Rares and Champions...

[Lissa]

You don't seem to get it. So let me spell it out for you in nice big capital letters:

THE-LOOT-SYSTEM-IS-BROKEN. THE-FREQUENCY-THAT-YOU-FIND-ITEMS, REGARDLESS-OF-WHERE-YOU-FARM, IS-INCREDIBLY-LOW. THUS, YOU-ARE-FORCED-TO-USE-THE AUCTION HOUSE.

And because the quality of gear that drops is dependent on difficulty, you HAVE to farm the highest possible difficulty in which you can play to get the possible gear that is available (an exception being Act 4 of hell difficulty, which is required to farm supposedly to stand a chance before taking on Inferno).

There is no nice way to rebut this so I won't try. Your assertion is absolute and complete Bullshit. This is coming from someone who has picked up items here and there from the AH and still 90% of the gear I am using in Hell has been self obtained. Some of the key pieces of gear I am still using is Lvl 26-30 req. Other than a few key pieces (IE your weapon) You can easily play in Hell difficultiy with iLvL 26-45 items. You just need to know what stats to look for on those particular pieces.

Again, I have been incredibly lucky with drops. But if I were to trade many of my ilvl 44-50 items for ilvl 26-35 items with similar qualities of the ilvl 26-35 items I am currently using in Hell I would still be able to progress.

try to rebut it how you will, I couldn't care less regardless, you are still wrong either way. Fact.

No, you cannot "easily" play hell difficulty with lvl 26-45 items. You can play with them, but its not worth the time or effort to do so. To even play the first act comfortably, you need to be doing around 3k dmg minimum with a life pool of at least 20k, otherwise you are in for a rough time. I was forced to buy items on the AH just to be able to get through the first act at a decent pace.


So you have been incredibly luck with drops. Anecdotal evidence. How many Legendaries have you found? I bet not more than 1 or 2. For every person like you, there are hundreds who havent been so fortunate.

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Utterly false. I'm doing 1.6k damage, have 13k life, and not having any real trouble solo outside of the occasional bad power combo from various champs/bosses (like jailer/molten, plague, mortar, etc or fast mobs with stupid combos) at level 52. My gear is also lackluster to say the least (I don't have rares in all slots, infact I'm wearing blue rings, a blue neck, and a blue belt) and non-crazy boss/champ combos I don't have much trouble with (die a few times on crazy combos, sometimes skip them depending) and I haven't bought anything off the AH (off the ingame vendors, yes, off the AH, no).

Dude. You can still farm Nightmare. You don't have to go beat your head against a wall in Hell with inferior gear if you don't want to buy gear off the AH; you can just stay in Nightmare. It's that simple.

You are arguing a problem that doesn't exist.

If I farm nightmare, then I get very little exp, at lvl 57. I want to be able to farm either gold or items AND level at a decent pace at the same time.

Then your choice is simple, either you go back and farm and put off leveling or you accept either buying stuff off the AH or dying more. It's up to you on what you do.