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Quote from KageKaze

This is something I probably could have put on my list of flaws for PoE, but I was on the fence about it. The skill drop system seems very cool in PoE untill you realize you have to get lucky to make a build you might be trying for. As an example, if you wanted to use GMP (Greater Multiple Projectiles) on a skill, you have to hope that a GMP skill drops. You can never ever get GMP from levels or quests. It is kind of exciting in some ways but I fully agree that casual players will probably hate that they may never get all the skills their class can use.

It's even more crazy when you add in Quality. My Arc Witch is doing fairly well, but I got lucky and found "Arc" with a high quality so it adds an additional chance to add status effects. If I wouldn't have found that I don't know if the build would be doing nearly as well. But there's good in that where builds in PoE can be greatly affected by items, which is something that Diablo 3 does lack. Once they get some legendaries with more risky and dynamic affixes on them, we might see some interesting D3 builds come out using them.

Quote from Chiron

I voted to keep them but change them. Basically I can see two options on how to "fix" the AH:

1) Make it so that the items traded in the AH are not BiS items but instead you would need to acquire the best items by playing. Some suggestions regarding this approach:

Increase the number of BoA (or BoE) stuff and make them more powerful than "tradable" stuff and make AH flipping more difficult by forcing the player to wear the bought items for X hours before he'll be able to sell them again (or better yet, force the player to gather X amount of exp while wearing the item before being able to sell them).

Or maybe items sold through the AH would get a "curse" which would drop their stats by 20% or something and you could "dispel" this curse by gaining exp while wearing the item. Maybe even all items could get more powerful as you gain exp while wearing them and this "buff" would be removed if the item is traded.

Also one option would be to add in the Mystic and making it so that all Mystic-enchanted items become un-tradable so basically you would only trade "base items" and then you'd have to enchant them to make them more powerful.

2) Decrease the convenience of the AH. One suggestion on how to do this occurred to me while I was playing PoE and here is my suggestion that I wrote on the PoE forums (slightly adjusted):

The semi-automatic "Auction House";
- A seller puts an item up and writes what he would want for it (gold/items/etc.) and the item would be "reserved" (or transferred) to the "Auction House" so the seller can't use it while it is posted
- A buyer can then send an offer to the seller and the game automatically "reserves" the offered items/gold from the buyers stash so they can't be used while the trade is still "open"
- The seller goes through all the offers he has got and if he accepts one, the trade is done automatically and all the other items offered by other players are freed. This would remove the hassle of having to agree on a certain time to be online with somebody.
- The seller and the buyers could "free" their items at any time if they later decide they didn't want to trade and the trade is still "open".

Thoughts?

PS. For me the worst thing in the "classic" trading system found in D2 and PoE is that trading takes so much time. I realize that it forces the player to really think what he should try to sell and what to scrap but still it just takes away too much of your time which really should be spent playing the game instead of browsing the forums.

Quote from FoxBatD2

There won't be a legit economy for more than a few weeks, so I wouldn't get too excited about direct player trade.

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Quote from maka

I still maintain that opinion. By making the best gear only drop in Inferno, esp. Acts 3 and 4, they caused us to get 'stuck' in Act 1 for ages. You couldn't even go back to farming Hell because the gear that dropped there was useless in gearing towards Inferno (if you could already run Act 1).
The only way past this was to exploit your way through, death-zerg the content, or buy all your gear on the AH. Btw, said gear was posted there by people who exploited or death-zerged the content.

I started playing HC~no AH~self found only.... and I've never had so much fun playing Diablo. It actually feels like a dungeon-crawler adventure for once.

The important point is that D3 offers players a choice. They can play the game in many ways, with restrictions or without.

I do agree that the last 2 acts of Hell should include more Inferno-viable gear.