tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20397621.post8623993782692929448..comments2023-09-21T05:26:30.376-04:00Comments on Ziggyny's Game Emporium: Improperly Tuned ContentZiggynyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07518980519046202646noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20397621.post-63451588135525066552012-06-05T18:13:43.502-04:002012-06-05T18:13:43.502-04:00I guess there is money to be made just camping the...I guess there is money to be made just camping the AH but you don't need to spend that much time to get reasonable money for your gear. Just check for gear with similar stats and put yours up for a bit lower than what is out there. <br /><br />As far as making money by trading vs. playing D3 is exactly the same as D2. I always made enormously more profit by fleecing the rubes than by killing the monsters. The real problem here is that we have no XP bar beyond level 60. Once I ding 60 I cannot progress my witch doctor any more at all except by getting more cash so I play my DH instead to farm faster. The best answer for 'how do I progress my character?' should not be 'play another character that farms money faster.'<br /><br />I completely agree about the guild thing. The fact that we don't have a simple guild interface with green text where we can link items and randomly chat is a disgrace.Skyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10723733406348223879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20397621.post-33046519619946205922012-06-05T14:36:55.832-04:002012-06-05T14:36:55.832-04:00I think the idea that you can get better gear by n...I think the idea that you can get better gear by not playing than by playing is what is really irksome. In reality it was true in D2 as well (Honest Bung seemed to have a lot of quality goods, after all), but I think it was a lot less in-your-face, and maybe we never hit a wall where we thought: "I can only go further by getting hugely better gear."<br /><br />Of course I got Mass Confusion on my Witch Doctor and started having a huge amount of fun with that. And I switched to an Archon build to farm Hell act 3 on my wizard and managed to stay in Archon so long that my buffs ran out, which was also great fun.<br /><br />I think it's just that the end-game isn't for me. It never really was in D2 either. The trouble with D3 is that it is hard to imagine making a third wizard, let alone a fourth, fifth, etc. (I'm sure I leveled up 20 sorceresses in D2). It's an awkward convergence of problems.Sthennohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05429676469805661834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20397621.post-91341649917439266942012-06-04T19:40:03.730-04:002012-06-04T19:40:03.730-04:00I still think guild equivalents are the answer. M...I still think guild equivalents are the answer. Maybe what you enjoy is farming high level, and someone else likes economies, so instead of you selling what you find, you feed items to the economics player and they feed back higher items by playing with money. <br /><br />The lack of a proper guild system disappoints me, but I think there are ways around that as well, I don't know if it's as silly as having a google spreadsheet of high end items for trading around or something, but there's something there.<br /><br />SnugglesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20397621.post-91353502578422101902012-06-04T16:18:37.141-04:002012-06-04T16:18:37.141-04:00Yeah, that's exactly the sort of thing I mean ...Yeah, that's exactly the sort of thing I mean by playing the economic game. Someone who is bad at the economic game got 25.5k for the ring they found. Someone who is good at it got 97.5k for trolling the AH. I guarantee I'm in the camp of people only getting 25.5k and not the camp making 97.5k appear out of thin air.<br /><br />I'm not saying there isn't skill in manipulating the AH. Obviously there is. I even used to do similar things in WoW. But even then having lots of money mostly let me do silly things like get Insane in the Membrane. It didn't make me stronger in the only real way to get stronger.<br /><br />Maybe I should put in the time to learn the economy and start grabbing my margins where I can. It would be a better use of my time than trying to farm gear, which makes me very sad. Frankly I'd rather play Mystic Quest than play the markets and I think that says some pretty terrible things about D3.Ziggynyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07518980519046202646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20397621.post-25664664292418424282012-06-04T12:56:49.013-04:002012-06-04T12:56:49.013-04:00I think the problem is exactly as big as Ziggyny i...I think the problem is exactly as big as Ziggyny is making it out to be. There is exactly one way to progress your character - get more gold.<br /><br />If no one had bootstrapped at all then it wouldn't be nearly as bad but they did and it is that bad.<br /><br />What's worse, at one point I went to look at rings for auction and I saw one that was awesome for 30k. I went to buy it but it was already gone. When I searched again it was back, but listed for 150k. I bought it anyway.<br /><br />The person who did that got lucky to sell it so quickly, but the fact is that they are progressing their character *much* faster than I am progressing mine and they aren't even playing the game.<br /><br />In their quest for game balance Blizzard decided we should stop earning experience, that we couldn't have fun quest rewards like adding a socket to an item, and in all other ways restricted progress in the game down to finding items that have a little more int and vit. They still got it wrong and allowed broken things to get through. They still got it wrong and made some abilities very overpowered and others unusable.