So for a while i thought that since Diablo got a legendary skin from D3 while his default skin is from D2, Leoric also has another version in Diablo 1, a form that is quite different from the normal Leoric we have in the game today,
Instead of his normal look, D1’s Leoric has a more normal skeleton look without long has, his crown is golden with 4 spikes coming out of each direction.
He is mostly a naked skeleton with a black breast plate shoulder pads, and 2 spikes that are curved upwards come out of his knees.
Instead of his huge mace, he wields a large greatsword.
the skin’s name should probably be: “Skeleton King Leoric”
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Too much changes for a skin.
Great job
The hearts are pumped of this creative idea.
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maybe it’s an overkill, maybe not, they could use the same animation of leoric’s mace swing from side to side and downwards, still works with a sword.
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In general I’m looking forward to make more concept about Skeleton/Wraith characters, especial Skeleton mages, they are very nice and attractive both in skin and performance and can be a good choice for gamers.
I’d like also to play with leoric having a sword, but I think the concept need some change.
well i don’t see another concept giving him a sword, it could be a really cheap skin,
or expensive depending,
just as some sort of remind of the good ol’ days where you played diablo 1, got into the Chamber of Bones, and heard a voice say: “The warmth of life has entered my tomb!” and he ran at you with his army of archers and superior equipment, truly an awesome experience!
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The Idea is actually nice and good, but I am thinking about the concept again, a simple edit on new design (Sword King), like this:
Q)New name: Skeleton Cleave with a ghostly sword icon and graphic effect.
And in continue I think he need ability like army of skeleton archers and warriors according to your matter.
Also the skeleton mages make an Idea for me to create mages ability/talent for Leoric like this (This applies to both the current concept and the concept we want to work on).
E)Wraith Walk
At the end of the Wraith walk movement period, the path on which Leoric was moving remains a shadow effect for 3 seconds, It causes to deal 76 damage per second to the enemies are in path.
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i don’t mind the skin being more detailed, i just like the simplicity that the original skeleton king had, would implementing a sword instead of a mace be hard? yeah, will it be worth it? definitely.
More so, if we are going for a legendary skin idea, then yeah, his Q cleave is a swipe with the sword, his drain could have a skeleton archer appear and shoot an arrow that attaches to the enemy and stick to him with a rope, and his Entome Heroic could have a bunch of skeleton archers surrounding the player, and if in level 20 you upgrade your heroic entomb to deal damage the archers start shooting at whoever’s inside.
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You know, i was thinking of this a little bit ago, too. Maybe keep his mace even, or change it to the D1 sword if it was big/similar enough, and typical cape on top of it. It also made me realize, there should be a D1 style skin for Diablo also. Pls, blizz 
… <3
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absolutely 100%, the original fleshy diablo with 4 horns and boney white spikes coming out of him.
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And no tail! (though the D3 “Darkening of Tristram” event got that detail wrong 
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Fine, keep the tail if that’s too much of a slihouette change, it would still be a cool skin, and not too much work, I imagine…
It’s practically a recolor! (again, if they go for the D3 route; it could be more work if they make him more humanoid and less “lizard-oid”, like he was in D1)
This is a great suggestion. In 2008 I had the same idea for Dota, because back then that copyright infringing version of Leoric was just a oversized Warcraft skeleton with a one handed sword, a shield and no crown. I asked a modder to make a model which had a two handed sword and a crown and a guy named HappyTauren used the “skeleton” of the Warcraft bladedancer to create it. Unfortunately Icefrog who was overseeing development of the custom map known as Dota did not like the idea of adding another custom model to the map, because the file size was already too large in his opinion (remember this was 12 years ago). Ultimately we agreed to only add the Crown to the existing skeleton model and that is how the crown was introduced in patch 6.55 .
Since Dota is now owned by Valve the possibility of a old school D1 Skeleton King is pretty much gone, unless it is implemented in Heroes of the Storm. I also don’t care about Dota that much anymore since I am only playing Hots these days.
I think that adding a D1 skin to Diablo would also be nice. Since we have high quality official concept art for the original Diablo it would be a really nice gesture for us nostalgiabros. You could release it with D4 as well. I would buy it either way.
I wanted to add some links about the old Leoric modding stuff, but unfortunately I am not allowed.
Do they change their weapons that much? No.