Since we are going to Skovos Isles I would find it hard to believe it would NOT be the amazon ? Skovos Isles is the homelands of the Amazon tribe.
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Sounds about right. Hereâs my take on what would be capital on the Amazon class and possibly a Ritualist class:
Introduction: The Amazon Ascendant â Apex of Skovos, Shadow of Tartu, Herald of the SpiritâWrought Rite
There are rare moments in the life of a game world when speculation takes on the texture of augury â when the act of imagining becomes a kind of divination, a reading of faint tremors beneath the surface of established lore. Diablo IV now stands in such a moment. With the Lord of Hatred expansion drawing the worldâs attention toward the Askari Isles of Skovos, the question of the next playable class has begun to shimmer with an almost mythopoetic gravity. And in that shimmering, two silhouettes rise with increasing clarity: the Amazon, reborn through the metamorphic sorcery of âDeath Curse of Tartu (1966)â, and the Ritualist, a spiritâbound medium whose power flows from ancestral resonance rather than brute force. Together, they form a dyad of extraordinary thematic potency â one rooted in the bodyâs transfiguration, the other in the spiritâs invocation.
To speak of the Amazon is to summon one of the most enduring archetypes in the Diablo canon. Yet the Amazon we envision now is not merely a reprise of Diablo IIâs spearâwielding sentinel. Instead, she stands poised for a profound reâimagining â one that draws upon the uncanny metamorphoses of Tartuâs curse while inverting its malignancy. In the film, the shaman Tartu transforms into serpents, panthers, and raptors, each form a manifestation of ancient wrath. But here, that same metamorphic power is reclaimed as a sacred inheritance. The Amazon becomes a heroic inversion of Tartuâs dread: a warrior who channels the primal spirits of Skovos not to haunt the living, but to hunt the demonic.
For in this new imagining, the Amazon is not merely a shapeshifter â she is an apex predator, a creature of myth whose very name causes the demonic to recoil. Among the infernal legions, she is whispered of as a harrowâborn huntress, a being who moves through the battlefield with the inevitability of a stalking eclipse. Her transformations are not grotesqueries but exaltations: serpentâform for venomous precision, hawkâform for predatory descent, pantherâform for silent annihilation. She is the embodiment of the wild soul of Skovos â revered by her people, feared by the abyss, and spoken of in the same hushed tones reserved for calamities and saints.
In this way, she becomes a luminous inversion of the Wendigo, that terrifying figure from Algonquian lore. Where the Wendigo is a devourer, a symbol of hunger without end, the Amazon becomes its radiant counterpart: a guardian who bears the shape of the monstrous without inheriting its malice. She is the Wendigoâasâprotector, the beastâasâchampion, the living covenant between humanity and the primordial forces that shaped the world. Her metamorphoses are not curses but consecrations â rites of becoming that bind her to the spirits of Skovos with sinew, storm, and sacred ferocity.
Yet if the Amazon embodies the body in flux, the Ritualist embodies the spirit in resonance. This second candidate â the wildcard whose presence deepens the thematic tapestry â emerges from the same Askari soil but walks a different path. The Ritualist is a medium, a conduit, a practitioner of rites that bind the living to the dead and the material to the immaterial. Her power is not necromantic dominion nor druidic harmony, but something more austere and arcane: the invocation of ancestral spirits, the weaving of hexes, the anchoring of totems that pulse with otherworldly intent. She is the quiet storm, the whisper in the bones, the one who sees the battle before it begins.
Together, the Amazon and the Ritualist form a pairing of remarkable narrative and mechanical resonance. They are two expressions of the same cultural lineage â one grounded in the corporeal, the other in the incorporeal; one shaped by the beasts of the land, the other by the spirits of the ancestors. Their coexistence within a single expansion would create a thematic harmony rarely achieved in class design: a pairing that feels not arbitrary but inevitable, as though Skovos itself demanded both champions to fully articulate its identity.
This duality also mirrors the emotional undercurrent of our exploration. There is a yearning here â a desire for classes that do more than fill mechanical gaps, that instead embody the mythic texture of the world they inhabit. The Amazon, reborn through the metamorphic sorcery of Tartu and the heroic inversion of the Wendigo myth, and the Ritualist, attuned to the spectral murmurs of the Askari dead, represent two facets of the same deeper longing: the wish for Diablo IV to embrace the full strangeness, the full mystique, the full esoteric richness of its own lore.
Thus, as we stand on the threshold of the Askari Isles, the question is no longer simply âWhat will the next class be?â but rather âWhat shape will the soul of Skovos take?â And in that question, the Amazon and the Ritualist rise like twin constellations â one wild, one spectral, both compelling, both possible, both illuminated by the faint, flickering lantern of what might yet come.
Skovos society is lead by a two caste society. Amazon and Oracle caste.
Itâs probably oracle for a couple reasons.
Amazon is dexterity based (already got spiritborn)
Uses holy magic and spears(which Paladins already does)
Uses shield( which Paladin already does)
oracle though would simply step on toes that arenât already in play
Giving us a Willpower based class( the sightless eye artifact required powerful Willpower to use correctly)
Are portrayed as dark seers to be the other Half of Amazonâs ( this makes it a better opposite to Paladin)
Would be ranged after we just got 2 melee in a row.
