I'll look for that post, I'm sorry it's fallen on deaf ears, as the argument of useless warrior skills is pretty sound reasoning to me, too.
And yeah. Basically, you're forced to optimize a cookie cutter character. There are skills that you're "required" to buy, and the investment in those required skills is so heavy, that you'll never get to do any of the other stuff the 290+ skills promise that you can do. Diablo had its foul run of Cookie Cutters, but there was *some* room to buck the curve. There doesn't appear to be any in BD, which is frustrating -- I enjoy every aspect of the game EXCEPT the character building, which is the MAIN POINT of an RPG.