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Quote from Rake84

Why do you care if people use forums to trade???

how does it affect you?? it is something that used to happen a lot in d2 and built a nice community in some cases...

age old suggestion if you dont like it dont use it dont get your "issue"

Reckon OP could easily counter with "Why do you care if people care others use forums to trade?" "How does it affect you?".

Agree the trading will bring more fun to the game and I hope all decent players use forums and trade channels more rather than posting on the auction house. It makes the game much more fun and make the item heaps more rewarding when you trade for weeks and finally find the epic stats from a Amulet than spending 10 secs on filter and click buyout.

Quote from Makesh

Once you get good enough gear it's pretty easy being melee in Inferno. I'd say the transition between A1 to A2 is the worst.

Very true, and even with good enough gear some elites are impossible to fight unless you grind them down. For example, elites with immune minons and Arcane, Frozen, Jail.

Just want to give a real example, My barb have 24000 DPS, 840 AR, 10300 Armor (with war cry and passive skills + enchantress buff etc), as some people might consider over geared for Act 2.

If my friend joins my game when I was engaged in Act 3 with champion / elite which hits hard, I often die within 2-3 secs.

It would be better to solo if you both have monk and if possible sheild up with enchantress as follower. The 15% armor buff persist regardless, even she dies....

Expectations / Obsession often relates to these disappointment.

It is could be hard to believe, but we have to realize that there are significant impact of life for a group of people who value games more than a lot of things even their health.

Some extreme number of these people often find themselves reluctant to stop playing games for more than a week without suffering from the “withdraw”.

I do agree with you mostly. Hell, I have been playing 100hours now, and at less than $1 per hour, I say it worth every cent of my money. Since you bring up this topic, I hope you understand that there are lots of people living on this planet who share a different thought. They might go extreme when it comes to things like games, not to mention this is an AAA title which they had waited for so long.

The state of mind for games is drifting from fun for "me" to play -> must be good for "me" to play. I find it is hard to change that now, a lot of people have grown into an extreme path when it comes to games that they might not even realise.

On the other note, people like myself may worried about Blizzard being less creative.

After WOW, they released SC2, which is almost a clone as SC1 in many, many aspects beside the graphic improvement. Now comes Diablo 3. It is hard to comment much compared to Diablo 2, it does not bring up too much innovation. To be fair, the skill runes are great now we have so many spells to play with, the mob special abilities are good. But beside all these, the game doesn't make any ground breaking aspects which suprises me like what Diablo 2 / BW did over 10 years ago.

I guess we'll have to support Blizzard and wait for them to release another gerne of games in the coming years....

To start with they drew a lot of WOW players into the game by offering free D3 with the "Annual Pass".

A lot of the designs are Inherited from the MMO genre "WOW".

1) Gear check. Hint Inferno Act 1 / Act 2

- Without stats / skill allocation like in D2, now we have to have the proper gear to progress.

*In game example: D2, you could kill Mephisto on Hell, with an undergeared Sorceress, maxed Firewall and maxed Teleport / Warmth with a bit more stats into Mana and rest into Vit.
*In game example: D3, you can never kill a risen dead without spending 10 mins spaming your "Arcane Missle" on your "powerful" lv 60 Wizard holding a 20 dps weapon in inferno Act 1......

2) No offline play

-Well, Blizzard tried hard to convince people they are still playing a single player game....

3) Server down time on Tuesday

-I guess very WOWish

4) Forced cut senses.

- Can escape of course, but it ruins the fun of the battle. For example Act 4 Diablo encounter....

There are more reasons, but those are the ones I could think of for now lol. I wish they could add some patch later after they solve all current issues and bring the game more in line with D2.

More like "Battle Cost" 2.0.

I guess the expansion will add these features in or a major patch. Blizzard's priority right now is to patch the 1.02 patch issue,1.03 patch ,pvp arena, and auction house issues. Once their development team can drink their morning coffee without thinking about these, they may have the time and energy for "expanding" these features.

Quote from Benegesserit

From what I can tell the Legendaries only hold their name to two aspects:

1) Unique Appearance
2) Unique affixes (i.e. a wrist piece with "+ % ATK Speed" & + "% MOV Speed")

What evidence do you have that rares can't roll those affixes? A truly unique affix would be one seen ONLY on legendary gear (like immunity to slows, or chance on hit to create a 10 yd explosion for x% wep dmg).

Sorry I thought it would be pretty obvious, but I guess I'm wrong.

It seems that you may not use auction house a lot(which is a good thing). If you filter "Armor" - > "Wrist" , the sub filters are updated, and there is no "movement speed" for example in there for example compared to If you filter "Armor" - > "Boots".

Thanks for your suggestion about the Legendary unique affixes, and I'm updating it right now.

Interesting, so the number of people contacting customer service is extremely small, and yet my friend has been waiting for 2 and half days now not to mention over 30mins holding on the phone.....

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What I find amusing is that people put up legendaries for 200k+ on nm while you could easily get a better rare at the same levels for around 10k. Hell If you do a search for under 5k and go through some pages you could easily get stuff thats decent at times.

