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{{Class skill archive top}}<span style="color:red;">'''This page archives original versions of Wizard skills that were changed during development. These are archived for future curiosity and reference. This page is not to be updated with current info; see the Barbarian skills article for the latest information about this classes' skills.'''</span>
The [[Wizard]]'s skills were first revealed in October 2008, at Blizzcon. They were shown again, in much-expanded form, at Blizzcon 2009. The biggest changes occurred at Blizzcon 2010, after all the passive skills had been moved to the [[Wizard traits]], this removing all passive skills while freeing up space for more active skills.
* [[Skill]]s -- General skill design and mechanics of [[passive]] and [[active]] skills.
* [[Arcane Power]] -- The Wizard's class [[resource]].
* [[Wizard skills]] -- The current state of the class. All are active skills.
* [[Wizard traits]] -- Where Passive skills are housed in Diablo III.
Please note Note that the Wizard's resource has changed greatly during development. From [[Mana Globemana]]s currently are not in the game. , to [[ManaInstability]] is instead gained from , to [[Health GlobeArcane Power]]s, and perhaps back to mana. Skill costs have varied wildly as the different resources changed, and skills have changed as well, with early skills to generate [[Wizardmana globes]] might not even use , or to gain mana in a classical sense as a from [[resource poolhealth globes]] at , all. Pending mroe information from Blizzardremoved with the change to Instability and then Arcane Power.
See the [[skill|skill article]] for further details on how the tier systems evolved, and the skill system in general.
 
 
==Blizzcon 2010 Skills to Traits==
 
The biggest change to the skills came in Blizzcon 2010, when the new non-tree skill tree was debuted, with all of the passive skills modified into various traits.
 
xx skills were added:
* [[xx]]
 
xx skills were removed entirely between 2009 and 2010. Many of these were turned into [[Wizard Traits]].
 
* xx Skills
** [[xxxx]]
See Here's how the [[Wizard skill|skill article]] for further details on how navigation looked prior to Blizzcon 2010. Many of the tier systems evolvedskills remain, and the skill system though most are modified in generalvarious ways. {{Skill navbox conjuring}}{{Skill navbox arcane}}{{Skill navbox storm}}