05-25-2012, 09:09 PM
(05-25-2012, 08:49 PM)Concillian Wrote: ???
AH is a necessity because the loot is not good? Did you ever play Diablo II solo? Diablo II solo loot was as bad, if not worse... that's why people played in 8 player games.
Perhaps social pressures of power gaming and trading changed Diablo II into something it wasn't originally conceived to be (in which case the auction house could do much worse to D3). I remember Diablo II before LOD pretty well. It wasn't very hard to get enough kit to handle hell difficulty. Some selective gambling (Hand of Broc anyone?) and shopping and getting a few nice jewelry drops and you were pretty much there. Before you finished normally difficulty even you might have enough kit for hell. Most dangerous thing in the game was getting cursed with that darn Iron Maiden. Boy that game sure changed a lot though...