Originally Posted by
rogoth
lemme just highlight that for you, because i don't know if you're just ignorant to that fact, or are dismissing it because you don't like it, but that was the entire point of the game loot system, it was tiered based on which act you were in, meaning that if you wanted the highest quality gear (baseline) you needed to be doing act 3/4 content, meaning the old keep depths 3 farms etc, it wasn't until if i remember right the 1.6 patch that blizz normalised all loot drops and untied base item level of gear from which act it could drop in, which is when the A1 farms became popular.
the whole thing of the loot system was any item could drop for any class and could roll with (minus a few exceptions on certain legendaries and set items) any stat combinations that existed on the loot in the game, it was because of that extremely wide and variable system that meant if you played a 'solo self found' type of game, your chances of getting anything that you actually wanted were astronomically low, and to get it to roll with stats that were of benefit to you was another layer of RNG that was astronomically low, meaning that if you wanted the best items in the game, with the perfect stats for your build, you either needed to get a back to back lottery win, or rely on the MILLIONS of other players who played the game to list that item they found on the AH and you have the gold to buy it.
but here's the thing, even on inferno MP10 difficulty you could easily build a set of gear that cost 5-10 million gold to farm that difficulty, the more you spent on higher quality pieces and items that had greater synergy together increased your efficiency sure, but that's it, you didn't NEED the tippy top best gear in the game in every slot for every character, i used to build CM wizard sets for MP10 difficulty and gave them away to people, i made basic sets that were 1-2 million gold in cost with items you could actually easily find multiples of from a single farm run, to sets worth 1-2 billion gold (these were rare though due to how long it took me to get that kind of gold back to back while also improving my own characters), which could farm any MP10 inferno content as well as clear Uber bosses in no time flat, so this notion that the AH ruined D3 is false, what ruined it was the RMAH and people bitching because they couldn't get a slice of the pie, because as mentioned, how ridiculously bad the loot quality was on average, getting an item worth selling, then getting an item worth selling for real money was levels above what most casual players were ever gonna see, and as such they cried the loudest to get the thing removed and so, it was removed, while i don't care about the RMAH being gone, the outright removal of the gold AH was stupid, if they were that concerned about loot trading they could have just made it impossible to list legendary/set items on the AH, like they had done with some items in the game, because now i'm swimming in trillions upon trillions of gold, with almost full BiS for a few of my characters and the only thing i want to do is reforge legendary/set items in the cube to get primal items in the few slots i'm still missing to be 'perfect', but i can't do that because i lack enough resources to be able to facilitate that, and you can bet your ass i ain't wasting my time farming days on end just to be able to reforge a handful of times at the cube, when if the AH still existed i could buy the crafting materials i need with the trillions of gold i have that has literally no use for anything and could play how i want to play.
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or i can just pay so no life rift farming russian kids to boost me through speed rifts and get any and all loot i want for no effort whatsoever, totally 'earned' amiright?