As the title states, I am asking. Who else thinks gold should be worth something in D3?
I really think they should have gold actually be worth something, like have it be much harder to find. Like in WoW.
I hate the fact that runes are basically currency in D2, at least if you actually want to get the items you want. MFing for something you want is totally pointless.
Put an Auction House in for Bnet on D3, and in-game have things like.. resetting skills using gold.. or actually being able to buy good gear with gold from merchants. That would make gold be a bit more like currency IMO. Or so I hope. Just make it a lot harder to get.
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I really hope they do. Did they elaborate at all on how? Even in general?
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but but but if they do make gold worth something, how will i ever be able to drop enough gold to completely cover tristram?
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They stated there gonna make it far more valuable this time around. Thank god to....the D2 ecenomy was an absolute nightmare!!!! when a ultra rare ring or uber rare runes that are being duplicated and suddendly disappearing after awhile are a games economy something is VERy WRONG
Not me. I enjoyed the fact that wealth was accumulated through skillful trading and not mindless grinding. If gold is worth anything, some assholes with 12 hours a day to play will automatically become uber (remind you of any games? cough Wo..)
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Not me. I enjoyed the fact that wealth was accumulated through skillful trading and not mindless grinding. If gold is worth anything, some assholes with 12 hours a day to play will automatically become uber (remind you of any games? cough Wo..)
Thats not true.
One of the best ways to make gold in wow are just buy/sell stuff in the AH.
Of course you also need 6 character with maximized trade skills, so you must use then to buy cheap materials and sell expensive stuff. Also have 2 accounts is very usefull once you don't need to trade items with your character by using the mailbox.
By using this method you can log in the game and pass like 15 minutes, do your trades, and log again after 1~2 hours to get stuff in the mail and make more trades. With 1 hour of game per day you can make a enormous amount of gold.
A important but very bad detail is you have to buy a room in a good raid to get some recipes. As i hate raiding, this was a very terrible part for me, but my brother have raided with my characters and gettred some sweet recipes.
It's a shame what they made with the trade skills in WotLK. Just transformed a great trade tool in a selfbuff for raiders. Still wow's economy are very fun.
And D2 economy was to noob unfriendly to a game that 50% of your character depends on your trade succes.
i dont like the idea of having gold as a main currency i prefer the d2 lod style, but perhaps a tiny bit more valuable
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They stated there gonna make it far more valuable this time around. Thank god to....the D2 ecenomy was an absolute nightmare!!!! when a ultra rare ring or uber rare runes that are being duplicated and suddendly disappearing after awhile are a games economy something is VERy WRONG
.... that obviously wouldnt be a problem in d3 as there wont be duping. so i still greatly prefer items being the currency... something tangible and useful
Agreed. Gold shouldnt be that valuable when its so easy obtained.
You're missing the point. Half the battle to make gold more valuable is to make it harder to obtain. The other half would be giving us more genuinely useful things to do with it.
The point (for me anyways) would be to establish a solid trading medium. If gold can do the same valuable things for everyone, then it's theoretically worth the same for everyone. I'll also point out that a major reason for dupes was the fact that certain items became the trading medium (Sojs).
Giving us a legit way to accumulate wealth just by playing the game would be AWESOME, and I think it's what Blizzard is aiming for.
So, let's brainstorm some good uses for gold that would definitely make YOU want to have some. Anyone?
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So, let's brainstorm some good uses for gold that would definitely make YOU want to have some. Anyone?
Well, as I stated. Being able to reset your character's stats using gold. And have an Auction House.
Being able to get decent gear with gold. Either with gambling or just plain buying. Obviously they should make it expensive, but it's seriously better than killing a boss 100 times a day with a one in a million chance of getting what you want.
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i dont like the idea of having gold as a main currency i prefer the d2 lod style, but perhaps a tiny bit more valuable
.... that obviously wouldnt be a problem in d3 as there wont be duping. so i still greatly prefer items being the currency... something tangible and useful
Even if duping wasnt in D2 gold would probably not be currency as it has barely any use outside repairs and gambling, and if you want it that much you can run trav with some gold find gear on and be maxed out in a few runs. And theres no way im dicussing wether or not dupes will be in D3 again oh god that was no fun lololol
I really wish you could have bought plain armors in D2. I don't want a some cheap magical armor. I'd prefer the thing to be plain. I realize D3s system will be largely different, but I hope shops are generally much more useful. You should have been able to buy gems and..well just a lot more stuff from shops.
Maybe gold for an imbue roll. There were so many possibilities.
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People who still believe that useful items will be purchased with gold, are purely delusional. Just thought I'd point that out.
They should make your items suffer a durability loss as a death penalty and repairs should be incredibly expensive (scaling with gear quality). If you want to die a few times a day, then you better find time to grind gold that day. That way you will be glad and willing to trade an item for a pile of gold to someone. See how simple it can be? Just cut down the incomes and invent unavoidable gold sinks (or seemingly avoidable if you are skilled and persistent).
Thats not true.
One of the best ways to make gold in wow are just buy/sell stuff in the AH.
Of course you also need 6 character with maximized trade skills, so you must use then to buy cheap materials and sell expensive stuff. Also have 2 accounts is very usefull once you don't need to trade items with your character by using the mailbox.
By using this method you can log in the game and pass like 15 minutes, do your trades, and log again after 1~2 hours to get stuff in the mail and make more trades. With 1 hour of game per day you can make a enormous amount of gold.
