Game: Diablo III

[KrayZ33]

im playing selffound, can't afford the gear either (the ones which would be an upgrade)

found a 980 dps 2xbow with +230%(!) crit dmg, which ends up being better than my 1200dps xbow.

i'm farming siege breaker/pony lvl
but the game is a pain in the ass, its no fun to farm siege breaker anymore because the loot is not rewarding enough, given the fact that 1 run can take up to ~20 minutes and I might die 20 times... or 0 times
ranged mobs are totally broken in this game...I have to stay focused the whole time and thats not what I want from a game like D3...

I want to calm down after work, go farm a bit and be happy about loot I may or may not find.
atm I'm leaving the game as soon as I die 2-3 times in a row to a stupid mistake, whether I have 3 or 4 NV buffs doesn't matter...its too much work

switching gear everytime you kill a boss (then switch again and put it back into the stash because it takes up 60% of the inventory), switching gear everytime you cleared the pony lvl for the clouds etc.... gosh, the inventory is way to small... everything takes ages.

[Assertn]

How are you guys making money to buy this gear? I'm farming the skeleton king right now, I've no doubt that I can farm the butcher, but I'm not making all that much gold. Do you sell stuff on the AH?

I've been able to solo the butcher on inferno using gear that ive gotten on sale. I hadn't spent more than 100k on any single item up till that point. Then again, I suppose my weapon, chest armor, and helmet were all gifted to me by another monk friend of mine, as well. I'm now at the point where I'm spending about 1M per item, so things are going to slow down for me pretty fast soon.

On a related note, the RMAH is up now. So, you can always opt to buy your gear with real money if you don't want to grind for hours on end.

[Uchiha Barles]

Yeah, I guess this is going to be slow. I'm looking at the gear costs on RMAH and for some reason I just can't bring myself to spend as much money on a piece of gear as I spent on the game, just so that I can beat inferno...I beat the game 3 times already. I'm playing a wizard though so hopefully the cheap gear will do. Though, if they eventually implement their plans for pvp and it doesn't suck, I'll be throwing money at gear.

[Uchiha Barles]

When building the Staff of Herding, does it matter what difficulty level you assemble the pieces from?

[Animeniax]

A buddy of mine who has played Diablo and WoW for years said that Blizzard intentionally makes it so you can't beat their games solo just from equipment you find in-game. You essentially have to use the auction house to buy eq, if not necessarily the RMAH.

[UChessmaster]

Untrue, at least in WoW.

[Animeniax]

Untrue, at least in WoW.

Well yeah, but I just mentioned WoW to let you know he's played a lot of Blizzard games. It might be a generalization but there might be some truth to it.

[Uchiha Barles]

A buddy of mine who has played Diablo and WoW for years said that Blizzard intentionally makes it so you can't beat their games solo just from equipment you find in-game. You essentially have to use the auction house to buy eq, if not necessarily the RMAH.

I suspect that's true to some extent to ensure the success of the AH. If everyone could reasonably progress through the game with just in game gear, then the AH would mean a lot a less and probably fail. The sheer size of the loot table caused by the number of stats and variety of combinations makes it fairly unlikely that you yourself are going to find gear with the particular stat distribution you need for your playstyle. Someone'll get it though and put it on the AH. And just to solidify things, gear most people need to progress in inferno (melee classes in particular) doesn't drop in the acts that they are capable of beating.

[Y]

That's completely untrue because, as the developers stated, they tested without the auction house active. That's the reason they were surprised by people bitching about legendaries and whatnot - because they didn't have access to ideal equipment for their level via the auction house, legendaries were more useful while leveling.

[Uchiha Barles]

That's completely untrue because, as the developers stated, they tested without the auction house active. That's the reason they were surprised by people bitching about legendaries and whatnot - because they didn't have access to ideal equipment for their level via the auction house, legendaries were more useful while leveling.

Normal, Nightmare, and even perhaps Hell difficulties, this is true. This breaks down at Inferno. They tested Inferno difficulty for lvl 61 mobs which appear in act 1. Indeed, you can beat act 1 pretty handily with only gear you find. This becomes way harder for the beyond the first, act 2 in particular, in which mobs of lvl 62-64 appear. If I remember correctly, they did NOT test for lvl 62-64 mobs.

