Diablo 3 is fundamentally broken

[Roland]

I have the opposite problem regarding grouping with ranged. I can solo Act 2 now, but I'd really like to group with a ranged dps both for variety and to hopefully clear faster.

However all my demon hunter friends more or less give up and stop playing that character after they try Act 2. One of them is from Australia, and deals with 300-500ms pings which really doesn't help.

Just tried advancing through Act 2 with Monty. We got our asses handed to us by an IM serpent pack. Gave up. He couldn't tank and I couldn't DPS. I understand it's not always like this, but all it takes is one bad mob pack to ruin your play session. Act II simply isn't any fun without massive gear investment (millions of gold), and/or boring cookie-cutter skills. Know why I'm still only halfway through Act 2? Because instead of spending my gold on a 1.1k DPS bow I've been spending it on defensive gear. As such I can take about 2 hits in Act II, but can't dish out enough DPS to beat certain mob packs. So, I'm stuck waiting on 1.0.3 to fix the game for me.

We did a few Butcher runs instead. Much more fun, and managed to get a couple hundred thousand gold out of the deal. Probably not enough to buy anything off the AH, but maybe I can upgrade some more gems if I feel like wasting gold.