Diablo 5 Demon Hunter: What We Know About the Class

In its panel article, Blizzard describes the Demon Hunter as a hunter of Hell’s forces: it fights with twin crossbows, strikes from the shadows and leaps across the battlefield to annihilate its prey. That makes it the ranged fighter among the three revealed classes.

Senior game director Joe Shely added in an interview with Esquire: “A Demon Hunter has light armor and twin crossbows. They’re extremely agile, pinning demons against walls.” Light armor, lots of mobility and demons pinned to walls – that is how the team sketches the class.

The Demon Hunter was one of the five base classes of Diablo III, released in 2012. In Diablo V, Shely says, it should feel “familiar but also new at the same time”: “It’s a new representation of the class. It’s going to be different, but you’re still going to have twin crossbows.”

Art director John Mueller explains the return by pointing to the time that has passed: technology was different in 2012, and with everything the team has learned since Diablo IV, it wants to deliver the best version of the class in 2029.

During the panel, Blizzard showed a black-and-white sketch for each class. The Demon Hunter wears a hood and a billowing cloak over light armor and holds a crossbow in an outstretched hand. The pose looks like a mid-air leap. The sketch is concept art, not an in-game image.

In Diablo III, the Demon Hunter used two resources, Hatred and Discipline, and fought with crossbows and bows as well as traps and sentries. This is a comparison with the earlier game: whether any of it carries over to Diablo V has not been announced. Only the twin crossbows and the agile playstyle are confirmed.

Still open (as of October 19, 2026): skills, resource, skill tree, other weapon types, class mechanic and group role. Blizzard plans to show more on combat, progression and builds, with regular updates from 2027. What is known about the other classes is in the class overview, and the basics of combat are on the gameplay page.