Act 1 is fighting while undergeared. Getting some gears with lucky charm or thievery will completely destroy enemies.
Act 2 is all about exploring and leveling up your gears to keep up with enemies stat as you unlock source skill. Once you get that level 3 source spell, everything become a breeze even with mages because they have fairer version of Arrow storm.
Act 3 is where mechanics start to happen, a lot. Even with high stat, certain fights won't end unless you fulfill the conditions, like flaming undead lizard people skip will never die unless you kill it once then bless it to weaken it before killing while making sure no necrofire is in vision range.
so you are saying dont steal or open any crates during act 1 until said skills are high enough
act 2 what ur saying is basicly a no brainer
act 3 thats when tactics come into play and by then hopefully the nerf bat will have lowered enemy base stats by 25% or more. "from what you say act 3 does not need nerfing base stats as thats when you are on a even footing?"
think i got that right, thats right ye ? ? ?
EDIT: to the people who have played early access and know exactly the route to take and places to get gear take a bloody second and think what if you did not know, WHAT DO YOU SAY THEN in that situation lol, that being the situation of basicly everyone that has not spent as much time in the game as you.