Bumping this thread because t minus less than a day until Diablo 3. The anticipation is killing me
Played for about and hour and a half this morning with the Demon Hunter. So far very basic ranged class with a two "builder" attack options. (either a richochet/penetrating shot or a snare shot) and a hate finisher "either a rapid fire machinegun or a single target heavy damager that stuns) Then I get a brief stealth and a ground snare I can drop, which are based off "discipline" which regens slowly on its own, hate regens pretty quickly on its own and each time I hit an enemy with my builder I get more hate.
Builds seem to be limited by what 6 abilities you slot into your 6 total hotkeys (1-4 and mouse 1 and mouse 2), then you can use a "rune" to enhance the skills you use. You can change your setup on the fly but the skills have a cooldown when you do and monsters won't stop! So you can respec all you want basically but not in combat. You'll want to turn off the option for slotted hotkeys to allow you to make your own choices of what you have. Otherwise you only get the ablity to slot one of each type in each hotkey slot.
So far snaring doesn't matter, on regular difficulty in the begining nothing hurts me much. Very cool game.