It's sad to see that so many people only want more and more loot, without thinking about the consequences.
First of all, I DO USE GEAR SWAP for the last hit. And I don't like it. Even if it makes the game easier for me. Gear swap is actually making the life span of the game shorter, removing choice of itemization and inflating the economy.
Has any of you tought that without gear swap, they effectively create more "endgame"?
Now we're farming for the best survival/dps BOTH in one item.(Some just focus on DPS, but whatever), and you have your MF set on inventory to swap when you need.
If you disable gear swap in any way, you'll need dps/survival/MF all in one item, that makes it WAY more difficult to get "top" gear. It makes the perfect item way harder to find.
It also enables "choice" on this game.
Now you just kill as fast as you can and swap your MF gear in for the last hit.
But let's say you can't, will it be worth killing faster or having a better chance at loot?
Is 20% MF better than 10% crit? For those of you who will say "we will just get both", yeah, you will, but it will be harder to find. Extending the farm needed to get the perfect gear.
Also, in some cases, you won't be able to get both. Get a barbarian now, his perfect gloves have: STR/VIT/AR/CritChance/CritDmg/IAS ... that's 6 stats. If he wants MF, he will need to "opt-out" on one of those. That's CHOICE!
To end this, do you complain that the AH is flooded, that the game is all about the AH and that you can't sell a worthy mid-level item for much more than 50k?
Gear swap causes part of this. With MF gear swap, it's like everyone that uses it, has high MF.
It increases the average MF of players, increasing drop rates of good items(and bad items, increasing materials for crafts).
Theres lots of people with ZERO MF on "normal" gear, that effectively have 200+ on the last hit, just because of gear swap.
Can you imagine the amount of "extra" items this creates everyday? I doubt we would be seeing 50k for 1000 DPS 2 handed weapons so soon without these loads of drops. (The nerfs on inferno also did help on this).
Truth now is we have way too much offer, and way too much mid-level items. There's no demand for that much.
So you can't sell that 2 hand even for 50k, because theres too many others; can't buy better gear because you have no gold, and can't progress on the game. Well, unless you get that lucky drop that will sell for 5M, and spend it on an item that will REALLY help you.
tl,dr: Stop looking at your own nose and try to see the whole. You want the game to last, you want goals to achieve, you want choice on this game. But you also want it easier to farm. That's not possible, sorry.
Can't we get a poll on the front page of this site, just to see how things are going in the mind of the players?
Something like this:
( ) Option 1
( ) Option 2
( ) Option 3
( ) Option 4
( ) Option 5
( ) Something needs to be done, but there are better options than 1-5.
( ) Leave it alone
Just so we don't have to read a hundred-page thread on blizzard forums post by post to see where the majority is heading.
You can craft 62 items with 6 affixes, pretty sure 61/62 items can drop with more affixes as well. Higher level items can get more value on the affixes though.
There are ilvl 62 crafts with 6 affixes, but there are crafts with only 4 affixes, (Exalted blah blah blah have 4, Grand Exalted blah blah blah have 6). Stating this so that people won't jump on you saying "I got a lvl 62 recipe and it has only 4 affixes".
Note that sometimes when you see a low roll on dex/vit for example, thats actually one affix, and not 2.( if you check http://www.diablowiki.com/Affixes you'll see in this case it's the "Feral/Wild" affix, so you should see 5 "lines" of affixes on the item, but it would be only 4 affixes, since those count as just 1)
Auction ending in less than 9 hours.
Just a heads up, if you don't have enough money, I may accept barb gear as part of the trade. (Good pieces tho, if it's worth less than 1-2M, I probably don't need it)
Bid Starts at 5M
I think DH could do it too.
The hardest one to do it is probably the monk, since most of monks use 3 abilities of the "defensive" category.
First of all, I DO USE GEAR SWAP for the last hit. And I don't like it. Even if it makes the game easier for me.
Gear swap is actually making the life span of the game shorter, removing choice of itemization and inflating the economy.
Has any of you tought that without gear swap, they effectively create more "endgame"?
Now we're farming for the best survival/dps BOTH in one item.(Some just focus on DPS, but whatever), and you have your MF set on inventory to swap when you need.
If you disable gear swap in any way, you'll need dps/survival/MF all in one item, that makes it WAY more difficult to get "top" gear. It makes the perfect item way harder to find.
It also enables "choice" on this game.
Now you just kill as fast as you can and swap your MF gear in for the last hit.
But let's say you can't, will it be worth killing faster or having a better chance at loot?
Is 20% MF better than 10% crit? For those of you who will say "we will just get both", yeah, you will, but it will be harder to find. Extending the farm needed to get the perfect gear.
Also, in some cases, you won't be able to get both. Get a barbarian now, his perfect gloves have: STR/VIT/AR/CritChance/CritDmg/IAS ... that's 6 stats. If he wants MF, he will need to "opt-out" on one of those. That's CHOICE!
To end this, do you complain that the AH is flooded, that the game is all about the AH and that you can't sell a worthy mid-level item for much more than 50k?
Gear swap causes part of this. With MF gear swap, it's like everyone that uses it, has high MF.
It increases the average MF of players, increasing drop rates of good items(and bad items, increasing materials for crafts).
Theres lots of people with ZERO MF on "normal" gear, that effectively have 200+ on the last hit, just because of gear swap.
Can you imagine the amount of "extra" items this creates everyday? I doubt we would be seeing 50k for 1000 DPS 2 handed weapons so soon without these loads of drops. (The nerfs on inferno also did help on this).
Truth now is we have way too much offer, and way too much mid-level items. There's no demand for that much.
So you can't sell that 2 hand even for 50k, because theres too many others; can't buy better gear because you have no gold, and can't progress on the game. Well, unless you get that lucky drop that will sell for 5M, and spend it on an item that will REALLY help you.
tl,dr: Stop looking at your own nose and try to see the whole. You want the game to last, you want goals to achieve, you want choice on this game. But you also want it easier to farm. That's not possible, sorry.
Something like this:
( ) Option 1
( ) Option 2
( ) Option 3
( ) Option 4
( ) Option 5
( ) Something needs to be done, but there are better options than 1-5.
( ) Leave it alone
Just so we don't have to read a hundred-page thread on blizzard forums post by post to see where the majority is heading.
chu, since you're still the winner at this point, will you be online around this time?
There are ilvl 62 crafts with 6 affixes, but there are crafts with only 4 affixes, (Exalted blah blah blah have 4, Grand Exalted blah blah blah have 6). Stating this so that people won't jump on you saying "I got a lvl 62 recipe and it has only 4 affixes".
Note that sometimes when you see a low roll on dex/vit for example, thats actually one affix, and not 2.( if you check http://www.diablowiki.com/Affixes you'll see in this case it's the "Feral/Wild" affix, so you should see 5 "lines" of affixes on the item, but it would be only 4 affixes, since those count as just 1)
Just a heads up, if you don't have enough money, I may accept barb gear as part of the trade. (Good pieces tho, if it's worth less than 1-2M, I probably don't need it)