As teased by Blizzard last week, Diablo Immortal’s getting a new playable class, and it’s arriving next week! Diablo Immortal’s new class is the Blood Knight, the first new playable class from the Diablo universe in nearly ten years. Diablo Immortal’s Blood Knight will be available in Diablo Immortal starting July 13 as a free-to-play class.

A trailer for the Blood Knight class has also been released. Watch it here:

The new trailer features a cinematic of a blood knight fighting a vampire, with the blood knight unleashing his powers and turning into a monstrosity to take the vampire down. Some in-game footage of the Blood Knight class is also showcased, featuring a combination of melee and ranged attacks for hybrid gameplay.

The recent Diablo developer update livestream delved more into the Blood Knight and how it worked. Here’s a brief summary of the devs discussing the Blood Knight, as well as a few questions from the Q&A at the end relating to Diablo Immortal, taken from this Reddit post.

Diablo Immortal

• New class, the Blood Knight, out July 13th.
• First new class to Diablo universe in nearly 10 years.
• Wanted to make a monstrous supernatural class that does something different than necro.
• Bloodknights and vampires are intertwined. Vampires are living plagues, people who’ve they’ve bitten devolve into monstrous thralls. A Bloodknight has the curse of being a thrall, but “thralldom” frozen in place, get some advantages and drawbacks. See in the dark, doesn’t age, smells blood from a mile away. Blood red eyes and black veins, abomination deep in their soul that hungers for violence.
• Hybrid melee class. Mobility is limited, life stealing and sustain focussed class.
• Has a skewer “kebab” style attack with a stun. Combo style. Legendary essences that let you lunge and leap.
• Has a primary attack that is melee when close, ranged when far away. Kind of cool versatility in one button.
• Tons of legendary essences, can become an abomination (Transformation skill that you need to defeat enemies to fill a meter) entire skill bar changed to new skills.
• Can play blood knight right away through campaign, custom VO lines through the quest.
• Class change improvements – strength and intelligence convert properly. Players during the event can change to bloodknight with a one day cooldown, infinite reverts.
• Crimson Plains event, fractured plain is rogue-lite inside of Immortal for 15 levels of trying out different skills. Start with a fresh class and build it was you progress. Crimson Plains is an event to test drive Blood Knight.
• New legendary gem coming. New items associated with the patch, “full set of legendaries” coming. Every legendary will be listed on blog afterward.
• 2000 voice lines in total, voice ators are Abby Trott and Brent Pendergass

Q&A

• How much will Blood Knight cost? Will cost nothing. Free.
• Can you say which cosmetics will be transmitted between characters? For instance in Immortal, in regards to transferring cosmetics, if you buy a cosmetic prior to blood knight will it transfer over? Purchases will not be retroactive, but will transfer over going forward.
• Immortal: Was there some sort of Castlevania inspiration for the Bloodknight? Inspiration comes from all over, spear from Vlad the Impaler, want to be inspired by everything but not feel like a grab bag of tropes. No turning into mist or wolves.

Diablo Immortal’s Blood Knight class will be free to play starting July 13 on all available platforms.