As a returning old diablo addict i can see a lot of changes to the game. a few however are just horrible and destroy any hopes for casual players to ever make it on hell diff.
game is designed so every build can defeat baal on nightmare, but to play on hell, only a few builds can. and then you make things even harder with just badly thought through changes like max number of sockets on items based on diff lv.
for instance a shield to make spirit with. ( for non pallies ) first shield that can have 4 sockets is a monarch now ( kite shields use to be able to roll 4 but no more ) so in order to make a lvl 29 runeword that a lot of chars need to survive/have a chance on hell, now only drops on hell diff.
it looks like the entire game is now catering to a small group of players ( the true die hard no lifers ) and the casual players ( about 95% of youre playerbase ) are setup to fail and be disappointed every single time. unless they use 1 of the few sanctioned meta builds that can do hell without uber gear.
i am sorry, as much as i love this game. it has been ruined by bad decisions. sad. just sad.