<br /><br />I've probably played diablo 3 for about 150 hours and I played the beta for easily that much as well, so it would be very silly for me to say that I don't think the game is fun to play. But it is a disappointment and the tuning that Ziggyny describes here is a huge part of that problem.Sthennohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05429676469805661834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20397621.post-9449403465988060702012-06-03T14:40:34.333-04:002012-06-03T14:40:34.333-04:00I took a look and there isn't a single item on...I took a look and there isn't a single item on the AH from hell with 150 int, 150 vit, and 50 resist all. <br /><br />You can find a 500 DPS 1-hander for sure. Unfortunately I couldn't kill butcher with a 626 DPS 1-hander. Maybe a witch doctor could do it, but nothing I tried could possibly kill him fast enough with a 500 DPS weapon.Ziggynyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07518980519046202646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20397621.post-81417256453430966712012-06-03T10:56:45.835-04:002012-06-03T10:56:45.835-04:00I don't think the gear problem is as big as yo...I don't think the gear problem is as big as you make it out to be. It is true that weapon dps is very limited by what act you are in but I am quite certain that I could beat a1, a2, and a3 with gear from the previous act and have it be a cakewalk. Imagine if my weapon for a1 were a 500 dps 1 hander and my gear looked like this:<br /><br />150 vit<br />150 int<br />50 res all<br />200 armor<br />100 life / sec<br />*Move speed / attack speed / etc.<br /><br />I would *explode* a1 with that gear and that gear is available in hell difficulty. Granted the farm time to get items like that is approximately a billion years but you don't need items anywhere near that good to win. I am progressing nicely in a3 using 2 blue rings with level reqs of 53 I think, gloves I crafted, an amulet and an offhand I found in a1 off a trash mob. I bought the rest of my gear on the AH but aside from the weapon, which I could have easily found in a2, (I found an equally good monk weapon and sold it to buy my weapon) none of it is outside the bounds of a1 drops.<br /><br />It helps *hugely* to buy a weapon from a later act. However, that is the shortcut and you can certainly win without it, it just takes more farming. It is easily possible to get fantastic items that would sell on the AH for 10+ million in a1 just by getting good itemization on them. Diablo 3 is a game where you can slowly grind out your own gear ignoring the other players entirely (very slowly, using crafting) or you can find gear and trade with them via the AH and gear up quickly. You don't need them to feed you stuff from later acts though.<br /><br />As a note, I am happy to supply gear to people that I find and won't use myself. I have been doing that pretty constantly actually but the problem is that if I find a fantastic piece of gear with Int on it I probably want to wear that gear so you are far less likely to get it than someone using Dex or Str. You are right though that if I want to get better gear by using the AH I can't give away everything I find to my friends because then I have no source of cash myself.Skyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10723733406348223879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20397621.post-66623672650408368502012-06-03T03:02:44.769-04:002012-06-03T03:02:44.769-04:00Hah! I wonder how long until they remove any gobli...Hah! I wonder how long until they remove any goblin spawns near a waypoint. 8PZiggynyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07518980519046202646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20397621.post-70613231831714124262012-06-03T01:49:41.325-04:002012-06-03T01:49:41.325-04:00One way I saw some people 'grouping' is fo...One way I saw some people 'grouping' is four people spam games near a waypoint where a treasure goblin is known to occasionally spawn. As soon as someone finds one they all join his game and kill it then split up again to find the next one.Tomnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20397621.post-74702157407492983412012-06-02T22:37:01.740-04:002012-06-02T22:37:01.740-04:00Yeah, I wish that were really feasible. One of my ...Yeah, I wish that were really feasible. One of my lamentations is with the communication system which is really terrible. If we could form a guild or even a chat channel where people could ask for help or to create new groups or whatever that would be pretty great. Or if I could mail an item to someone. But as it is, if I find something someone might want I'd have to link it to each individual person who could conceivably want it. If they're online. And if the message gets through. (Robb and I chat on Skype while playing and he tells me about in game chat messages he sends that I never get.) <br /><br />I could bug Sky for better gear that he sees, but the problem is most of the stuff he finds that I would want is worth a fortune. Remember, he isn't finding gear he wants either. He's selling what he finds in order to buy what he needs. So he'd be setting himself back by helping me out. Not that he wouldn't still do that, but it does come with a real cost. <br /><br />Grouping up is no better, since the monsters get more than double their health with 2 people in the game on inferno. They do more damage, too, so his gear that can barely survive a hit suddenly becomes trash if I'm around. <br /><br />The game would certainly be more fun with a guild atmosphere. But I don't think the inferno setup would be.Ziggynyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07518980519046202646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20397621.post-62333770299624529772012-06-02T21:57:54.522-04:002012-06-02T21:57:54.522-04:00I think you're missing the bootstrapping effec...I think you're missing the bootstrapping effect of guilds (or rather, friend groups that are effectively guilds). Just as the magical Bung-fairy brought you a tarnhelm in D2, I think it's reasonable for people in A2 to bootstrap those in A1 (and down the line).<br /><br />I enjoy that part of the game, finding a friend at a lower level and looking through my stash for something that might help. <br /><br />SnugglesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com