First Hardcore Inferno Belial Kill (by a Barbarian, too)

[kandrathe]

Whether bosses were (too) easily run or not has, in any case, no bearing whatsoever on my point.

Oh, I know. But, the ease in which D2 delivered "teh awesome lewt" was a detractor, not a feature. The game became entirely dominated by certain supposedly super rare items, that were not so rare because people figured out how to cheat the game (bots, dupes, whatever).

If the game does not stand on the combat, and you must have the feeder bar dump out a monty haul of fatz lewtz in order for it to be fun, then it maybe is not the right game. I'd rather not play "Diablo III - slot machine version".