1.0.3 Coming Changes

[Roland]

I'm not trying to be some super negative "nothing will work!" person, but I think making crafting far more enticing would help as a goldsink more than just adding gambling would.

This.

Personally, I think fixing the drops in Inferno would go a long way to accomplishing that (as well as dropping Blacksmith costs SLIGHTLY at the higher levels), such that:

Act I Inferno = 59 - 60
Act II = 60 - 61
Act III = 60 - 62
Act IV = 60 - 63

I don't want level 63 items dropping in Act I Inferno. I want to have to work my way through each Act in order to progress. That way I have to *gasp* progress through the game, in order to progress my character! What a concept! I'd love to use the Blacksmith more (aside from the fact that I don't have a plan for a Bow, and to buy one off the AH costs ~180k right now - not to mention the Bows themselves will probably cost 100k to craft if they're anything like Sources). It's just far more economical to farm the gold and buy off the AH than it is to craft, though. Farming Act I will net you a fair amount of gold, but level 60 drops are few and far between making crafting materials scarce. Combine that with high gold costs on the "gamble" of getting something worthwhile and it literally discourages anything but using the AH.