It's pretty hard to die in anything but Inferno, lol. You have to try really hard. :p
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I strongly believe this to only be true if you are two of the following things:
A. A Monk.
B. A Barbarian.
C. Heavily kitted out thanks to the AH.
I'm almost through Act 3 on Nightmare and there are definitely big bad scary champ mobs out there that kill me if I'm not careful and regularly kill my squishier friends.
I die all the time. It's just part of being a Demon Hunter lol.
I never said there was anything wrong with using the AH. I am only using it to sell right now and when I hit Inferno, I'm sure I'll be using it to buy as well. I was using it for gems previously since it is so insanely cost-ineffective to combine gems, but since the commodity auctions have been down for over a week, I haven't been buying anything.
100% false - it's incredibly easy to die anywhere past act 1 in hell difficulty if you aren't ready to run into a seriously bad-*** group of champions. I was coasting the game with my wizard using diamond skin and doing ridiculous damage, but once I hit that point, certain champion groups starting blowing right through diamond skin in less than a second.
As a point of reference - a barb in my group that rarely ever died prior to hell difficulty is now getting whacked an average of 2 times an act. And he has something like 50k life and pretty good defense. Granted, on anything other than those mobs, he seems pretty much invulnerable.
Me personally... I play a ridiculously offensive style with my wizard that will probably see me dying 50 times an act in Inferno. But with tons of life and almost 40k DPS, I haven't really had to slow down yet. :D
It's better than the merchants for sure. I haven't really been checking comparable equipment prices when I make my sales so I'm probably greatly undercutting everyone, but I've been selling equipment for 3k gold.
I'm level 48 right now, so sure!
I haven't touched the auction house and I'm playing totally solo (barbarian) and I've died a fair number of times just in normal. Belial in particular killed me 5 or 6 times, seemed to be basically one shotting me with his AOE attack.