They were all bought out within about ten minutes of that post being made, like I said probably by the curious. The hex codes for each bow are identical.
New account, limited resources, perhaps all they had on hand to dupe. Probably only on AH because the lesser quality wouldn't sell through trade channels, where most dupe items have probably been sold until now.
Sell all, collect 12 million gold, buy a better item, dupe seven times, repeat.
We've been used to a design in Diablo 2 where MF simply improved your chances are getting gear in a better colour, affixes were not a concern. Yet now, we are presented with a system upon where after the game checks to see if an item will roll at its highest tier, it now follows a series of brackets to determine the quality of its rare status.
Why is this a problem? It's twofold. Because the endgame right now IS rare items, and we also have item level to contend with, players are left with two options.
They can farm act 1 with high MF for the significantly rare chance of finding an ilvl 63 (or 62 jewelry) item with a reasonable chance of rolling 5-6 affixes
They can farm act 3 with little-no MF for the uncommon chance of finding an ilvl 63 with a very low chance of rolling 5-6 affixes
It's standard fare to accept that only those with gold values in the tens and hundreds of millions have the capacity to find quality farming gear that also has MF. Therefore, the vast majority of players are in a lose-lose situation. Either method offers you a staggeringly low chance of even acquiring a 5 or 6 affix, high ilvl rare. And this is even before getting into the huge variations on affixes that can spawn on those items.
Diablo 2's farming used to be like penny slots, if you tried enough times at single, quick runs you might not get much, but there was a pretty solid chance you would walk away with something pretty nice after a low to moderate amount of time invested. Diablo 3's farming is like buying a jackpot ticket. More expensive and the chance to get a return of sizable value is astronomically low.
I don't know what else needs to be said. This tier of affixes garbage has to be taken out, and each rare item needs an equal chance of rolling all its possible number of affixes. I would say increase the minimum # affixes on high level items to four, but that would probably be too much fun.
It seems the new rule is that if they're out of combat for 10 seconds, they get all their HP back. Definitely makes getting a really bad timed jailer/waller/teleport/vortex/frozen orbs everywhere moment exceedingly frustrating.
Dem rings.
http://www.twitch.tv/cybrixz/b/325170495
Start at 2h25m.
The method is also being 'sold' on D2JSP, although to trust anything from there would be a sketchy proposition at best.
Sell all, collect 12 million gold, buy a better item, dupe seven times, repeat.
Confirmed by multiple sources on the forums before players in their curiosity bought them all out. Each bow had identical stats, some now on RMAH.
edit: the stats: http://i.imgur.com/3phw0.jpg
Why is this a problem? It's twofold. Because the endgame right now IS rare items, and we also have item level to contend with, players are left with two options.
They can farm act 1 with high MF for the significantly rare chance of finding an ilvl 63 (or 62 jewelry) item with a reasonable chance of rolling 5-6 affixes
They can farm act 3 with little-no MF for the uncommon chance of finding an ilvl 63 with a very low chance of rolling 5-6 affixes
It's standard fare to accept that only those with gold values in the tens and hundreds of millions have the capacity to find quality farming gear that also has MF. Therefore, the vast majority of players are in a lose-lose situation. Either method offers you a staggeringly low chance of even acquiring a 5 or 6 affix, high ilvl rare. And this is even before getting into the huge variations on affixes that can spawn on those items.
Diablo 2's farming used to be like penny slots, if you tried enough times at single, quick runs you might not get much, but there was a pretty solid chance you would walk away with something pretty nice after a low to moderate amount of time invested. Diablo 3's farming is like buying a jackpot ticket. More expensive and the chance to get a return of sizable value is astronomically low.
I don't know what else needs to be said. This tier of affixes garbage has to be taken out, and each rare item needs an equal chance of rolling all its possible number of affixes. I would say increase the minimum # affixes on high level items to four, but that would probably be too much fun.