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Diablo Immortal Just Got Updated with New Class Animations and Models on its Chinese Website

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Source: https://diablo.blizzplanet.com/blog/comments/diablo-immortal-china-website-updated

First, let's take a look at these new class animations.

The UI of Diablo Immortal also got newly designed.

【UI Analysis】

[TOP-LEFT CORNER]

▻ Portrait, health bar, and your level is also shown there.

▻ Any buffs are shown below the health bar, and some of them stack up to 10 times (maybe more).

▻ The PLUS sign is most likely to invite a player from your friends' list. Another video shows two-faces instead of the PLUS sign. The two-faces mean multiplayer.

[TOP-CENTER]

▻ Here you can see the health bar of monsters.

▻ The left side shows the level of the monster.

▻ At the far right of the health bar you can see a paw. This tells players the type of monster: Humanoid or Beast.

[TOP-RIGHT CORNER]

▻ Mini-map gives a bit more of real-estate in the shape of a rectangle, instead of a circle or square shape.

▻ The location name within the zone is displayed there: Tamoe Mountains.

▻ The bag icon is the Inventory.

▻ The three lines above the bag icon is the Menu/Settings. Here we might be able to access our account/profile page, graphics and volume settings, and other unknown other features.

[BELOW THE MINI-MAP]

▻ Below the Mini-Map we can now put a name to the person icon we see to the left of the Barbarian portrait.

[BOTTOM-RIGHT CORNER]

▻ Ability buttons are located here.

▻ The big button is the main attack. A 1/4 of a circle bar is filled — that is the indicator that tells you when your Ultimate ability is ready

▻ We can see that when the Barbarian casts Whirlwind, he can’t cast any other abilities until the duration of the Whirlwind is over. All other buttons get greyed out and a “No can’t do” diagonal line across the circles.

▻ There is a circular indicator around the Whirlwind button when you press it that tells you how long until the animation is over.

▻ Most of the Barbarian abilities have a 10 seconds cooldown.

▻ Among the buttons we can see: Charge, weapon slam, Ancient Spear (chain hooks), and whirlwind.

The Health Potion stacks beyond 25+ and easily accessible above the ability buttons UI.

[BOTTOM-CENTER]

▻ At the bottom center, we have the usual chat bubble icon which means you can toggle on/off the Chat window.

[BOTTOM-LEFT CORNER]

▻ Time of the day/evening.Battery power remaining Wi-Fi / Signal strength

【Gameplay Analysis】

The new 2020 gameplay video gives us a lot of information that we haven’t seen before at BlizzCon 2018 or 2019.

In this image you can see the Demon Hunter channeling Strafe (as seen in the long bar (bottom-center). It tells you that the Strafe animation ends when the bar is fully empty. The Strafe button also gets a circular alert how long before the channeling animation ends.

There are three icons below the Hero’s portrait. He has 10 stacks of running speed it seems, and the other two could be buffs of some kind. It is unknown if debuffs are also listed here.

Another observation is the dagger icon at the left side of the Hero’s portrait. What does it mean? The PLUS sign is seen here with two people which makes me think it is a LFG tool.

The mob the Demon Hunter is targetting is curiously level 60. That is 15 levels above the player. It is marked with a horned-skull which could mean it is an elite mob.

The mini-map shows the location name, but there is a skull to the left of the name. Is this some sort of dungeon icon?

While the Demon Hunter is strafing… you can’t cast other abilities — those are greyed out and have a diagonal line across the button — and if you look carefully, you can’t drink a Health Potion either while the Strafe animation is channeled.

Here, we have a quick view at a new UI element. It is unknown if this is a chat window or if it is a in-game boss dialogue window. There is a gear icon at the bottom-right corner of this black transparent window and a mic icon. Voice chat? Or a in-game dialogue audio toggle on/off? I guess we will find out soon.

Now, as the boss teleports into the room we see that this guy looks a heck of a lot like the big outdoor monster from Diablo 4. He is level 46 like the player, but it has a giant skull which means deadly. As the boss rushes in, it hits the player by 2062 damage, knocking a fifth of the player’s health bar.

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