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The '''Necromancers''' of [[Sanctuary]] are a class in ''[[Diablo II]]''. The Necromancer will not appear in amongst the 5 characters in ''Diablo III'' when the game is released, but adding in an updated version of the character in an expansion has not been ruled out by the D3 Team.
==No Necromancer Explained== The issue non-inclusion of the Necromancer in Diablo III was greeted with a great deal of protest by loyal fans, and as a result Blizzard has repeatedly had to explain why they made the [[Witch Doctor]] decision. Their main argument was included instead of that the Necromancer has been addressed on several occasions by was done so well in D2 that they didn't see much to improve upon in D3, and didn't want to just repeat the same character in the new game. This contrasts to the D3 TeamBarbarian, who they thought they could update and reinvent in interesting ways. Here's D3 Lead Designer [http://www.gameinformer.com/News/Story/200809/N08.0903.1800.35279.htm?Page=3 [[Jay Wilson]] commenting on that issue] in September 2008.
::One of the reasons we didn’t do the same treatment with the necromancer that we did with the barbarian is that the necromancer was more fully realized as a class in Diablo II. If we were going to bring him back, curses, skeletons, corpse explosion—you’re done. That’s the class. We felt the job was so well done that we didn’t know that we could do a lot to improve him, and that choosing to make that class was more or less like putting handcuffs on ourselves and wouldn’t allow us to create new and original gameplay. So we decided to go with a new pet class. We focused with the witch doctor on having him play differently enough from the necromancer so that, say if someday in the future we want to add some of the old classes back to Diablo III, I don’t like those doors to be closed.
[[Image:Necromancer-concept.jpg|thumb|D2 Necro concept art.]]While Witch Doctors summon pets and have some curse-like spells, they are designed as more direct action characters, with less powerful minions who will fight and die fairly quickly. See the [[Witch Doctor]] page for more information about that class.
==Necromancer ''Diablo II'' Lore==
