descender wrote on Sep 21, 2012, 15:08:
It irritates me that people can't get their head around the fact that you don't have to touch the auction house (real money or gold) to play diablo 3.
If you DO touch it, that means you are changing the bell curve for your equipment upgrades, and basically removing thejoy of finding any upgrades from the realm of possibility.
It begs the question... did you people ever actually PLAY diablo 2? It was way more like diablo 3 than torchlight 2 in an incredible amount of ways.
I fear the general public is looking for a nostalgic experience that they never actually had.
Well, I have not used the RMAH at all, and only tried (and failed) to sell my junk on the GAH for like 20k a piece. Yet I've completed Inferno, no skipped elites, on my WD, who can comfortably farm Act 3. Still, it was post patch 1.04, and my gear looks like the gear of somebody who has nothing from the AHs, it's horrible.
Accomplishing the same(or comparable) feat in D2 was far, far more enjoyable and I actually saw Uniques/Legendaries in that game without 400+ hours of farming at max MF. I have found 1 Legendary, level 51 shield, since 1.04.
For the record, I didn't D2JSP or even trade for any gear(aside from just sharing drops with my 3-4 coop partners) in D2 either, but I'm guessing I'm a bit of anomaly.
Let's not even get into the offline/modding that were done with D2 that truly made the game enjoyable to me. That's where D3 is really screwed in my opinion. Blizzard might eventually tweak drops enough to make the game fun for the majority of players, but it's already over to me, for the most part. I beat Inferno on my WD, my Barb and Monk currently lack the gear to progress, and I probably won't have it without a few more hundred hours of farming, since I avoid the AHs.
That's where most people feel D3 has failed, whether or not the drop QUALITY is truly because of the AH or whatever(not drop rates, drop quality), it certainly SEEMS as though the AH has led D3 to have boring and extremely, extremely rare loot, for the actual good/great drops you need in the game.
All of that said, hopefully patch 1.05 is better, but their patch notes indicate they don't even grasp the basic problems most people have with the game.
ps. I died for the first time on my Berserker in TL2 this morning. Hard Difficulty, level 15.
Killed by some sort of swarming DoT wolves and spider combo with some charging Yetis or whatever, they were disarmingly cute.