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I completely agree, the auction house makes magic finding pointless. I've bought everything my wizard needs off it already. What's the point of doing any more? I'm already over 30k life and 8k DPS, and I have my next 2 weapon upgrades lined up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Timman_24
The AH is going to kill the longevity of this game.
They will do with the AH the same thing they did with WoW – whenever there are too many high quality items they just patch in some new items that completely nerf the old items, and then they jack up the difficulty on the mob that drops the new uber items.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rush
I still remember the Tier 1,2 and 3 item sets in WoW. My brother completed up to T3 for his Priest. It took him forever. Then BC comes out and all now blues better than the 50 hours worth of work you put in running dungeons over and over. They are on like T20 now or some nonsense like that.
They'll do the same thing in D3. They've probably refined it down to a science. I suspect that there is some threshold of trading 60 Rare and Legendary items where they'll just patch in some new items and tweak a boss battle.
The auction house hasn't ruined loot finding for me because I haven't bothered to go in there outside of once for less than a minute out of curiosity. Pretty simple solution IMO.
On another note, I just broke 1k dps on my 38 monk :-)
Grats! Damn you! I'm level 40 and my char sheet is saying I do 800. XDQuote:
Originally Posted by Trunks
My crafter is Lvl 3 and makes a few yellow rares now... and that's my route...
kpx, you do know about 'w' key to switch weapons, right? as for changing skill layouts, not sure on that one either...
What! I didn't know that!Quote:
Originally Posted by proxops-pete
The expectation is that by level 60 you will have chosen a build that you will stick with. At 60, you are actually given a Magic Find buff that stacks whenever you kill Epic and Champion mobs and resets whenever you quit the game or swap a skill/rune.Quote:
Originally Posted by kpxgq
The merchants generally sell crap from what I can tell. Every once in a while you'll find one holding a Rare though, and that's usually very good.Quote:
Originally Posted by kpxgq
this game is essentially borderlands to me with a much more interesting athmosphere
I don't quite get this "chosen your build" stuff. I find myself switching up spells multiple times during an Act, depending on the type of enemy or engagement. I've found a few skills I try to keep in the bar, but even those swap out from time to time. I definitely don't think of my character as having a "build"
Perhaps as I find items that are keyed to particular skills that will change, but I duhno. I feel like it won't.
Or is that from Torchlight II beta?! >.< I may have that confused/mixed up...Quote:
Originally Posted by Kamakazie
I think this is the case. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by proxops-pete
I'm pretty sure W switched loadouts in Diablo 2, but I'm pretty sure I tried to do it in Diablo 3 the first day I got it and nothing happened. I had been meaning to look up online if there was a way to have two loadouts but I just keep forgetting.Quote:
Originally Posted by proxops-pete
I just got my blacksmith to level 6, and noticed I could craft a new Rare fist weapon. It crafted with +3x dex, +8-11 damage, +1.05 spirit per second, and 1 socket. Originally it was ~65dps, added a Perfect Ruby and it boosted it to ~85dps. I was happy to finally craft something useful.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kamakazie
Yeap. Crafting is all about being able to create a decent item with a socket, then boost it to awesome. Sockets are random though, so sometimes you have to craft them a few times.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trunks
So is it worth spending the money levelling up the blacksmith then?
John
Honestly, there isn't much else to spend money on unless you buying stuff in the AH.Quote:
Originally Posted by Johnmcl7
I was worried about spending money on him then finding out later I really needed it for something else.
John
You don't have to spend money on them. I suppose you could just save all your cash and then buy items from the AH.Quote:
Originally Posted by Johnmcl7
Point is, there really isn't anything to spend money on. You don't have to stack pots and runes like in D2.
I do think the AH ruins finding loot. I mean there is no bind. Which means even if you only get double vendor price it's still worth it to put it on the AH. So you can always find tons of gear for next to nothing.
WoW always had sinks to take stuff out. In this game with no bind, basically all gear stays in forever unless someone wants to vendor it.
This would appear to me to destroy any value in finding loot pre 60.
Unless like monroeski said and you just avoid the AH but that is hard to do when it's there.
I'm only at 30 but without hesitation I vendor all blues without even looking at them. I stacked quite a bit of crafting mats so I don't even bother to convert them anymore.
AH is destroying the game but also in a sense, AH has become a part of the game itself?
I think this review is the best I've seen on youtube, and he explains the AH pretty good about how it has really screwed up item drops compared to DII.
http://youtu.be/y37xLXwGo50?hd=1&t=8s
Honestly, I don't think a bind on equip would matter either. The loot drops so fast and furious in this game that the AH would be overwhelmed with bind enabled anyway. I'd say the best policy would be to have Bind on Pick Up super items that can only be had through quests or major boss battles and then have extremely rare items for the high end AH crowd. IMO the best items should only be available as BOP.
I have found the best drops to be from Elites, not Bosses. Actually I'd say bosses have some of the worst drops. That's just from my experience.
This is by-design. Blizzard didn't want people doing boss runs in this one, so they introduced the Nephalem Valor buff and put the best drop rates on Champs/Elites.Quote:
Originally Posted by Snakespy
This.Quote:
Originally Posted by Timman_24
There should be a combo of BoP items, and then super rare BoE drops.