05-30-2012, 08:55 AM
(05-30-2012, 08:47 AM)RedRadical Wrote: It exists in the lower difficulties, but not nearly as badly. Parts of hell difficulty do get tedious at times, but at least there, you can just hit the AH up and make a moderate upgrade for a decent price - to bring the difficulty to a manageable level. But small upgrades in Inferno just don't suffice - you need BIG upgrades. My char could use a ton of upgrades but I need millions in gold, which I don't have. The only thing I can do at this point is complete Act 1, and re-run it again, collect every gold pile i can, and sell any halfway decent items I might find on the AH. And this will take a long while, just to make even one really good upgrade - but that seems to be the nature of Inferno. You will have to spend MILLIONS of gold if you want to beat Inferno, and probably millions more if you really want to make a truly outstanding char (which I do, because I am a PvP player).
Crafting is actually a viable option for upgrades and can often be cheaper or more efficient than going straight to the Auction House. This will only increase in viability after the next patch as I believe Blizz has stated they are going to lower the cost of high level crafts. If you're not finding viable upgrades on the AH for reasonable prices (and I believe inflation will keep the prices going up for the quality items in the foreseable future) or you are just unwilling to use the AH for other reasons try balancing out the gear you sell vs. the gear you salvage and then work on crafing up pieces that you need upgrades for. Even if you don't get pieces that you need, you will often get pieces that can sell for good prices to other people.
So far I've invested maybe 400k into crafting pieces and I've sold two of the quality pieces for ~1 million.