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[Jeunemaitre]

yep, my lvl 80 barb is going in the bin and starting from scratch.

I feel the same way. I pulled out my mid 70's barb last night to look at skill changes, and decided that I have to start over with a different concept.

When I popped down to the worldstone keep lvl2 I expected to be accosted by the regular hoards of spawn and succubae, however, I was smack in the middle of 2 soul killer packs, and a really annoying group of poison skeleton mages. Needless to say that my frenzy speed couldn't compete with the swarm of little men, and may wayward HF merc was no help, so I'm dead. Dying 6 more times in that same little area was not a welcome thing.

I was really hoping to see a greater variety of challenge, I was really scared when that pack of soul killers ran out to greet me, but once I realized that was all there was, they became more of an annoyance than a challenge. Aside from a flurry of merc deaths, the rest of the keep/throne run was easily accomplished, and as always, nutboy was a piece of cake.

Rather than making a fundamental change in the game, Blizzard has made it temporarily harder by forcing a shift in skill attention: I used to be able to tank my way through, but now I'll have to assign a few more points to [insert your favorite crowd control skill here]. However, once the masses adapt their uber set-ups to the new paradigm, the game will be in the same state it was: power players with nothing else to do spending their time questing for specific items, and once found, they'll shift to the cows.

I think it's time for me to start playing variant styles...