Quote Originally Posted by Sam-u-r-eye View Post
Many builds are roughly equal in power, lately. I think you grossly overestimate the power of a "broken build." Granted they have continued power creep in an upward direction, but their decision to balance upwards has been largely successful. Past lives are worth less relatively and the builds have been democratized.

However, with balancing upwards they haven't increased difficulty to provide for a real challenge. The best they can do is scale upwards a bit at the very top end. There will still be hard difficulties for other people and I like that we will run that difficulty most of the time. That is how it should be. EE should never have been epic easy.
The builds certainly don't seem equal in power to me. There is a big difference between bringing a well-built shiradi caster and an assassin into the new series. Your wizard is a solid build with past lifes, gear and game knowledge and failed. You completed with cheats on a difficulty scaled for 1 person. Assassin and Cleric would be a bit more challenging than wizard I would think although I didn't try it with those classes.

Do you have epic ring of spell storing and bauble? I am just curious if that was used in addition to the spell point potions you used to complete.