Some sort of ladder season would be really nice... it's gonna be tough for them to just *poof* away shit that people have spent hundreds of dollars on THROUGH BLIZZARD AS AN INTERMEDIARY however.
I'll be honest, in the past week or so I feel like I've kind of lost some interest... I got my Barbarian to 60 today, spent some gold on the AH to better kit him out and gave him a few things I'd farmed with my Wizard too and just didn't really feel any urgency to finish up with Act IV Hell... Getting a character to 60 is I guess still kind of cool, I think in the next couple of weeks I'm probably gonna try and level a DH and Monk and also get as many possible cheevos as I can.
What he's 100% right about is that the "endgame" feels stagnant. I probably could beat Inferno post-103 nerf with my wizard and the gear he's got now... I honestly just don't feel any burning URGE to do it. And while it's cool that lv 62-63 items will drop in Act 1 sometimes now, I don't like that they LESSENED the chances of getting those items in acts 3-4. I'm not going to pile on about repair costs- everybody is bitching about that and they definitely need to penalize you less for general wear and tear as opposed to dying. Breaking a log or vase shouldn't add 200 gold to your repair costs.
I also maintain that they need to let you choose at least one affix for lv 10 smithed items. There are just so many useless fucking affixes that in all honesty they could probably eliminate altogether or at least on lv 61+ items... if it's not int/str/dex, vit, all resist, crit chance/dmg, move speed on boots or IAS you really don't fucking want it. Increased gold pick up and thorns? Fuck that shit. Every time I'm id'ing a lv 61+ rare I get this strange mixture of hope and pre-disappointment. It's kinda sad.