Diablo 3 is fundamentally broken

[MongoJerry]

No, I get it MJ. That's why I started it with "I think." I'm not sure exactly what goes through your mind. Of course I'm not. But judging by the tone of your posts and your choices of words, you give every appearance of regarding Inferno as a similar difficulty increase as the ones before it. This is not the case at all.

Fair enough. I'll let you know what my general assumptions really were. Before the game was released, Blizzard released some developer diaries that said that the expectations were that players would farm the end of Hell for a while to be able to do start Inferno Act I, farm Act I for a while to be able to start Act II, and farm Act II for a while to be able to start Act III/IV. There also was a brief mention of gear specific to each Inferno Act. (I guess they were just talking about ilvl 61, 62, 63 gear -- but I had imagined fancy Act specific sets, legendaries, etc. pre-release).

This video led me to assume that the power of mobs in each act were designed to scale as if each act of Inferno were a difficulty unto themselves, but I had also assumed due to the developer diaries that the gear in each act would also scale with the difficulty and was disappointed to find out that it didn't. That's what led me to the (wrong) speculation that perhaps Blizzard had held back on some gear.