05-31-2012, 06:10 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-31-2012, 06:24 PM by FireIceTalon.)
(05-30-2012, 11:03 AM)MongoJerry Wrote:Quote:Also, the jeweler charges a ridiculous amount for creating higher level gems - you can buy them much cheaper on, yea you guessed it, the AH. I mean 50k to craft 1 Radiant Square jewel is outrageous.
50k is nothing. If you really are that desperate for gold, just hop down an act or two from where you're playing and pick up gold with ease and sell any blues you find to the vendor. You don't have to do it, but it's one solution. So, you're saying that you haven't even trained your blacksmith to the highest level, yet? No wonder you don't think you can get any good loot without killing yourself buying stuff on the auction house. You know that in-game inflation is just going to make all those items even more expensive over time, right?
RedRadical, simple question: How much health, armor, resistance, and dps does your top character have? Not long ago, you said you had 25k health. Have you improved on that and your other defensive stats?
50K to craft a single jewel is absurd in any circumstance, but especially since they can be bought for cheaper on the AH. Thankfully Blizz has said they are going to lower the cost substantially soon. I havent maxed my blacksmith yet, because between training and crafting multiple times to find an upgrade is much more expensive for what I would get compared to what I can get on the AH. When I'm sitting on near a million gold, I will max him and start salvaging more items.
And yes, I have increased my defenses up some since then. Health is around 37k now, armor 3300 ish, and resists I can't recall atm, but overall damage reduction is up to 54% - still not great but substantially better than where I was at. DPS changes depending on which items I EQ but is generally within the range of 17k-22k, which is plenty for now. I have completed Act 1 as of yestarday, but will likely continue to do Imprisoned Angel quest co-ops to rapidly accumulate a large amount of gold and rares to sell. I will gear my char with Act 3 and 4 level items from the AH before attempting Act 2 - because I anticipate an outrageous increase in the difficulty spike there. I look to have around 50k health, 4k armor, 600+ resists, 75% dmg reduction, and around double the DPS I have now before trying Act 2.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)