It's Official Diablo 3 announced

[windbane]

Machina-AX said:

windbane said:

Rath said:
How do we know there are five classes by the way?

In any case I think Paladin, Necro, Barbarian, Sorceress and Witchdoctor would be my preferred lineup of five classes.

Watch the 19-minute gameplay preview on gamevideos or gametrailers. Blizzard guy says 5 classes.

 

That's why I listed 5. However, according to the creator of the Dii.net fansite (a reliable source in my experience), the dev at that Blizzard WWI said that there may or may not be 5 classes - they have not yet fixed a number, so we'll see.

That's fair. They will have to set a few aside for the inevitable expansion, too.