The characters in Diablo 2 are going to be very different from the characters in Diablo. First of all there will be 5 classes! There will be two spell casters, two fighters, and a hybrid of both!!! Each character will play differently from the other. There are a lot of differences between the characters, even though the attributes list will stay the same. Spellcasters will have a melee weapon and tons of spells, fighters will have lots of cool fighting moves!!. The fighting moves are new and they will make it so that fighters can be just as good as spellcasters (as in diablo spellcasters had the advantage).The fighters will only be able to cast a few spells, and they can only do it through lame scrolls or staves :o(. The hybrid class however, which seems to be the best choice will be able to cast spells and do fighting moves :o). With such diversity in the characters Blizzard is hoping to make the experience of playing each character totally different (a good idea!).AND, EACH CLASS WILL BE CUSTOMIZABLE!! This is great, because not every player will be able to master the fighting moves of every class (unless you play the game waaay too much :o) Another added bonus of the customizing is that two people could be the same characters but play totally different because they'd each know different moves.