You can still play on nightmare and early hell with crappy items in diablo 3, just as you could play on nightmare and early hell with a crappy skill set in diab

You can still play on nightmare and early hell with crappy items in diablo 3, just as you could play on nightmare and early hell with a crappy skill set in diablo 2. The only difference is now you can take your character from suck to non-suck by grinding it, while in diablo 2 you had to start over and grind it.