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[Diablo 3] Reports of the Economy's death were greatly exaggerated
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Honestly, this post is awesome. I remember when I was geared like that back in 1.0 Holy Crap!
Like others in this thread, friend me, and catch up with me tonight. I have some gear I can throw your way which will be a huge upgrade over what you are currently rocking. Some IK gear, an old Skorn, stuff like that.
Inferno was nerfed into the ground from when you last played, so you'll find that with the hand me downs you get from us dudes you'll be able to crush inferno with no Monster Power enabled.
At that point you farm for loot and the game is what you make it.
D3: Caretta#1196
Pretty much. I finally caved and slapped down $5 on some emeralds before the AH went down and turned them in 600 million gold. I can now buy pretty much anything I need to play the game at high levels of MP and enjoy it, while still looking for shit like the ingredients to make Hellfire rings and such.
I agree that the AH, and the RMAH fucked up the game's economy in a big way compared to D2.
Some duping/buying player would come on and throw a Shako, perfect circlet, perfect charms, bugged lances, high level runes, etc. into the trading window.
I would respond with my best tradable items: SIGON'S GUARD! FROSTBURNS! RARE SPIKED CLUB!
I eventually had a high-gear player toss me a SoJ out of pity.
Also, the idea that you have to spend money to compete is laughable. Using the AH, sure, since trying to find usable stuff is impossible but it always was. However, I haven't spent a dime and can do MP5 just fine. Partially that's because Incidnidium gave me a pretty great weapon. Sure I can't do MP10 yet, but, I mean, who cares. And maybe if I tried the rend / whatever build I could seeing as how I have pretty decent gear, but I don't care to try yet.
it was only a BK sword so w/e
edit: I mean, what was that, 8 years after D2 launched? If not longer?
I REALLY wish this were true. It sounded like such a fun goal to work towards.
Instead, trying to farm even just keys on my demon hunter proved frustrating and I knew she'd "never" be capable of soloing ubers at a decent MP, while other classes can completely trivialize them.
Some people with those classes offer ring farming out as a service for only a few million gold. While, yes, you do have to be standing there for the wardens' deaths, that is the only thing you "have to do".
Thanks to what I assume is an unintended function of parties and banners, you dont ever have to even see an uber to get a ring. :rotate:
they seemed very valuable in game because they were powerful and had ridiculously low drop chances, but in reality they were cheap, and the items used by 99% of the people were also cheap (in dollars)
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i'm pabrt#1613
not right now though, maybe on the weekend or over summer sometime
Actually, what's the deal with ubers? If I can handle MP5 for the most part, can I handle them at MP5?
only certain classes can solo ubers effectively, unfortunately. barbs can do it pretty well but it's gear dependent
In D3, there's no true item sink. The new crafting recipes are a step in the right direction, but it's not nearly enough in comparison to the gold that is accumulated every day (also considering they're account-bound meaning it's not an infinite gold sink). The more gold enters the market, the less value the currency will have (inflation). When you're for example saving up for that 6% mempo, and a month ago it was worth 1 billion in gold (as an example), but now it's doubled in price due to the devaluation of gold, your progression bar has been increased. Given the fact that low to mid items will also lose value (supply > demand), it becomes increasingly more difficult to gain wealth (near perfect items will not lose as much, if any, value).
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Oh I know, I'm just bitter about the class balance disparity when it comes to certain content. But hey, it worked out in the end because I've been having a lot more fun on wizard, especially now.
I actually have 3 machines we could use at some point. But really, with the new co-op, I ought to friend more of you anyway.
Do you even know what inflation means?
I play the AH game as much or more than I play the actual killing Demons part of the game so I'm always looking for cheap upgrades for gear.
Basically I'm able to stay ahead of inflation by buying stuff at a fraction of it's market value and using it for a while and then selling it before it's lost all its value.
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What I would like to see from the itemization update is a shorter curve of raw power in gear, and more affixes that are specialized for particular builds. So it's not that unusual to find a piece of gear that has amazing stats, but it might not be for the build you want - but you can still change your build to take advantage of it. That way even when you're decked out for MP10 you still have the goal of accumulating gear for new builds.
But you could just tear down everything and sell materials you didn't need.
You couldn't scum the AH for 'the best' gear, but still had access to getting good gear if you put in the effort.
What does "too powerful" mean? The AH is not batman.
Then no one would use the AH, but would use third party sites to trade gear.
Forcing people to only use gear they self generate us terribad.