Yeah scrapping the AH is first prize, now they just need to allow us to play offline and or LAN (when we so choose) and we will actually have the game we wanted all along.
Blizzard shutting down Real money Auction house
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Yeah scrapping the AH is first prize, now they just need to allow us to play offline and or LAN (when we so choose) and we will actually have the game we wanted all along.
Ichigo
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I also hate farming same spot 50 times so ended up quitting Diablo 3 since I wasn't seeing results.
Is the console version drop rate bad?
And so they decided to add the random dungeons (the maproom from Torchlight) into Diablo with the expansion. They could also have done a lot better when it comes to randomizing the world in general IMO.
GlacieredPyro
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It's good. Too good. I got to inferno with one death and gear that is hot on the heals of my main on the PC version.
I am almost full in legendaries and my stash has 40+ legendaries. Keeping in mind doubles of any legendary were given to a friend or vendored.
Spot on. And we knew this before they even said it.
Again artificially enhancing a drop based on the current player has massive drawbacks though.
I never had a problem with getting an int two handed axe. I like wielding those as an int user as it looks badass.
My problem comes from farming for weeks without getting an upgrade. The latter attributed to your quote.
I really just am yearning for those Mephisto runs to build my sets
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Weasley
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they remove good drops from bosses nothing to do with any of the AH. they want to get people to go kill monsters not bosses.
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With removing of the AH now you will have to do that. Drops rate is going to be reduced. I just hope loot 2.0 check that items that drops are actually better or it will be a bigger fail than the AH.
Clive Woofer
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Err, no, the point of Loot 2.0 is to increase drop rates and to drop items that are viable for your character specifically. They're not reducing drop rates. I have no idea where you got that idea from.
GlacieredPyro
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I have no idea where you got that idea from.
Technically it's a drop rate reduction. And it's from an official video.
I don't have the numbers on hand but in short where you would normally get ~1000 drops from a full act III run of which a large portion would be white and only 1 legendary. With loot 2.0 that same run would only net ~800 drops with very few whites and 8 legendaries.
Check the video announcement of loot 2.0 for a more detailed number breakdown.
Edit here you go at 3:11: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=rYbt27bRMqs#t=190
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Weasley
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Mosqueria explains that loot drops in loot 2.0 will be less frequent,
Read more at http://www.escapistmagazine.com/new...own-Less-Better-More-Epic#SmTCCrTWuQWayMEP.99
for more info.
Read more at http://www.escapistmagazine.com/new...own-Less-Better-More-Epic#SmTCCrTWuQWayMEP.99
for more info.
Clive Woofer
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Ah, I must have misunderstood then. They increase the drop rate of legendaries, but decrease the drop rate of items overall. Either way, 8 legendaries for act 3 isn't half bad. I don't see how improved legendary drop rates is going to force me to farm more. In my first playthrough on Normal difficulty, I got one legendary for the entire playthrough.
Ichigo
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Well it isn't the drop rate that is the problem it is the quality of the drops which sucks, if you knew you were getting something cool and strong you will farm more, but sadly thats not the case so wish it was like Diablo 2.
Got alts and a bank full of legendaries but rarely have a good one and most can't even be sold for 10k gold let alone 1 million+.
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GlacieredPyro
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I just read an interesting opinion talking about how there was no gold sink like in the hardcore economy where player deaths remove big chunks of items form the game.
In the real world an item will be in the economy for a finite amount of time due to "wear" and at some point must be scrapped.
If items had a "resale potential" then you could limit it's lifetime in the ecenomy by forcing the player at the end of the "resale potential" to vendor or dissasemble the item. I wonder if such a system was concidered to keep inflation and over saturation down.
In the real world an item will be in the economy for a finite amount of time due to "wear" and at some point must be scrapped.
If items had a "resale potential" then you could limit it's lifetime in the ecenomy by forcing the player at the end of the "resale potential" to vendor or dissasemble the item. I wonder if such a system was concidered to keep inflation and over saturation down.
BtA, BoE or BoP would also have solved that problem. That would force the players to vendor it once he's used it, or to sell it before he uses it thereby significantly reducing the number of items on the AH.
Clive Woofer
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I was thinking the same thing, but there would likely have been a lot of complaints had Blizzard decided to soulbind items to player characters.
Yeah, but if they had done so from the start people would probably have accepted it because it's a common thing in all MMOs that I've played.
The thing is they had to do something to the AH. It was just unworkable. But I'm glad that they decided to kill it completely in the end (yes some people will complain), it can only be good for the game in the long run.