[shinta|hikari]

They never even finished inferno. I have, and I can say that it is broken.

I am selling all of my stuff in the RMAH so that I can fund Tera online. I just earned enough to get the game as of now. I may get even more if all the stuff worth anything sells.

[KrayZ33]

made 100€ in 2 days, probably able to get around 300€ or more from my character, don't feel like selling his stuff because I might regret it

the funny thing is, I thought I could buy games and stuff in blizzard-store
basically you can't buy anything if you own every blizzard game already, gj blizzard. gj....

my only hope is that heart of the swarm is going to be released there right after release, if not, im going to be really pissed.

thats moneymaking at its finest
I wanted to buy games for my friends there and now I'm sitting on 100€ and can't spend a single one of it, they just took the money without offering something in return.... awesome

[Assertn]

made 100€ in 2 days, probably able to get around 300€ or more from my character, don't feel like selling his stuff because I might regret it

the funny thing is, I thought I could buy games and stuff in blizzard-store
basically you can't buy anything if you own every blizzard game already, gj blizzard. gj....

my only hope is that heart of the swarm is going to be released there right after release, if not, im going to be really pissed.

thats moneymaking at its finest
I wanted to buy games for my friends there and now I'm sitting on 100€ and can't spend a single one of it, they just took the money without offering something in return.... awesome

Why didn't you just select to cash out via paypal?

[Animeniax]

Why didn't you just select to cash out via paypal?

Maybe European paypal doesn't have that option, what with their economy in ruins. Or maybe he doesn't have a verified paypal account.

[KrayZ33]

I don't own a mobile phone, believe it or not, I have no use for it,
and I thought I'd be able to buy Starcraft and Diablo for my friends.


however, I'm thinking of buying a prepaid one for 5€ or something like that.

[Animeniax]

I'm with you, cell phones cause cancer and car accidents. But I got tired of having a P.O.S prepaid, so I got an Android pre-paid:
http://www.amazon.com/AT-Avail-Prepaid-Android-GoPhone

I'm finding D3 is too easy once you get super-powered eq for your low level characters. My level 25 DH is blasting through normal with 300+ dps. When I first started the game with my monk, I was lucky to have 150dps at level 25.

[Uchiha Barles]

These repair costs are ridiculous. I'm paying more for not dying than I used to pay for dying before this patch. If the goal is to punish dying, why punish not dying as well by a blanket increase in repair costs? Could they not figure something more reasonable? Geez...

[oyabun]

made 100€ in 2 days, probably able to get around 300€ or more from my character, don't feel like selling his stuff because I might regret it

the funny thing is, I thought I could buy games and stuff in blizzard-store
basically you can't buy anything if you own every blizzard game already, gj blizzard. gj....

my only hope is that heart of the swarm is going to be released there right after release, if not, im going to be really pissed.

thats moneymaking at its finest
I wanted to buy games for my friends there and now I'm sitting on 100€ and can't spend a single one of it, they just took the money without offering something in return.... awesome

If you really want to take out your money there is one option. You can have a friend with paypal account to post a an item on RMAH and you purchase it using your blizzard account. It is legal and if you don't mind the the 15% cut + $1 transaction fee, it is the best way to take out your money from your blizzard account.

[Assertn]

These repair costs are ridiculous. I'm paying more for not dying than I used to pay for dying before this patch. If the goal is to punish dying, why punish not dying as well by a blanket increase in repair costs? Could they not figure something more reasonable? Geez...

I estimate that about 10% of the profit I make from a run goes back into repairs, and that's without dying. Add to that fewer rare drops, fewer gold drops, and fewer elites from my usual run... now might be as good a time as any to take a break for a while.

[KrayZ33]

30k after dying 5 times

I die more than often enough 10 times or more in a run, depending on the rare packs

not fun....
not to mention that my IAS is so fucked up, I need to buy a bow but the ones currently avaible are simply put... shit