Yep, the AH is too powerful for that matter. We can add in filters such as Max buy out 10000, STR 60 VIT 100 and just keep click on search till something pops up.

And why is that a bad thing?

Quote from BigEd781

Then.... don't do that? The AH isn't forced upon you, play how you want to play. If you use the AH then you obviously don't enjoy grinding for your gear.

Well I guess there is a slight logical problem here, not sure you can see it. Anyways I think you understand the answer to your question.

Quote from KalikooJack

AH is nice but I realized in late nightmare that, "man, why did I upgraded my blacksmith, for over 100k money?". Blacksmith is totally useless. I´m in level 54 with barb and crafting weapons is risky as hell and costs the same as AH prices. Something really needs to be done.

Another issue with AH is, that I can buy way too good items. I just sold 10 pretty crappy items over 150k (hehe...) and upgraded almost every piece of gear that I had. Before I was waiting all the time for epic loot and legendary/set items, now I just feel like, naah. If something cool drops its usually just same crap thats everywhere with wrong stats. I kind a love AH, but it takes something away from my gaming experience. The game is awesome otherwise.

just my thoughts. thanks for reading.

I feel the same, leaving black smithing to lv4 and not planning to revist anytime soon. We probably needs to force ourselves not over use AH. It's easier said than done, I can't resist to log out of the game and check AH every hour or so.

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I agree about legendaries and I think Blizz has acknowledged it and is working on them to be better.

They have also acknowledged that Rares will be the best items in game if rolled well.

I remember reading something from Bashiok saying that the quality "Legendary" is given to items that have a unique name and skin. It doesn't mean that it's the best thing in game.

Don't get me wrong, The top tier Legendaries are weak where they are at, but the idea of Rares contending/surpassing Legendaries isn't new. In D2 there were some situations where a Rare item reined over a Unique, but it was common to see characters running around in Uniques and Runewords.

In the end we are sitting here again expecting a complete re-vamped system that wont happen. It's a new game and a new system... Sometimes we just have to get over the fact that the nostalgic items aren't worth the time/money. They are simply nostalgia nothing more.....

True, time will fix everything. I remember my 1-hander mace in D2 beating everything else, it had war cry affixes and every time I duel I put swap to the mace war cry.

I was never against the the affixes value, but to the % they get rolled all together. There are simply too many "Magic" and "Rare" beating the Legendary elites for example "The Grandfather".

It took me months to find something rare like these back in Diablo 2 and that was part of the fun of the game, and my hard efforts were rewarded. Now I just logon, click on "Auction House" - > "Equipment" -> "Search" -> "DPS". and there are heaps of loads of items easily sitting on top of "The Grandfather" . Hell if I spend a bit time searching, I will find a decent one and it's worth next to nothing.

I found when it is too easy to get things I want, I lose interest to the game fast. I am sure many of us were dreaming to get the first "Windforce" server wide before the game release. With the current situation of the items, I found myself never going to get any of these legendary weapons in the auction house unless they are super afforable, let alone farming months for them in the actual game.

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What I find amusing is that people put up legendaries for 200k+ on nm while you could easily get a better rare at the same levels for around 10k. Hell If you do a search for under 5k and go through some pages you could easily get stuff thats decent at times.

Yep, the AH is too powerful for that matter. We can add in filters such as Max buy out 10000, STR 60 VIT 100 and just keep click on search till something pops up.

And why is that a bad thing?

Well, it hurts the replay value to me, essentially I was paying to play less. Maybe someone enjoys this, but I wanted to play the game more and getting the loots from the elites rather than this. I know the answer to it, just couldn't resist the charm of the auction house lol.

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legendary boots with increased atk speed, i like em. 90k ^^

Does the Boj Anglers work? Last time I tried a pair on my barb, I see no effect on Attack per second what so ever.

90dex Boj gives more dmg than 160dex mf boots so yeah, it works

Thanks for the feedback, weird, I remember my barb was at 1.69 attacks per second duel wielding, with my 88 STR Boj did not do anything to it. I will try later, I might be dreaming....

Quote from Nabla

you should post this on official forums

Thanks for the advise. My personally experience tells me I got more constructive feedbacks here. I found generally people on battle net forums are not in the mood of spending more than 60 seconds to read any post.

Quote from Greenjoke

i like the current system. legendaries can be fantastic with lucky rolls. rares can be fantastic with lucky rolls.

If you read my post, I had not problem against the Affixes value, it is the chance they getting rolled all together. You get like 10 pages of blues 2 handers leaving "The Grandfather" in shame on auction house is not what I want to see everyday. Also not to mention the game only released for a week. There will be heaps of more "Rare" "Magic" items beating up the "Legendaries" in a long run, due to the natural of the drop rate.

Quote from Ayr

My problem is with blues having better dps than legendaries. Sometimes by a huge margin.

Yep, and there are heaps of them, and there will be even more this week.

Quote from Ain

Best items in diablo 2 were generally rares.

Agree.

Quote from Ain

Diablo 3 the uniques just aren't as good. Only reason people notice the difference.

Partly true, It is the common Magic / Rare beating the hell out of the Legendaries. If you search on Auction House 2-hander weapon and check those up, you will understand why I reckon something needs to be done....