Mac Book Pro Retina Battery Issue

I bought the new MBPR just over a month ago and have since found that the battery doesn't last all that well. This is especially so when running a few things at once - most of which are very low CPU usage ie excel, mail, safari. My battery time remaining seems to jump up and down from 6:30 remaining down to about 3:00 at the jump of a hat and it's getting annoying as I've found I take my power cable everywhere with me and half the point of getting a laptop is to have the function of several hours os usability no worries running off the battery. Web browsing only, prolongs battery significantly but as soon as I start to do something/anything else it dimishes badly.
Would updating to Mountain Lion help this or is it just a feable excuse to prolong real "support" help?
What does reseting the SMC actually do, is this worth doing and will I loose data? I've done the sleep, restart and shutdown sequence but didn't seem to acheive a great deal.
I run bluetooth for my mouse and wifi for internet.
I've recently taken to playing Diablo 3 and this absolutely destroys my battery life and it literally lasts for under an hour on the battery if I'm playing this - very very frustrating. And if I play any music whilst on battery it drops very very quickly also.
At times the metal above the keyboard and underneath at the same point can get very hot to the point it can become extremely uncomfortable to sit the laptop in my lap.
Having just posted the above my time left went from 6:30hrs down to 3:45hrs and is now slowly climbing back up as I type.... posting the above seems a bit over the top for draining battery life, anyone agree??
I run currently with 50% brightness and about the same on keyboard brightness and have just turned off auto brightness as read that this can help - though annoying that I have to turn off this function and would like ot run with it on as I enjoy it's feature.
Any help would be appreciated - helps hints or tips - I'd love to be able to play Diablo 3 for longer off the battery as an hour doesn't really sit well with me coming from the latest and greatest Mac.
Thanks!

You should also ask this in the MacBook Pro forum. This is the forum for the white and black plastic MacBooks that were discontinued in 2010. You should also post this question there to increase your chances of getting an answer.
https://discussions.apple.com/community/notebooks/macbook_pro

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