Diablo 3 is fundamentally broken

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The next four or five deaths were to a champion pack of the phasing beasts - with vortex and fire chains. So not only could they teleport to me, they could teleport me to them. This lead to so much spike damage that my 18.5k hp DH got practically instagibbed a couple of times (I say practically, because it still took some time, but with potions on a 30 second cooldown and no other way to recover health, it *was* an instagib).

Think you drew the wrong conclusion from your experience here.

Some of the boss abilities are stupidly strong. People stack over 1k resistances (basically best gear avaliable) and still get one-shot by them. Gear answers alot but it doesn't answer absolutely everything. It's arguable whether this is good or not, but bottom line is that desecrator, plagued, arcane enchanted, molten, fire chains etc. aren't designed to be tanked (even if some are actually tankable), but rather you stop standing in the fire when its on fire (when other abilities aren't forcing you into the fire that is.) On some monsters and gear levels it even works like it's supposed to.

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.

The issue I had with these fights is that they were not really matters of skill. As soon as I aggroed the mobs, it was a matter of burning them down faster than they could burn me down. There was no skill involved, because skill in diablo is 95% due to positioning and reflexes and the natural ability of phasing beasts, plus the vortex modifier made positioning entirely meaningless.

The RMAH is the source of a lot of problems in the game (and it's not even out yet), because the only customisation options we have as players is gear and the AH is the best way to get gear.