A important but very bad detail is you have to buy a room in a good raid to get some recipes. As i hate raiding, this was a very terrible part for me, but my brother have raided with my characters and gettred some sweet recipes.
It's a shame what they made with the trade skills in WotLK. Just transformed a great trade tool in a selfbuff for raiders. Still wow's economy are very fun.
And D2 economy was to noob unfriendly to a game that 50% of your character depends on your trade succes.
I do hope you realize that our post does nothing to refute mine. I wasn't commenting on how easy it is or isn't to get gold in either game. My point was about the worth of gold in one game relative to that in the other.
Also, noob unfriendly isn't a negative to me.
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So you say that trading skill should be most of what it takes to be successful in an RPG game?
Trading is for peasants. I want to earn my own items, not barter for them on a bazaar. Bragging that you outsmarted a 'noob' only makes you a bigger peasant than one would think you are. And assuming that someone actually doesn't have enough brains to handle D2 trading just makes you stupid. Or maybe that person is mentally challenged in which case bragging about outsmarting them puts you on the same position as mentioned above.
God it makes me sick when people imply so arrogantly that the game that requires an IQ of 70+ should be 'noob unfriendly'. If you think that you were something special in a game like that, than you just might be that 'special' actually. Give me a fucking break already and drop that argument from whatever points you actually try to make.
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I really think they should have gold actually be worth something, like have it be much harder to find. Like in WoW.
I hate the fact that runes are basically currency in D2, at least if you actually want to get the items you want. MFing for something you want is totally pointless.
Put an Auction House in for Bnet on D3, and in-game have things like.. resetting skills using gold.. or actually being able to buy good gear with gold from merchants. That would make gold be a bit more like currency IMO. Or so I hope. Just make it a lot harder to get.
Thank god.
And thank you for pointing that out. I hope it's true.
-Hunter S. Thompson
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"Because "half-assed" is not a "style"." - DragoonWraith, champion of character customization and legimitate art direction in D3
Thats not true.
One of the best ways to make gold in wow are just buy/sell stuff in the AH.
Of course you also need 6 character with maximized trade skills, so you must use then to buy cheap materials and sell expensive stuff. Also have 2 accounts is very usefull once you don't need to trade items with your character by using the mailbox.
By using this method you can log in the game and pass like 15 minutes, do your trades, and log again after 1~2 hours to get stuff in the mail and make more trades. With 1 hour of game per day you can make a enormous amount of gold.
A important but very bad detail is you have to buy a room in a good raid to get some recipes. As i hate raiding, this was a very terrible part for me, but my brother have raided with my characters and gettred some sweet recipes.
It's a shame what they made with the trade skills in WotLK. Just transformed a great trade tool in a selfbuff for raiders. Still wow's economy are very fun.
And D2 economy was to noob unfriendly to a game that 50% of your character depends on your trade succes.
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.... that obviously wouldnt be a problem in d3 as there wont be duping. so i still greatly prefer items being the currency... something tangible and useful
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You're missing the point. Half the battle to make gold more valuable is to make it harder to obtain. The other half would be giving us more genuinely useful things to do with it.
The point (for me anyways) would be to establish a solid trading medium. If gold can do the same valuable things for everyone, then it's theoretically worth the same for everyone. I'll also point out that a major reason for dupes was the fact that certain items became the trading medium (Sojs).
Giving us a legit way to accumulate wealth just by playing the game would be AWESOME, and I think it's what Blizzard is aiming for.
So, let's brainstorm some good uses for gold that would definitely make YOU want to have some. Anyone?
-Hunter S. Thompson
TED . LEAP . Woot . MF
Well, as I stated. Being able to reset your character's stats using gold. And have an Auction House.
Being able to get decent gear with gold. Either with gambling or just plain buying. Obviously they should make it expensive, but it's seriously better than killing a boss 100 times a day with a one in a million chance of getting what you want.
Even if duping wasnt in D2 gold would probably not be currency as it has barely any use outside repairs and gambling, and if you want it that much you can run trav with some gold find gear on and be maxed out in a few runs. And theres no way im dicussing wether or not dupes will be in D3 again oh god that was no fun lololol
Maybe gold for an imbue roll. There were so many possibilities.
-Hunter S. Thompson
TED . LEAP . Woot . MF
They should make your items suffer a durability loss as a death penalty and repairs should be incredibly expensive (scaling with gear quality). If you want to die a few times a day, then you better find time to grind gold that day. That way you will be glad and willing to trade an item for a pile of gold to someone. See how simple it can be? Just cut down the incomes and invent unavoidable gold sinks (or seemingly avoidable if you are skilled and persistent).
I do hope you realize that our post does nothing to refute mine. I wasn't commenting on how easy it is or isn't to get gold in either game. My point was about the worth of gold in one game relative to that in the other.
Also, noob unfriendly isn't a negative to me.
"Because "half-assed" is not a "style"." - DragoonWraith, champion of character customization and legimitate art direction in D3
Trading is for peasants. I want to earn my own items, not barter for them on a bazaar. Bragging that you outsmarted a 'noob' only makes you a bigger peasant than one would think you are. And assuming that someone actually doesn't have enough brains to handle D2 trading just makes you stupid. Or maybe that person is mentally challenged in which case bragging about outsmarting them puts you on the same position as mentioned above.
God it makes me sick when people imply so arrogantly that the game that requires an IQ of 70+ should be 'noob unfriendly'. If you think that you were something special in a game like that, than you just might be that 'special' actually. Give me a fucking break already and drop that argument from whatever points you actually try to make.