Reply #1: So I watched some guy for a while

[Ohio Joe]

He seemed to be in an open game as people came and went. He was playing a monk and seemed to be kicking ass pretty handily. Most monsters just seemed to stand around and/or move very slowly and he took very little damage. Over a period of 25-30 minutes, he leveled from 6 to 8 and strangely did not seem to do anything during level up... He just got new spells that he tried out... He did not appear to have any spell points to distribute (I believe stat points are automatic but I thought spell points were up to the player) but maybe I missed it. He had what appeared to be a Horadric cube that he kept putting loot he did not equip into... After he completed the quest for Mad Leoric's Crown, he got access to the armorer and I think he was using the excess loot in the cube to have him forge items of better quality. A lot like crafting, where you get to choose an item... Say a Hood... and it tells you what properties come standard and how many random. I assume as he grows, and gets better stuff to work with, he can make better and better stuff.

The game ended with a message from the server that it was coming down till 8:00pm pacific for a patch and a wipe of characters... Bummer, heh.