Diablo 3 is fundamentally broken

[kandrathe]

Yeah Blizzard likes the auction house, but you guys give them too much credit. They didn't even finish playtesting Inferno. You'd think if the RMAH endgame was that important, they'd have this all mapped out properly. They just came up with a bunch of neat boss abilities, then threw them into a mixer to be randomly combined in any completely unbalanced way on any type of mob. That's about the extent of thought that went into them.

Yes. I think this is the majority of the problem people have. Random is nice for variety until you get a very, very, very bad roll of the dice. The crux of gear planning, farming, and even skill strategy and tactics are that you can predict and prepare for eventualities. Until you find that combination that is your Kobayashi Maru.

But, memories are short. In DII, I do remember bypassing certain combinations of Conviction Aura and MSLEB. You might burn them down from range and off screen, but stand toe to toe? No, not really. Not worth it.