Ok, so I lied when I said I wouldn't play the game again. I got bored with WoW (or rather, the pandaland expansion drove me away with its artificially enforced gating and punishing hostility against alts), and decided maybe I should try D3 one more time rather than spend more time in team fortress 2, which is a game that ultimately just makes me irrationally mad and is probably going to cause me to have either an aneurysm or a heart attack one day.
...Anyway, lol. I make a new demon hunter, because...well, they're fun to play, and I love that type of character. ...And I notice things seem to be going more smoothly now. Drops seem better, or enemies die more easily, I beat normal difficulty without ever having to visit the auction house for new gear. Diablo almost killed me, but only almost. My sentries took care of the bitch while I survived with a smidgen of health left. I didn't die one single time, which was a first. Maybe its the practice, but I think they really did make the game easier. I got four legendaries to drop while leveling one character up into my mid-40s, that never happened while leveling three previous chars that high. Anecdotal, I know, but I really do think something has changed...
Nightmare went pretty smoothly as well. I did drop by the AH to pick up a couple pieces of gear, weapons mostly, but most items were ludicrously overpriced. Many bits of rare-quality gear could only be bought for MILLIONS of golds. MILLIONS! Not sure why people even bother putting up a rare level 40-something pair of gloves for 3M gold, does people actually buyout things at those prices? I doubt it, even though D3 gold is essentially worthless and even if I had an infinite supply of it (which I don't at the moment!) I wouldn't encourage such practices on general principle.
When I reached the second-to-last checkpoint before Diablo, I decided to pause for the evening. Well, night really, it was like 1:30AM. Was just gonna check the AH one last time to put up some old gear I don't use anymore (listing for 1000 golds apiece, just to ensure they sell so I get rid of them), and then I decide to switch to the real-money auction house see what legendaries were available at my current level (51 at the time), and how much they cost. Well as it turned out, some pretty honkin' ridiculous legendaries, that's what. Lol.
I had two rare hand xbows that were fairly decent, at 140 and 144dps respectively with square gems socketed in them. I managed, they were a bit weak for the area but still sufficed. The legendaries had over 1000dps each.
Now, I'd seen rares with 800+ dps too listed on the gold AH. Again, costing millions of gold apiece. Not sure if that kind of damage on a rare is bugged or not I stayed well away from those weapons, but these legendaries were just too tempting. I am embarrassed to say that I paid actual money for two imaginary crossbows. Just as an experiment, mind you! I've paid for quite a few things in TF2 as well as pets for WoW, so I guess my barrier had been worn down to a nub. (For the curious, I spent €5 and €5.50 respectively I believe; not that much, and the euro is weak to the krona right now. Or that's how I rationalize the purchase to myself anyway...)
Anyhow, those crossbows are totally completely ridiculous. I plowed my way up to Diablo, then was almost killed by Diablo because my health wasn't that awesome (wore a ruby in my head for extra experience instead of amethyst for extra health), and my sentries again chewed her up while I vaulted away towards a health fount. Then I massacred myself through act 1 of hell difficulty to the skeleton king and plowed through him. My damage listed on the character screen was well over 18000 by that time, wearing rather unspectacular gear apart from the weapons. Not sure what it would have been had I purchased a full set of legendary stuff. Completely off-the-scale ridiculous, I suspect.
...But it was fun. Figuring these bows will last me all the way through hell, even though they don't have sockets. Might get killed though, monsters do a lot of damage now and gear drops are still pretty much shit. Could replace the gem in my helm with stamina of course, that would help. The templar is very useful with his heals when mobbed by elites with unfortunate random properties, waller+artillery in particular is annoying because I can't shoot them while they can shoot me. Oh well. Right now monsters aren't a REAL threat, not with the damage I put out, but shall have to see what happensin later acts.
Gonna hit 60 this time. For sure!
PS: Finally went to bed at 4:30 in the morning... UUuuuuurrrrggghhhh........
...Anyway, lol. I make a new demon hunter, because...well, they're fun to play, and I love that type of character. ...And I notice things seem to be going more smoothly now. Drops seem better, or enemies die more easily, I beat normal difficulty without ever having to visit the auction house for new gear. Diablo almost killed me, but only almost. My sentries took care of the bitch while I survived with a smidgen of health left. I didn't die one single time, which was a first. Maybe its the practice, but I think they really did make the game easier. I got four legendaries to drop while leveling one character up into my mid-40s, that never happened while leveling three previous chars that high. Anecdotal, I know, but I really do think something has changed...
Nightmare went pretty smoothly as well. I did drop by the AH to pick up a couple pieces of gear, weapons mostly, but most items were ludicrously overpriced. Many bits of rare-quality gear could only be bought for MILLIONS of golds. MILLIONS! Not sure why people even bother putting up a rare level 40-something pair of gloves for 3M gold, does people actually buyout things at those prices? I doubt it, even though D3 gold is essentially worthless and even if I had an infinite supply of it (which I don't at the moment!) I wouldn't encourage such practices on general principle.
When I reached the second-to-last checkpoint before Diablo, I decided to pause for the evening. Well, night really, it was like 1:30AM. Was just gonna check the AH one last time to put up some old gear I don't use anymore (listing for 1000 golds apiece, just to ensure they sell so I get rid of them), and then I decide to switch to the real-money auction house see what legendaries were available at my current level (51 at the time), and how much they cost. Well as it turned out, some pretty honkin' ridiculous legendaries, that's what. Lol.
I had two rare hand xbows that were fairly decent, at 140 and 144dps respectively with square gems socketed in them. I managed, they were a bit weak for the area but still sufficed. The legendaries had over 1000dps each.
Now, I'd seen rares with 800+ dps too listed on the gold AH. Again, costing millions of gold apiece. Not sure if that kind of damage on a rare is bugged or not I stayed well away from those weapons, but these legendaries were just too tempting. I am embarrassed to say that I paid actual money for two imaginary crossbows. Just as an experiment, mind you! I've paid for quite a few things in TF2 as well as pets for WoW, so I guess my barrier had been worn down to a nub. (For the curious, I spent €5 and €5.50 respectively I believe; not that much, and the euro is weak to the krona right now. Or that's how I rationalize the purchase to myself anyway...)
Anyhow, those crossbows are totally completely ridiculous. I plowed my way up to Diablo, then was almost killed by Diablo because my health wasn't that awesome (wore a ruby in my head for extra experience instead of amethyst for extra health), and my sentries again chewed her up while I vaulted away towards a health fount. Then I massacred myself through act 1 of hell difficulty to the skeleton king and plowed through him. My damage listed on the character screen was well over 18000 by that time, wearing rather unspectacular gear apart from the weapons. Not sure what it would have been had I purchased a full set of legendary stuff. Completely off-the-scale ridiculous, I suspect.
...But it was fun. Figuring these bows will last me all the way through hell, even though they don't have sockets. Might get killed though, monsters do a lot of damage now and gear drops are still pretty much shit. Could replace the gem in my helm with stamina of course, that would help. The templar is very useful with his heals when mobbed by elites with unfortunate random properties, waller+artillery in particular is annoying because I can't shoot them while they can shoot me. Oh well. Right now monsters aren't a REAL threat, not with the damage I put out, but shall have to see what happensin later acts.
Gonna hit 60 this time. For sure!
PS: Finally went to bed at 4:30 in the morning... UUuuuuurrrrggghhhh........
Yeah, turret is actually useful, but it would be better if You could spawn it on mouse cursor, right? :>
