Diablo 3 is fundamentally broken

[Tal]

If you mostly play solo, you can be generally immune from that. But then you'll get to some point in progression (say, Inferno Act II, where there's a gigantic jump in difficulty), and realize that you can only progress through hundreds of hours of farming gear. You will either like this setup, or you won't. To each their own.

Just posting an update now. I wrote that on June 6th. It's now June 18th, and I have acquired the gear to handle Act II - to an extent. I've adopted a mobile-Barbarian mindset, using both Leap and Furious Charge due to the necessity of running away from Act II mobs constantly. I have almost 900 resist all with War Cry and roughly 8500 armor, and can still get 3-shot by certain champion/rare mobs (spiders especially), leading to guerrilla-style tactics of leaping in, tanking something for 5-6 seconds, and charging out.

I've defeated Belial in groups a number of times, but there are still champion packs that, depending on the abilities, are simply parked and ignored for being unkillable. I recall one that made me laugh - Invulnerable Minions, Illusionist, Arcane, Frozen. Just completely impossible. Upon any engagement, the screen would be littered with arcane orbs and frozen spikes.

White mobs in Act III destroy me with ease - I have to use the hit-and-run tactics that I use on Act II champions/rares. And thus the cycle begins anew...

I'm stuck in Act III Hell on my clvl58 Barbarian and I'm not sure how much farther I'll go in D3. Every time I start up the game I run into something that makes it a total slogfest.

For example on Sat morning I logged in and headed out into the battlefield. I ran into a champ pack of flying morlocks (the winged beasts) that was Illusionist (or horde - I can't remember except that there were 8 of the minions) and molten as the primary attributes.

Everytime I engaged one, it would run away and wake up more monsters, which in a way was a blessing since it was my only source of revenge procs and heal orbs. I finally set into a rhythm and would find a minion and chase it into a corner where between my minion and I we could pin it and kill it. All in all it took 15 minutes, I had gone through a ton of potions, my wrist and hand hurt from clicking so much and I was entirely wrung out from it. Oh and it dropped a blue quiver with strength on it.

After that I sent a tell to TD saying 'Eff this game' and logged into WoW and spent an hour merrily destroying people in WSG.

I've had offers from people to help me get over the current hump and to level 60 so I can start playing Inferno. I'm just not sure from what I've read that it will be something I want to do. I play the game for fun and a challenge. Not to be frustrated by a grind.