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The Necromancer will not be a playable character in [[Diablo III]] when the game is released, but the team has not ruled out including the Necromancer as an expansion character. They've also strongly hinted After many previous hints, [[Jay Wilson]] confirmed in April 2011 that players Necromancer NPCs will see a Necromancer NPC at some point be encountered during the gameplaycourse of the game.[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/jay-wilson-diablo3.cc-interview-full-transcript/]
The '''Necromancer''' is one of the seven playable classes in Diablo 2. Refer to the {{iw|Necromancer Necromancer class page}} in the Diablo II Wiki for full details.
* The '''Priests of Rathma''' is the order's real name, called ''necromancers'' by the ignorant who fear them. This association is sometimes referred to as the '''Cult of [[Rathma]]'''.
::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.
The appearance of [[NPC]] Necromancers was confirmed by [[Jay Wilson]] in an April 2011 interview with [[Diablo3.cc]].[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/jay-wilson-diablo3.cc-interview-full-transcript/]
<blue>Well, Necromancers actually already appear in D3 to some capacity. We have some NPCs who are necromancers who appear in the game. As far as a group in the universe, I’m sure we are going to continue to use them.
As a playable class, it kind of depends on what the community wants and what the team wants. When we created all the classes for D3, we did most of those decisions essentially in secret before the project was actually announced, but we really want to see how the game plays and how people respond to it and what they miss, what they wish was there and we will make our decisions. Feedback from the community is always a focus for us whenever we make decisions.</blue>
There appears to be a level of PR in this reply -- the [[D3 Team]] has never ruled out any character from appearing in an expansion -- but it's impossible to know how much this is a serious consideration and how much it's just saying something consoling to keep Necromancer fans on board.
===D3 Necromancer NPC?===
::The Knights of Westmarch and cult of Rathma still exist, so the chances of coming across a paladin and/or necromancer through your travels are pretty good.
