How long did Act 1 take me on my first playthrough? Or how long does Act 1 take now? Since that's some difference...

Honestly, I haven't really got times for completing things. I haven't paid that much attention. I think my saves are around 24-26 hours to make it to Act 3 (Doing every side quest, killing every enemy etc). But a lot of that is my optimizing runs as I repeatedly played those acts while trying out different builds. Seeing what works, what items are useful and what are bait...

I haven't done much in Act 3... Since when I was getting ready for it Patch 4 came out and broke it... By the time Patch 5 came around to fix it I'd kind of lost my will to play it and instead have been more into the games I was playing while Act 3 was broken...

But yeah, I get how you feel. I technically never finished DOS2, as I got most of the way through the last area, was max level with every item for my builds and so it's hard to simply go through the motions of the last few fights just for the game to end...