Wizard skills in BD, ONLY offensive ones =>
elemental attack (5)
elemental curses (5)
Body Magic offensive (disease, polymorph, slow, blind, paralyze, pacify)
Shaman weather => (meteor, acid rain, wind of furies, lightning storm)
Shaman nature => (insect swarm, spikes, earthquake, hammer)
ethereal => elder fire, fireball)

Warrior - craftmanship - convert arrows (12 different sorts)
Survivor - traps - convert (12 different sorts)

This is only a small example, Badass. The demo doesn't show how to use these skills, correct - but this demo shows all skills as well, so I have an outlook.

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Badass:
A game demo is like PR so you need to show a sample of the very best. This demo turned me off and that's not a good sign.

I guess it is very difficult to show a sample of the very best. From reading the reviews and weekly peeks I gather this game is very complex. It is done in acts - in chapters. How to show the best then? What is the best? Fleeing out of this dungeon is Act 1 => the easiest part of the game, so gamers can get used to skills slowly (teachers coming one by one), enemies are not so powerful.
In Act 2 => you've escaped and wander around on the surface of this continent. How would you be able to survive if you are not familiar with at least some skills? Have you looked at screenshots?
In Act 3 => you're coming nearer to the main enemies, they're powerful. How will you survive in a demo? Even if you start with a lvl 15-20 char...

I only know one thing => if BD is similar to Diablo I wouldn't buy it, I detest this kind of hack'n slash, I want to wreck my brains on riddles - develop emotions, take sides (done so already, when I saw the slaughtered Raanaar corpses and the slavery of imps IN the demo). This is different than just killing/looting my way around with nifty graph effects when I kill.

And in spite of gamers claiming Diablo to be an RPG => it isn't! Au contraire, this game has caused immense damage to the RPG genre, caused a downfall, a degeneration, gave way to an era of fastfood games. Diablo is only this in my eyes => a 3rd person shooter in a superficial fantasy world.

[color:"yellow"]Please, keep in mind: I'm not attacking gamers liking to play Diablo - I criticize the theft of a genre: RPG. I criticize if Diablo is set as a standard for a genre it does NOT stand for.[/color]

In case you wonder: I've played pen&paper RPG for many years - I like Div very much, because I mourned for the old Ultima tradition that was forsaken from Ultima 8 on - so I had to swallow very often when Div was called a Diablo clone. Maybe you can understand my rant better now, even if you disagree <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />
Kiya