Game: Path of Exile

Looks nice. Although nowadays i'm not a big fan of MMORPGs (too much grinding), I used to be addicted to games of this genere some years ago. Imo they look way better with this kind of view (from top) than 3D mmorpgs.
I'll give it a try

I'm playing it. Usually on the Singapore server (type it in the box manually).

It has much less grinding than I expected for an MMO. Low enough that I can actually play it for the story (it's less an MMO for me than a Diablo-like with occasional coop multiplayer from friends).
EDIT: I just kill everything I see and that's enough grinding apparently. At least enough to compensate for my 500ms lag.

I played with some friends a few weeks ago, got a Scion to level 60 and we beat Dominus on merciless, and I haven't played since. It was my first go at a Diablo-like, and the endgame is apparently just grinding out on the same old stuff for better gear, or currency drops to buy better year. It was fun while it lasted, but it isn't the kind of game I will play in the long run.

I didn't spend any money or ever feel pressured to spend money on it though, so nothing lost there.

Remember ElTorero to tell me what class you chosed so i will know what weaponds to spare from trading.

Blergh. Why you compare it with D3? I never played that. Compare it with D2!

Show me your passive built Saktoth

The way the game works is you finish the 3 difficulties, then you play through randomly generated maps. That's the endgame content. My groundslam marauder cannot do them. It was just a brick wall, they were too hard for me and give few rewards.

Mawrawda was a character from before the 'launch', before Dominus was added. His passives were reset, I might respec him if I can be bothered to play him again, but I'd need all new equipment if I were to go, say, a discharge build.

Of course you crush at level 43. Level 43 is easy. Late game you need 5-6 links: Your chest piece, and your weapon if you're 2H. Just getting a 5-6 link on these is pretty expensive, especially if you're upgrading often, but once you have that many support gems the damage will be much higher than any of your other skills, and you can only afford to link 1-2 skills in this way.

My advice to you is focus on Spectral Throw. It's safe and has a high DPS potential. Note that any melee damage nodes you took are useless for spectral throw, it scales off of projectile damage. With enough damage, you won't need any other AoE skills, but a high damage single target skill like heavy strike can be useful if you have the HP to facetank an enemy: Otherwise, Kite everything with spectral throw. But I can't offer much else without seeing your passive tree. PvP is mostly just for fun, I wouldn't spec for it.

Here is Sconemy's passive tree. I was playing hardcore so you can see it's specced almost entirely for HP: http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgABAnEEswhnFE0YXRkuGlUn7Sj6MZ4yfjWSNug6UjrhPC0_J0GHRmlKyEz_TeNQUFRJWGNYr18_ZKNodG6qeA2Cx4LkiPGKr4xYjM-QEZSgogCmV6loqW6sWa9stfK3PrndxPbFisauxtjUj9hN2mLnUudj7w7wH_Iv8kXz3fZI-ej-Cv6P

Not nearly as useful for Standard because you want to spec mostly suicidally high damage to do fast clearing.

Telling me all your stats is a bit of a waste of time, at level 43 you play for a few more hours and that's all going to change anyway, you equipment, stats, dps, everything.

Ohh regarding the changing of weaponds and stuff, i just use what i can find and worked for me well. I also finished the game and all quests alone and i never needed help. I intend to keep it this way until level 70. Curently i have some things storred in wh that i dont use ( lots of orbs) and il use them in the proper situation.:).

You can basically just mess around until Merciless (Or, Cruel Dominus at least). The game can still be challenging, particularly on hardcore: Plenty of players will just get freeze-locked by Hailrake, which means dying only 10 minutes in. In standard though, the only obstacle to progress is when you hit a point where you are losing XP faster from dying than you are gaining it from killing things, or where you just cannot find any upgrades to your equipment. That tends to happen only in act 3 merciless. You don't even lose much time from dying, in Normal sometimes it's faster to die than to waste a town portal.

I don't just mean you'll use the one skill the whole game, and wont be able to experiment (Though it means leveling up a new gem and often changing socket colours or weapons) I mean at any one time, you'll only by using one or two damage skills. So it's just ground slam or heavy strike or spectral throw over and over and over.

Auras are build decisions, out of combat, so that doesn't really factor. You do tend to use a mobility skill, but only for mobility: So it's just a kind of positioning mechanic, like walking. Positioning can matter, but it tends to just be about getting everything in your AoE and not getting sorrounded. Curses are generally only for bosses, since everything else dies in a few hits and is thus not worth cursing (The DPS you lose by spending your time cursing does not make up for the damage or lifesteal or whatever lost from doing so). If you use something like enduring cry you do have to hit the button every time your charges are about to expire, but that's about all there is to it.

This is where Diablo 3 did it better. It had a lot more skills that were on cooldown, so you had to time them right to mitigate attacks, and position yourself to use them correctly when the cd was up. The resource management was more interesting: In PoE everything just drains from the same pool, so it's mostly just a cap on DPS (Which makes the game way more boring when it runs out) rather than about management or resource draining skills over non-draining or replenishing skills. Resource management is an out-of-combat thing in PoE (Other than hitting the potion button), you just need to make sure your regeneration is higher than your consumption. Though PoE's Flask system is lightyears ahead of Diablo 3's health orbs, I do feel that using a town portal a dozen times in a boss fight is a bit dodgey.

Diablo 3's combat was just more engaging for me. Though, the difficulty curve was way too shallow, so you just spec for ridiculous damage and faster clear, to the point that multiplayer becomes about who can get to the pack and 1-shot it first. There is also less point to actually engaging in the combat, since the rewards to grinding just don't feel worth it (Particularly with auction house, which I actually enjoyed playing as a market simulator!). PoE's currency means that you always feel like you can get an upgrade on what you want, though getting 4, 5 and 6 links in the colors you need begins to become prohibitively expensive later on every time you upgrade.

Yeah, they really shaped the difficulty curve for knuckle-dragging morons. Diablo 3 is informed heavily by MOBA's, with the idea that you have a set of skills that do not exceed your number of fingers, that operate with positioning, combos cooldowns and mana in such a way that you want to use them all to the greatest effectiveness. They forgot that what makes that interesting though is a competative environment that push the high-execution requirements though. Inferno was incredibly difficult though, and got ridiculously hard very fast. This is because you stop leveling at 60 and have to grind out better and better gear to complete inferno, the power curve on equipment suddenly jumps 10-fold or so at leve 60. That's really what killed d3 for me, if the difficult was about your build and execution it would be fine, but when the difference between lowend gear and highend gear is so steep, it's the only thing determining success.

Given that the races are for a set time period it is crazy that you have to be online at a certain time to play in them. Just start the timer when the player creates the character so you can compete in these races at any time in a 24 hour period, especially the solo ones. Good idea but terrible bit of design there if you ask me. This is why I've never participated in one: I waited for one once but got distracted and when I came to play I'd lost too much time and it was pointless. It really does seem designed for hardcore nolifers who can schedule their whole lives around this...