Thank you for your kind words Sir!
I stopped playing the game after I cleared the last expansion because it took so much time to theorycraft and make builds, it became an obsession 
To answer your questions:
- items+classes: too easy, devotions are much less impact than the class specific bonuses and abilities. Also the extra stat points as the class levels up are immensely useful.
- I wanted to do a grey items only build just before I quit but never happened afterwards.