The ultimate edition Armors are also Paladin set, a half light half demonic set for all the class and the wings are angel wings with a black hole in the middle
So much of this screams oracle over Amazon.
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The silhouette does not look anything like an Amazon; I will go with the Oracle.
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And fire, ice and lightning because of Hefaetrus, Karcheus, and Zerae.
You could say that overlaps with Sorcerer, but if weâre talking about a class that overlaps Paladin, Sorcerer, and Rogue (which all feel pretty distinct from each other), then itâs worth asking what class canât be painted as having overlaps with other classes.
Itâs worth pointing out here that Amazon also used bows and javelins as ranged weapons in D2.
I donât think Amazon is the most likely, but I donât think the âspears and magicâ = Paladin or âranged vs meleeâ are that strong as arguments.
However it shakes out with the new class, I do hope we get Zeraeâs Lightning Fury in one way or other though.
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All the signs point to dark magic caster. If thatâs what an oracle is then there you go.
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Hehehe
Twenty heheheS
Thats just a tree stump 
(Amazon hiding behind)
What ever the new class is, the first time I create one, I shall name them Stumpy.
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ITs oracle and the picture is a clue as if you take the hooks things on each side and slide them together it makes a giant O. Oracle could be wisdom so that is it. Its 100% oracle.
People are still referring to âPaladinâ as melĂ©e? Is it melĂ©e because you equip a melĂ©e weapon in the weapon slot? If you equip a sword on a Sorc, is the Sorc no longer a caster by definition? This âPaladinâ is clearly a caster with some melĂ©e-range aoe effects - similar to Barb & SB, except the caster RP is even stronger with this one.
Re: topic, some previous threads here and here. The gender thing is real, and I predict Blizzard isnât imaginative enough to pull off a word-bender. The name âAmazonâ has been referring to explicitly-female warriors for a couple thousand years, but more to the point, pop culture & games have adhered to this too (if thereâs an exception itâs probably some irrelevant JRPG, a genre where nouns lose all meaning).
The game also has a Rogue, which âownsâ the bow/ crossbow slot - so that would have to be âsharedâ with Amazon, which is probably too weird for Blizzard (weâll see). IMO the classes have had weapon slots to define them (with the Barbâs being the Arsenal system). And if the Amazon is released without bow/ crossbow specialization skills (& therefore identity) that would be even weirder. Also, âspearâ mightâve been sacrificed in the âPaladinâ RP. Your Amazon was probably melted down & reconstituted between the Rogue & the âPaladinâ.
The dark silhouette in the poster also strongly suggests caster class.
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If the âclass-specific weapon slot itemâ holds true, and itâs Oracle⊠what could be an appropriate Oracle-specific weapon slot item? Are we getting a new type of offhand and/or weapon?
We should discuss how its dark magic will work. I canât imagine it just being the same as the necromancers shadow spells.
Iâm picturing a bunch of black void explosions all over the screen like black holes. Spread a black magic dot all over the screen like a bleed that drains enemies health. Summon a dark beast from the void.
Stuff like that. Equally as busted as the paladin. Not more so. That will not be necessary. Calm down Blizzard. Put it away before someone sees.
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D4 needs a class that would be focused on playstyle of placing turrets on the ground that shoot on its own. That Oracle looks interesting and it could conjure variety of magical totems that would attack enemies.
Weâve already had a taste of the gameâs more âdarkâ effects, so if I had to guess, Iâd say it would look similar to vampire powers (Season 2) or witchcraft (Season 7). There are many things to complain about in this game, but itâs probably not the lack of creativity when it comes to visual effects.
Iâd assume the effects will be dark because of the way the umbral armor set looks. One side is darkness. And the armour sets description says cross class and says it reflects the delicate balance of light and shadow. Iâm assuming the classes spells and effects will be the opposite of what we see with paladin.
This sounds good. But pitch black (with highlights). If itâs not candy & neon lights, D4 is too enamoured of reds and browns, and mud. The predominant color of the game, as far as I can tell, is âmudâ. Iâd like to see a set of spells/ summons that pop against every other color palette, and the negative space suggested by true black could be cool & creepy in its own right. When these artists want to go âdarkâ they veer toward silt and clay though. Itâs everywhere.
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Itâs not Amazon because mUh DiFfErEnT but I think javazon d4 would be sick. Unfortunately since blizz mixes class archetype since D3 it means we get less of the solid archetype. Iâm honestly surprised we got rogue, but they built it in a way that replaced half of the Amazon archetype, bows and crossbows.
No casting abilities btw.
You know like druid lighting storm or sorc Incinerate.
If youâre class canât stand off screen from a world boss and actively hit them then youâre melee.
Spear of heavens is basically a might throw ability not really a core concept/ theme of the class as a whole that needs melee range for its auras or the judgment bouncing down a whole hall way
I logged into Diablo 3 the other day and i noticed that the silhouette of the new char looks like the Monk wearing Sunwuku setâŠ