This patch seems to have made things a lot better.
For one, the new midas gloves are great; as is the ability to actually use the item locker, and the new warghargble sword. For some reason, my item locker never worked before - I tried clicking and dragging. The new easier dungeons are also a great way to amass some gold for preparations later on without having to do generic dungeons without any interest.
You should consider adding randomly spawning dungeons of each difficulty. I'd like to do those instead of just the easy dungeons.