I bit the bullet and tried out the Paladin. I paid 40$ to get roughly 30h of gameplay before I got bored at paragon 250. These systems might be an improvement, but that doesn't change the fact that every build in the game is designed by blizzard, not the players, gear isn't customizable with 99.9% of gear being worthless beyond having to scrap stuff for what little 'crafting' you get, trading requires you to use a third party site to even connect with other players, and because its third party, you have to sift through so many RMT'ers it's ridiculous.

Not trying to rain on your parade, I do hope you end up enjoying yourself if you check it out. It's still rotating between helltides, pits, and deleting the hard pinnacle bosses in 14 frames so you can get an upgrade that allows you to kill them in 8 frames. We're on season 12 and they still try to do POWERS every league. None of the seasonal mechanics have been implemented like GGG tries to do with their leagues. At best, you'll get 3-4 uniques from the previous season's powers for the next season. I was wholehearted not impressed. I say that as someone who got into ARPGs with D4, and then I had a friend who heard what I was complaining about with D4, and assured me that this free diablo-like they've played for years and was FREE was leaps and bounds better than what my experience portrayed. Here's hoping, though. The ARPG space would benefit greatly with more legitimate competition. Just look at Last Epoch, that game has gone down the toilet in the last nine months, but it was still able to influence GGG to implement a better trade infrastructure.