well hints at 2 new playable characters is always a good thing. I want a full breakdown of the torchbearers fire abilities though. it's really all i care about

I just shed a tear..
It sounds so perfect!

The Unclean Beast skills are EXACTLY what I wanted.

Same with the Vampire Lords (bad name.. What happened to the Oak? I guess The Oak isn't that much better though.) A General with friendly aura's and unfriendly debuff auras, and the turning the undead.. That's just too awesome! Exactly another kind of demigod that I wanted!
I hope they buff friendly demigods too.

And omg! Items for your demigod that will buff all your troops! Another thing i wanted. *sheds more tears* I wonder though if it's just the troops you bought, all nearby creeps, or everything around you including other demigods? =]
God.. this game just keeps sounding better and better.

Nooooooooooooooooo! They scrapped The Oak (did they..?)! Damn you, damn you!

I guess I'll have to play some other awesome Demigod then..

They scrapped the name
That's what mattered to me.

Maybe there are two Demigods that can do necromancy, just they do it differently. It's possible...

Yay for more info though!

Sounds like fun.

A few weeks to go until beta!

Although it strikes me that it's very likely that I'll be on vacation in North Carolina at right about the time when the beta comes out. Curses.

He was a guy in armor, I think.

Damn these forums for double posting!

Altough I realise that the more demigods the better, I think I personally would prefer fewer demigods with more skillchoices per demigod (think diablo style skilltrees perhaps?) This way you got more options with your character and arent nessecarily screwed if you face a demigod that "counters" yours.

Well, the artists need to keep working on something. They can only polish the current Demigods to a certain level before they start just playing the game since they don't have any more work to do. I can totally see them working on more Demigods during the beta.

Considering the first betas are going to be based on testing the engine I could see them only having/giving us a couple of demigods, hell we only need a one demigod for the first couple betas, yes it would be boring, but it is true, as the first betas have nothing to do with balancing (or at least its not a primary concern) as bugs, hardware compatibility, and optimization are the first things they need to nail down before balancing the demigods.

So I could see them doubling the number of demigods during the beta.

The early betas are engine, not balance, focused -- judging from Sins, you won't be seeing much (if any) balance work until the end betas. And if, like they did with Sins, they withhold some of the features (*cough*The Advent*cough*) until release to maintain a certain degree of surprise, there's stuff you wouldn't see in the beta period.