii-resurrected-is-adding-warlock-as-a-brand-new-player-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/diablo-ii-resurrected-is-adding-warlock-as-a-brand-new-player-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Diablo II: Resurrected is adding warlock as a brand new player class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KnAsWN-6hvw\" data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\">announced<\/a> today that it is introducing the Warlock as a playable character to <em>Diablo II: Resurrected<\/em>. It brings the first new class in 25 years to this remaster of the original RPG. It\u2019s part of the <em>Reign of the Warlock<\/em> DLC, which is available today and will run you $25. It also includes some other updates to the base game, including new items and a new pinnacle boss encounter against the Colossal Ancients. For those players who don\u2019t already own the base game, you can also pick up the Infernal Edition of <em>D2R<\/em> for $40, which includes the new content.<\/p>\n<p>When <em>D2R<\/em> <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/microsoft-bethesda-blizzard-diablo-2-resurrected-hd-remaster-175939269.html\" data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\">launched<\/a> in 2021, it was an impressively faithful recreation of the game that so many Blizzard fans continued to adore over the years. Bringing in a whole new player class is a big win for those players who have stuck with the game in its contemporary era.<\/p>\n<p>If <em>D2R<\/em> isn&#8217;t your jam, though, Warlock is also being added to both <em>Diablo 4<\/em> in its upcoming <em>Lord of Hatred<\/em> expansion this April and to <em>Diablo Immortal<\/em>. So aside from <em>Diablo 3<\/em> not getting much love, just about all fans of the franchise will have a chance to get into the demon-summoning groove. Blizzard&#8217;s 30th anniversary showcase <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KnAsWN-6hvw\" data-i13n=\"cpos:3;pos:1\">video<\/a> has all the details about what the other Diablo titles have in store during this year.<\/p>\n<p>Blizzard has been keeping the news and updates rolling over the past few weeks in honor of the company&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/gaming\/blizzard-lines-up-wow-overwatch-hearthstone-and-diablo-showcases-154912932.html\" data-i13n=\"cpos:4;pos:1\">35th anniversary<\/a>. One of the more notable updates came for team hero shooter <em>Overwatch<\/em>, which lost the 2 in its name, but gained five more heroes in its big <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/gaming\/overwatch-will-drop-the-2-as-jetpack-cat-and-four-other-heroes-arrive-on-february-10-184500327.html?guccounter=1\" data-i13n=\"cpos:5;pos:1\">update<\/a> yesterday.<\/p>\n\n<p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/gaming\/diablo-ii-resurrected-is-adding-warlock-as-a-brand-new-player-class-000130003.html?src=rss<\/p><p>Please credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/obagg.com\">OBA Blog<\/a> &raquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/diablo-ii-resurrected-is-adding-warlock-as-a-brand-new-player-class\/\">Diablo II: Resurrected is adding warlock as a brand new player class<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard announced today that it is introducing the Warlock as a playable character to Diablo II: Resurrected. It brings the first new class in 25 years to this remaster of the original RPG. It\u2019s part of the Reign of the Warlock DLC, which is available today and will run you $25. It also includes some other updates to the base game, including new items and a new pinnacle boss encounter against the Colossal Ancients. For those players who don\u2019t already own the base game, you can also pick up the Infernal Edition of D2R for $40, which includes the new content. When D2R launched in 2021, it was an impressively faithful recreation of the game that so many Blizzard fans continued to adore over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}