Diablo 3 is fundamentally broken

[RogueMage]

@Treesh - Exactly. Blizzard's antagonistic attitude stands out in their recent response to players' complaints about 1.03's across-the-board IAS nerf:

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5...?page=2#34

Q: The IAS nerf has had a few side effects which I am not sure were considered in the process. Monks and some barb builds relied on IAS to provide adequate healing through either leech or on hit healing abilities. However with the IAS nerf many are finding that this is no longer a viable path...

A: Actually, it was quite the opposite. This was one of the main reasons for the IAS nerf. In fact, if it wan't for those additional side effects, and only about DPS, we likely wouldn't have changed IAS at all.

And there you have it in writing. The oft-heard claim that Blizzard was forced to kneecap IAS because it overpowered weapon DPS wasn't the real issue at all. Blizzard truly hearts DPS and genuinely regards their mission as thwarting players' efforts to craft viable alternative ways to survive and enjoy playing the game. Clearly, this is the ultimate evil that players are challenged to defeat, and fortunately, Blizzard's track record of unintentional side-effects and howling technical oversights provides heartening reassurance. I'm confident that Blizzard's clumsy attempts to retroactively purge players' most effective insights and innovations will produce ever more opportunities to shamelessly exploit the hidden potentials that lie buried within the game.