Diablo 3 is fundamentally broken

[Chesspiece_face]

Are the changes made in Act 2 onward only? Cause I just logged on with my Wiz and tried to do a Butcher run and I noticed NO change in the difficulty. If anything it seemed a little bit harder, and the new repair costs just SUCK. Makes me want to play Inferno even less now, since they made the already harsh death penalties even harsher. Booooooooooooo.........

Meh, even if they did make it easier, they are still going by the philosophy of "monster over powered, player under powered", and this is just not how it should be.

Act 1 difficulty is the same. If you had geared heavily towards attack speed, however, you probably have taken a hefty hit to damage.