The Diablo IV beta test that took place over the past two weekends, according to Blizzard's announcement, was the largest test ever conducted for the franchise. We are now in possession of information previously unavailable to us as a result of the official Diablo account on Twitter. This information includes data on the number of times players perished, the most popular classes, and more.
Both the Sorcerer and the Necromancer were consistently voted as the most popular classes during both beta tests
In our review-in-progress of the Diablo 4 beta, we wrote that all three of the initially available character classes in the beta were pretty great, saying of the Sorcerer, The Sorcerer has a similar set of mostly long-range skills based on fire, electric, and ice attacks, but I found them to be better at controlling large groups of enemies (like with a crowbar)
The Necromancer was only playable during the Open Beta
In our review-in-proPlus, dealing elemental damage to enemies and stopping them in their tracks by freezing them or setting them ablaze is awesome – they even have different death effects
We also ranked the Necromancer as one of our favorites right out of the gate
The reviewer Travis Northup wrote that once he got aboard the dastardly train the Necromancer was all he wanted to play
The fantasy of raising a private militia and making atrophy and death your wicked allies is wonderfully realized, and once he got aboard the dastardly train the Necromancer was all he wanted to play
A popular betaDuring the six days that Diablo IV was available, players invested over 61 million hours of gameplay, which is equivalent to a little over seven thousandBut there were also forty-six million deaths recorded, with the Ashava being the cause of ten million people dying and the Butcher being responsible for over a million players being killed
Despite the fact that both of these monsters were the primary reason for many people losing their lives, players were still able to kill the Ashava over one hundred thousand times and the Butcher over five hundred thousand times.
