[Official] Diablo III Information and Discussion Thread - Page 923

tell him that even the best tanks can still die if they are not careful

Hes playing Monk

he should try wd and see how it is to live on the wild side and he probably will stop complaining about his easy mode class

those guys never die. He's doing something wrong

I looked last night, it's over 7.5m atm.

If you remove the chinese gold farming and the ghosted SSN's...I'd say you have a real human number of about 6m.

The economy in the game atm, sucks...There's no really denying that.

The market is entirely player-inflated though...Which is interesting how it happened.

Most GOLD FARMERS actually buy your item off the AH to give you that gold (Not kidding).

So when this whole 20-30m phase started, it was because people were buying gold and being sneaky about it.

Essentially you'd take an item...Notably a crap item and say you bought 20m which, back then was @ 100$...You'd add the 15% because you're helping each-other and then they'd buy it.

You'd obviously write the name down, send it to them, they'd buy/verify and bam.

The market witnessed this and inflation went rampant, very very very rampant...Everyone started doing it...and by everyone I mean, there are very specific reasons as to why there are 20-30m 1000 dps bows atm.

Unfortunately, we're all the "victims" of that "intelligence" or "bastardization" however you view it which, is quite frankly, why the market sucks.

If you want any real game value for items atm, you have to do it in Trade chat which is full of rampant pre-teens and generally morons so, you're chances of finding a good deal drop even further.

MOST people are waiting for the market to stabilize before they start playing again which, you can't blame them for because after act 2, progression is 100% gear dependent.

So when people say they're taking a break and waiting for the hype...The vast majority are waiting for the market to come back to normal which, it will get "more normal" but, never back where it was...

I agree that prices are insain right now. There are still some good deals to make bidding on items instead of buying them out. I have been able to pick up several good items under 15k that I will us on the barb I am lvling up or resell if I won more than one item in that slot (keeping the best for my barb).

Thanks alot

And about the bold part,

So does this means, when you reach some point of the game - lets say in Inferno, and your equipment is average, you have to buy items from AH in order to pass it?

Very much so, and some classes are more gear dependent than others. For instance, I have a barb which is very gear dependent and I have a DH which is very lag dependent. If my connection is running slow (which it usually is) I never touch my DH because each time I get a lag spike or rubber band I am dead. Whereas if I get a lag spike on my barb I can usually manage to come out of it ok. However, there are some spikes that are bad enough that I can't even kill a vase and a skeleton that takes 1 hit to kill will kill me before I can register a hit on him.

You don't "have to" buy items from the AH. It just takes a very long time to get useful items from farming act 1. Most people sell the unusable items they farm and use that money to buy good items for their character to speed up their progress. Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if everyone does this. Hmm, I wonder if there is anyone who has never bought anything off the AH or been given any items and able to clear act 4 with 5 stacks.

Not anymore...For example, I farm act 1 religiously...For ME, it has the best risk vs. reward of any content to date...I roll through it, have @ a 5% chance of getting a 63 item and I leave each run with 30-40 rares, easily.

I start at the blockade Quest, go back to cemetery (someone here suggested this) get 5 stacks there/FoMisery and then I just pop back, do my run.

Takes 45 minutes and I personally feel that it's the best run you could possibly do.

That being said, I do believe you could farm your own items but, it would take a few weeks.

Flipping Unidentified items atm is where the money is at...People spend about 650k on 63 Unid'd Hellracks...And while it's a gamble, on a whim last night, I got a 1200dps/Socket rack...For that 650k.

So, you do have options, be it gambling, the AH or farming your own...I don't believe the AH is required at all but, I do believe that communication with the public, is.