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I thought that Blizz said they were doing away with MF, and that drops would be such that you wouldn't just go boss hunting and skipping the rest of the content. I'm in the F&F Beta, and there's MF all over the place sadly, so once again I'm trading off (the admittedly unnecessary) good stats for MF. Also, bosses still seem to drop a lot more and a lot better loot than even yellow "mini-boss" creatures, so I'm not sure how that will push people not to just run the last bit of each section. The only reason I can find to run other sections is for crafting papers, and even then, at least in this first part, they are far more common at the end near the boss.
So... when did they change their mind on the direction or am I missing something?
You're missing something. This isn't inferno. In Inferno difficulty all mobs will be balanced out for drops, prior to that it's going to slowly ramp up with later mobs giving you better loot. So for the Beta, absolutely, once you've got yourself up to max level, there's no reason to farm the early parts. Just like when you're level 60, but not quite geared for Inferno you'll go to Act IV Hell to get more items, not Act I Normal.
No I think your missing something, what hes trying to say is that the bosses drop better gear. Unless you can confirm that bosses in inferno drop no more gear than regular inferno mobs, than there is no reason why people won't stack mf and rush to inferno bosses.
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...or maybe just play on one character and buy ourself a bunch of pizza and sodapop and have some actual fun!
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It will definitely be possible to make good money play Diablo 3, but not by grinding or farming. You have to know what your comparative advantage is, which will be playing the markets and arbitrage.
Really? Arbitrage? In a video game?
Part of me is disgusted with this idea, but part of me really hopes that perhaps we'll teach a bunch of 15 year old boys how the world economy works and about supply and demand and market research, arbitrage, risk/reward, etc. without even having to try. The best lessons are those we learn when we don't know someone's trying to teach us something.
I also just noticed that the link to the Wiki shows screenshots of the various AH interfaces. It appears you can sell gold on the RMAH, but it also appears you can sell gold on the GAH, which makes no sense at all. Anyone have any thoughts on that from the screenshots?
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Uhm, actually by default the cash goes to your bnet account e-balance, and if you choose to set it up, a third party provides the transfer between Blizzard and your bank account or whatever. Whether that's PayPal or someone else hasn't been announced yet. But you're 100% wrong, your e-balance CAN be cashed out. It can also be used to buy blizzard games online.
I figure that the $40 I paid for D3 preorder will more than likely be covered whenever I decide to sell my characters, gold and items. I mean, it feels weird talking about this since it's legal. In WoW, I sold my accounts after I was done with each of them, mostly just to cover the cost of playing the game. Feels a lot better quitting when you're up like $30-$40 net after a year or two of playing.
My understanding was that you had to choose between e-balance or cash-out and that any account that opted for cash-out never maintained a balance after that opting.
The e-balance could be used on blizzard products and AH items, but could not be turned into cash as far as I am aware.
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Time is money my friend. Spending 200 hours to make back the $60 you paid isn't exactly "efficient". Is the game free at this point? Sort of.. you earn the money back but spend your time. I feel like only the tip top tier of players will really make the game profitable (earning a livable wage from D3). This requires great knowledge of mfing/farming AND trading/D3 markets.. Not realistic for the vast majority of players. In any event, the rmah is one of the most exciting features for diablo 3 and I can't freaking wait!!! Words can't express my excitement for this game.
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I've always been the kind of guy who picks up every grey item, which I know is actually less profitable then charging headfast towards the next boss for a much more rare item, but... I just have a hard time leaving even a little coin on the floor :-)
Knowing myself, my goal is to try and sell in-game gold on the RMAH, and use that as my main way to earn back my $60 :-) Even if its a silly goal, I think making the game pay for itself/getting to play for free is what a lot of people will be aiming to do.
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As a medical non-professional, I believe it would be healthy for everyone to take a deep breath, stand up for a few minutes, stretch, and then spend the next 168 hours hunched over your computers hitting the refresh key as often as humanly possible and as fast as your computer can reload the page!
Good luck everybody!
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Hey Fallen Shaman, what's the value of life? "it's abou..." (Stab Fallen Shaman in the face)
I honestly have no idea what that one could possibly mean. It's obviously somehow mistranslated, but usually things are close enough to guess, here? No clue at all.
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I wasn't even aware this was an issue. Yeah, some of that stuff can make me a little queesy. I can go zero G or do a nose up stall without the slightest problem, but shake the screen, or give me the feeling of falling or false depth perception and it really bugs me.
Are there a lot of skills that do that? Make the screen shake and stuff?
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I don't at all forget how this worked in D2. What I'm saying is, there is no command to fast swap between skills now, so if you have attack as one of your skills out of six, that means one fewer skill you can have active at that point.
Maybe I'm not making my concern clear, but I'm not sure exactly how else to explain it. To use a skill it has to be one of your 2-6 active skills right? If one of your 2-6 active skills is attack, that means you're down to 1-5 other skills, and that's pretty significant, even at the highest level that would be crippling. Maybe for Barbs it does what it did in D2, if you have no mana/fury your attack skill reverts to basic attack, but I'm not sure how that would work for other classes that don't have a good melee option.
Maybe it will work like D&D 4th Edition where you have "at-will" abilities that if you don't have anything else you can do it automatically does that, like the standard Magic Missile type spell for Wizard, shooting for the DH, whacking things for the Barb, etc.