Shiny Prizes

[FireIceTalon]

I say it confidently because I've done more than enough farming to make a good judgement. I'm pretty positive the exquisite drops are much rarer in D3 than prior games, though this may be also due to each class being much more item dependent and having a need for specific stat rolls. I played D1 completely legit, and was able to find really nice stuff much faster. At over 170 hrs played on my Wiz alone, and easily several hundred Imprisoned Angel/Butcher runs, I've found maybe 2 items worth keeping - everything else was vendored or sold on the GAH. The same amount of time and Laz runs on D1 were much more productive, and only when my gear was close to perfect did they become less so, understandably. 170 hours of farming on D1 would very likely have netted me multiple Obsidian/Dragon Zod jewels (I've found such items within days of eachother many times, and I once even found 2 Dragon Zods within a half hour). My gear on D3 is decent, but certainly nowhere near perfect and its already more trouble than its worth to find. I'd say I've been more than patient. I'm not even at the point where my char is already uber and I am looking for that perfect gear to faceroll Inferno, just good enough to get me through it at a reasonable rate - but that seems to be too much to ask for. It's at a point where id'ing any rare now is anti-climatic because I know its going to be trash. I never really had this feeling on D1.