[julsonl]

I accidentally deleted my post, but what I was trying to say previously (in which the parent replied to), was that higher difficulties require thinking, like dodging an Arcane sentry, or moving away from molten/plague pools. Adding to that, I play a monk in Inferno, and I adopted a "guardian" role during group play: dashing and knocking back enemies attacking our glass cannons, healing our tank, breaking CC using serenity (when fighting "Frozen" bosses) and maintaining damage reduction debuffs and buffs, all while making sure that my spirit levels get replenished (or else I'm useless). There's a whole lot more into the game than just gearing up and bashing skulls.

[danudey]

Sure, but the fact that you have to play through the (boring, repetitive) easy mode to get to any sort of challenge takes all the fun out of it. 'Go through the game once without any sort of difficulty before we actually give you something worth doing' doesn't fly with me. If your game isn't fun or challenging on the first play through I'm not interested. I don't want a 'practice run', I want an actual game.

[zobzu]

its ok as a monk i guess.

another issue is that 80% of players (thats a pretty random estimate) are DH.

So here's what inferno looks like:

join/leave/ join/leave/ join/leave/ join/leave/ join/leave/ join/leave/

Because all DH are looking for other classes and don't find it. Its literally a constant spam of join/leave because it's impossible to play with a proper party.

Plus there's some inferno elites you simply CANNOT kill as DH (when the whole elite group as reflect damage for example). you CANNOT have crazy DPS and crazy HP, so the more damage you do the faster you die. If you die/rez (with the increasing timer) the elite will go in rage mode after a while (kills you in 1-3s from distance, cannot dodge it) and while you're waiting, heal all the damage you've done. It just doesn't work.

One of the many reason why Inferno is not that fun. Most people just skip elites by doing run-die-run loops if they don't have a proper party.

[julsonl]

I never play public games and only play with a group of friends, so I can't comment on that aspect. With regards to class distribution, I have a good mix of friends playing various classes (I think I only know one rolling DH).

[guard-of-terra]

Time to come to hardcore, no any DHs in sight. Tho you can easily find parties with 3 WD and nobody else :)