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Game is 2000% percent better than launch.

Awesome evolution in such a short time. I've been having a friggin blast.

This man won the internets. 50 points to gryffindor!

Gold has been plummeting in value for quite some time.
And come on, people think about it, this game was never designed for players to run around with billionaire banks.

In my opinion it is going to be a real good thing that more and more items are "flooding" the market. Eventually it will get to a point where just your regular gold income will be what you require to pay for an item you need.
And blizzard is smart, she know this will make a great divide beetwen the AH and the RMAH, what will eventually happen is that everything good and lower will be found in gold AH. And never for nearly as crazy a price as currently 1-2 billion bid only items...
And the real deal, perfect or neaar perfect rolls and BIS items will be found in the ah, for as high a price as people will be willing to pay (my guess is $250,00).

And lets face it, the way legendaries are dropping now every single player out there really has a chance to get items he needs, or even items a friend needs and he can just trade them for whatever said person finds that he can use.

I deffinately approve the change the economy is gonna go through.

My personal advice is BURN ALL YOUR CASH!!! and keep just some gold to feel confortable with (maybe 20 mil). Spend all you have in making your character MP6 or MP7 worthy asap and you will be in the vanguard having more and better items available sooner then the rest of the players.

I cleared Act 3 inferno 3 times and Act 2 one time. Never wearing a red gem.
LVL 7 already.
And that took me about...6 -7 hours maybe...

2cents.

First up, I'll say I've used the AH for both buying and selling. I dont bother trying to sell anything anymore, since I quite simply cant be bothered. I'd rather just be playing the game than spend time price checking and keeping an eye on the AH.

I dont actually like the AH though becuase to me, its just thrown the balance and enjoyment of the game completely of the rails.

1 - Buying stuff isnt really rewarding. Its great to improve your character and win a bid, but finding an awesome item after taking down an Elite pack or Boss was kind of the point if playing Diablo (for me anyway). This leads to..

2 - Not using the AH, seems like an easy solution to the 'reward' feeling being lost from actually fiding gear in game, but honestly, I wouldnt be playing D3 anymore without the AH. If I relied on drops I would have to keep playing either Hell/Hell or A1 Inferno over, and over and over again until something decent droped and enabled my character to proceed further. D3 just isnt that entertaining and most stuff that drops is rubbish and theres not much else to do in D3. Blacksmithing anyone?

3 - Once you've made it too Inferno with your 1st character, you will likely have enough Gold to buy gear for every other character you decide to play up to 60 with ubber gear, effectiviely activating 'God Mode'. Again, you could argue to simply not use the AH, but I know its there. I know that almost EVERYTHING that drops is TOTAL RUBBISH compared to what I can find on the AH for a few Gold in a matter of minutes.

So with all that said, although the AH itself is cool, it has done way more harm than good to Diablo.

Im making an account on the forums after a lot of time lurking just to give my point of view.

First i want to make clear that the "only online" gaming is NOT because of the AH. Blizzard explained, and makes perfect sense, that the "only online" mode is to prevent users to fully have in their computers the game "engine/server/game background", to make it WAY harder to hackers to make things like dupes, automatic picking bots, (d2loader, anyone?), maphack, etc etc. As the game is now, the engine that generates monsters, items, loot, characters, maps, is always on a secure blizzard server probably guarded by 3 snipers and laser alarm beans all over, and 2 or 3 D2 sorceress casting firewalls every now and then.

Regarding the AH, i dont see how it prevents people from enjoying the game. I can understand that it can be frustrating to grab an item, think it is good, and then run to the AH just to see that there are millons better, and that your item is in fact "crap".

Well i have a lot of "crap" that i found that i have hanging around for future chars, or gave to friends. On the other hand, i have on my sorc a 700dps crappy weapon (i cant afford a better one) and almost perfectly rolled rare shoulders that could sell for 50M that i found and love (yes... shoulders). The good thing of the AH is that i have the choice to trade those shoulders for a new weapon whithout any stress, but my choice is keeping the shoulders because i like them.

So, i think the problem is not the AH, but the way the AH makes people feel about their items.

What i DO miss is that the AH gives people some "closeness" to the godly items (even though you cant buy them), everyone already saw a windforce on the AH. You dont get that feeling of admiration/envy when you see fighting beside you that powerfull demon hunter with the best bow you can get.

On the good side, the AH is like a mini game inside the game of diablo. you can play to be a millonaire withut even killing 1 mob. In my old days i had a clan teammate that handled all the trading because he really enjoyed doing so. He didnt even had a lvl 80+ character. I bet he is having a blast now.

It must first be recognized that loot drops are not determined by any computer generated models or Random Number Generators but rather by Blizzard’s developer of all things worthless, the Marquis de Sade. The following rules and suggestions will help to make your futile attempts to find something of value perhaps a bit more efficient. However, my experience in these forums is that this advice will fall on deaf ears.
1. The value of drops is in inverse proportion to the effort required to attain them. Therefore Ghom, Siegebreaker and Azmodan will never drop legendaries.
2. Since shrines of any type are never placed where they can be of any benefit, you will not find anything of value within five minutes of activating a Shrine of Fortune.
3. Resplendent chests contain far more junk then normal chests. If your backpack is near to full, ignore resplendent chests.
4. Never achieve 300 (375 buffed) MF. That is considered arrogant by the Marquis and you will be penalized for it.
5. Keep in mind that more valuable gear seems to drop after you have reduced your MF thru gear upgrades, perpetuating the theory behind #4. Therefore, always carry additional gear to artificially reduce your MF during runs of ACT3 should you inadvertently level up.
6. In the rare case that you do find a legendary item, never identify it during the run. It is far better to proceed in the misplaced belief that you have something of value rather than in a depressed state realizing you do not.
7. Your follower may be stealing your legendary drops and selling them behind your back.
8. Never assist that stupid blacksmith in the Depths. If he had anything of value, do you think he’d sell it to you?
9. Hold onto those crossbows with strength, those mighty belts with intellect, those wands of dexterity. Blizzard is planning a new character class; I think it’s a Koala.

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mf is still useful, you will plenty of legendaries before you get paragon level to negate hvaing mf gear trust me. you will most likely never reach max level paragon anyways.

hes too blind to realise this i still dont see what hes bitching about hes geting gold find ontop of it.....so untill he links his set with 300%MF and GF hes just some QQer who wants to be a special snow flake....not because he nearned his money he prolly got a lucky drop and sold it for a shit ton

Irony of calling me blind when I linked to my gear/profile in the first post is palatable.

He said "until you link your set with 300% MF." Your set is well below 300%, thus his statement is true. We get it you can switch to a terrible weapon and use your follower to get an extra 7% over the cap...big woop.

yea not to mention the FREEEEE gold find you get with the paragon levels.....if soem one was at 300%+MF AND GF....id see theyre side but this guy isnt hes just leaching off groups to buff his dps and allr esist to seem useful

Magic Find: 255.00%
world:
2000

thats your world ranking for mf on diablo progress...theres 1,999 more people higher then you...i dont hear them complaining