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[Archon_Wing]

I guess it's kinda true that the real game doesn't start til 60 as items are concerned. However, in the earlier difficulties you also have the option of stacking more MF and +exp gem since you don't have to worry that much about survival until hell mode. I suppose 50-60 sucks the most. I can't say I've had trouble making yellows appear in nightmare and such. Hell mode sometimes will offers outright upgrades as drops even with some AH usage. It's just that the item isn't for you a lot of the time but that's only natural with 5 classes in the game and why the AH exists.

Also, while leveling is annoying in hc, it also means lower level items in hc have value in the AH, as opposed to softcore while you might as well vendor anything less than ilvl 62. It's not hard to gather several hundred k just by Ah'ing any halfway decent item that comes across. As a result the HC economy is way better and I ended up caring more about loot since that random blue or yellow in late nightmare could be 50k right there. There's really nothing in softcore that could compare to this.

For me in hc the greatest anticipation was just before my wizard hit 60. Massive shopping spree ensued. :p