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This is full of assumptions, some of which Blizzard has already disproven.

1) You use the word "trash". Note that rares/champions have to potential to be more dangerous than bosses. This is because they can have random modifiers. Who knows, at Inferno, a Champ might have 4 or more random affixes which, in some combination, can be much tougher than a boss.

2) Bosses are always follow the same patterns and have the same abilities. There are also always in the same place. Thus, you can design a build (takes just a few clicks with this skills system) that is optimal for each respective boss and makes such fight trivial. In fact, if you want to keep all builds more or less equally viable, then certain builds will be much stronger for certain boss fights and thus trivialize the encounter.

3) You can argue that one can simply back off if a rare/champ has a difficult modifier combo, but you can also just back off or focus on certain bosses that work with your build.

In the end, the current set up, if balanced properly, will allow (i) some players to focus on a generalist build that handles most situations well and go rare/champion farming (least repetition, least certainty), (ii) some players to pick a build particularly good for certain boss encounters and farm specific bosses (most repetition but most certainty) or (iii) allow other to do both and simply farm whichever areas they like most.

I look forward to becoming part of group (iii), at least in softcore. In hardcore, I will actually most likely focus on boss fights, as I know what to expect. And, in my experience, what kills you in hardcore is uncertainty/surprises, not simply the HP/abilities of an opponent.

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it effects melee and spectral blade, its been tested in the beta