I enjoyed the Wizard the most of the three characters available in the Blizzcon build. That’s no guarantee of long term fun though, since the characters are kind of apples to pomegranates at low levels.I enjoyed Barbarians in D2, but not until level 24, or 30, or really, 60ish. Late game Barbarians were a lot of fun, with powerful, fast skills, good equipment, etc. I found them very tedious early on, when they could do nothing but swing swing swing single-target, melee style. I wasn’t bored with the D3 barbarian, but he’s pretty much the same thing, early on (though at least his “early on” wouldn’t last until level 30, as it did in D2). The Witch Doctor was fun at Blizzcon, but like the Barbarian, that character is only scratching the surface of her long term abilities at level 8 or 9. One kind of minion, a few fun starter attack skills, but little more.

The Wizard, on the other hand, is just dripping with coolness right from the start. She only had Tier 1 and 2 skills available, but there were 9 active skills to choose from at those levels, and only one or two of them were just some defensive, “use me to succeed in utilitarian fashion.” The rest were all shiny, multi-colored, widely-varied types of attack spell, and all of them were fun to use. So of course the Wizard is the most fun character at this point (in most player’s opinions). How true that would be if we’d gotten to play them to level 20, or 30, or 50, remains to be seen. The Blizzard guys have played much more of the game, and they report a variety of favorite characters, so it’s not like everyone likes the Wizard best and they’re just putting in the others to flesh out the character selection screen.

That said, I did enjoy playing the Wizard most of the 3 characters in the Blizzcon build. She was fast, destructive, varied in her attacks, strong but not overpowered, and just generally a lot of fun to play. As Jay Wilson keeps saying during panels, “Everyone likes blowing stuff up.”