Shiny Prizes

[Archon_Wing]

This might be my last good drop ever, since I can surely afford enough gear now to get four other softcore classes past Inferno.

This is everything that is wrong with the AH in a nutshell. When the response to a rare crafting drop is "Great, now I can afford to buy OP gear to get my characters through inferno" and not "Cool, I wonder what I can make with this?" that is .. a bit sad, really.

Why is it sad? You have something you don't want but others need, and thus you trade to get what you need. It's inevitable that most of the usable items are better used by other people. This concept is not new to the series, except now it's streamlined. There's many things wrong with the game, but the AH, aside from the interface is by and far the best designed part of the game. (Maybe that's sad though)

Also, the crafting is so random that you have to be insanely rich for it to be an effective investment.

Without the AH, I'd throw this game in the trash bin already. Then again my shiny prizes weren't very shiny themselves, the only thing shiny was the unusual amounts of gold people paid for them.

So, <3 the AH.