If you buy the right items, Hell will become utter faceroll. That said, I don't think the AH is necessary before Inferno: indeed, I didn't buy anything until I hit Inferno and realised I needed to start min-maxing my gear.
Before that point, on my Monk, if I started struggling I would go back an act or two and farm up some gear/EXP. Maybe upgrade a couple gems, switch my spec around a bit, that sort of thing. If I remember rightly I had to go back and farm at least once per Act:
-First time, I got stuck making my way towards the Halls of Agony. I went back to the start of Act 1 and managed to get through from there
-Second time, I got stuck in the many dungeons on the way to Zoltun Kulle. Went back to Act 1 and played all the way through again, then had no serious issues
-First half of Act 3 was easy enough, but I struggled on the second half. So I went back to the start of Act 3 again (this time dinging 60 in the process), then managed to get through the second half.
-Act 4 I struggled a fair bit with, but I don't think I had to go back at all actually. I skipped a few champion packs though (including this vampiric/fast affix that I just couldn't DPS through, they healed too much)
-Wiped for about an hour on Diablo before killing him.
Hell was certainly a lot of fun on my first go through. Second time on my Demon Hunter was lolfaceroll because I decked her out in tons of awesome gear.
Inferno is a completely different story though. You will need to use the AH a lot if you want to make timely progress without weeks of farming. The game is doable without the AH, but you'll take a hell of a lot longer to farm the gear yourself.
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Before that point, on my Monk, if I started struggling I would go back an act or two and farm up some gear/EXP. Maybe upgrade a couple gems, switch my spec around a bit, that sort of thing. If I remember rightly I had to go back and farm at least once per Act:
-First time, I got stuck making my way towards the Halls of Agony. I went back to the start of Act 1 and managed to get through from there
-Second time, I got stuck in the many dungeons on the way to Zoltun Kulle. Went back to Act 1 and played all the way through again, then had no serious issues
-First half of Act 3 was easy enough, but I struggled on the second half. So I went back to the start of Act 3 again (this time dinging 60 in the process), then managed to get through the second half.
-Act 4 I struggled a fair bit with, but I don't think I had to go back at all actually. I skipped a few champion packs though (including this vampiric/fast affix that I just couldn't DPS through, they healed too much)
-Wiped for about an hour on Diablo before killing him.
Hell was certainly a lot of fun on my first go through. Second time on my Demon Hunter was lolfaceroll because I decked her out in tons of awesome gear.
Inferno is a completely different story though. You will need to use the AH a lot if you want to make timely progress without weeks of farming. The game is doable without the AH, but you'll take a hell of a lot longer to farm the gear yourself.