Personally, I'll be playing Demon Hunter first, mainly cause I love playing rogue classes. What about you guys? :)

Monk. Gonna beat the living crap out of that Diablo guy...

I will hopefully play this game with my friends and I like tanking, so I chose the Barbarian. It's kinda weird that there is not a more obvious tank, is the Barbarian even a tank at all?

Witch Doctor.

And I will exclusively be spamming toads.

Demon Hunter most likely.

I'm a wizard and that looks fucked up.

I be digging da voodoo mon, witch papa doc be where it's at!

@Vodun: Who do you voodoo, ... err.

Anyway, personally, I'm not sure, Monk and Wizard both seem interesting. Liked the Diablo 1 Mage, but did not quite like the Diablo 2 Sorceress, but a bit worried about how well the Monk is at survival.

Demon Hunter or Witch Doctor, methinks.

I'm usually lazy and end up going the barbarian route, but I'm liking the look of this witch doctor.

@SpunkyHePanda said:

I'm usually lazy and end up going the barbarian route, but I'm liking the look of this witch doctor.

Ripped the words right out of my mouth.

Probably Wizard.

Demon Hunter.

Witch Doctor. Hope I get my PhD until release, for an appropriate character name :)

Demon Hunter for sure.

I'm going Wizard. The basic Magic Missile spell can turn into Cluster Homing Missiles! That sounds like fun to me!

Barbarian since they are the only class that gets magic find cooked into their skills.

Lady Monk for sure. Love the haircut and punching corpses.

Monk, I wanted to play him since the beginning when I saw him. Before it looked like no one was going to play him, but now it looks like people are jumping on.

I definitely want to try Witch Doctor and Demon Hunter.

Demon hunter, love the fact that they are powered by "hatred".

wizard or Monk im going to try something different this time

Between Demon Hunter and Wizard. Probably Demon Hunter, as I always play hardcore and it seems a bit easier to keep a DH alive over a Wizard.

Zero interest in Monk, everything about it seems unappealing to me and everyone on most sites seems to be playing Monk, so it's going to be super overpopulated as well.

Barbarian for sure, almost always play a tank warrior my first play through in RPGs.

Monk. Seems like the class has gotten more popular since the last poll on this. The Quick Look only solidified my decision.

@Management said:

I will hopefully play this game with my friends and I like tanking, so I chose the Barbarian. It's kinda weird that there is not a more obvious tank, is the Barbarian even a tank at all?

this isn't really an MMO where there are hard team roles, where there has to be a tank or everyone dies. Basically everyone is just really good at killing stuff by themselves, and in a team it's even better. Don't really need to fit into a role, just have more damage so stuff dies faster.

The barbarian has several skills that can be runed to draw/knock enemies towards you, which are clearly tank skills, but I'm probabaly just going to use one of them(probably leap attack) to draw enemies in so I can slice them down with my AoE cleave. makes farming much more efficient, and maximizes the power of your AoEs. The fact that you can use it to keep enemies away from your teammates is secondary.

I choose Monk. And after that Monk. And then Barbarian (or Monk).

I chose Wizard but I'll probably be playing a Monk char at the same time. I just think a high level pimped out Wizard will be sick going by the skill calculator thingamabob.

I was thinking Wizard initially, then some of these more recent beta vids make the monk look really awesome.

Witch Doctor. The Demon Hunter looks badass but the little I played of Diablo 2, the Necromancer was so much fun.

It is either Wizard or Barbarian. I like the massive DPS that the Wizard can deal, but I always love playing a huge, hulking barbarian in games.

Female Witch Doctor with zombie bears! Pow!

@Management said:

I will hopefully play this game with my friends and I like tanking, so I chose the Barbarian. It's kinda weird that there is not a more obvious tank, is the Barbarian even a tank at all?

@matthias2437 said:

Barbarian for sure, almost always play a tank warrior my first play through in RPGs.

Monks seem like they might make even better tanks than Barbs, with potentially over 90% dodge, 55% damage reduction, 180% bonus armor, and 50% enemy damage reduction. Plus they get a summon that boosts their max HP by 50% and can help offtank, all by going for something like this build here.

Mnk

The second I saw a monk class I knew it would be my main.

With my friend, Demon Hunter.

With my Dad, Witch Doctor or Barbarian (probably WD)

Solo, Wizard.

Female Wizard

Toss up between Monk and Barb

I'd rank my interest as:

1. Monk
2. Demon Hunter
3. Wizard
4. Witch Doctor
5. Barbarian

The barbarian's style has always turned me off. I'm a little surprised to see the monk rising to the top of the pile, though. I figured barbs and wizards would be getting a lot of the buzz.

The witch doctor seems like a pretty cool guy.

In D2 the melee classes were usually more exciting than the kiting ranged classes, so I'll probably pick Barb or Monk.

My gut reaction was Barbarian, so that's what I voted - but I am strongly considering Monk too. In the previous games I always did the first playthrough with Warrior (D1) and Barb, 'cos I guess its the most familiar. I have fond memories of my Barb wielding dual socketed crystal swords, tearing it up through hell. \m/

Monk. Especially that move/animation canceling is in the game I think it'll become the most technical and fun to play of the classes.

I've been leaning towards monk, but that's not set in stone or anything.

Played as only the Wizard thus far but I'm loving it. Wanna give the Demon Hunter and maybe the Monk a whirl too.

Demon Hunter

Wizard. Monk is my favorite, but that's what my buddy will be playing.

I'm surprised that WD is in second place. I've always figured Barb Monk and Wizard are top three picks for people no matter what. I've been set on WD since before they were even announced. I love me some pet classes.