04-20-2006, 02:50 PM
Warlock,Apr 19 2006, 01:55 PM Wrote:Purchasable items are roughly as powerful as those which you'll get from the late game small group instances. If anything the best AH items are better; there are several craftable epics and a few raid Bind on Equips that can be often found on the AH. What you won't get is the range and variety; even with the best purchasable gear there are still a lot of desirable dropped or quested items.
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They are actually not. You *can* get a few that are compatible, but things like weapons are not as good. A few purples that *are* on par with the lower instance late-game items are over 1k, which makes purchasing them impractical. Even if they were however, that still leaves the better ones out of reach, no matter how much gold you are willing to spend.
It is understandable that those that play 1/2 the time that others do, should have worse items. What is not, is that instead of having roughly 1/2 of the good items as those that play twice as much, they have (and will have) none. You can't raid - you have a 0% chance of getting the higher end items. I see something wrong with that.
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