05-28-2012, 05:21 PM
(05-28-2012, 06:15 AM)Bolty Wrote: Just to annoy RedRadical, I'll point out that my Barbarian just completed Hell difficulty tonight at level 60 without buying a single item from the Auction House, ever. Act IV was a little rough, I'll admit, especially with my gung-ho "jump in and ask questions later" style of Barbarianism. However, it was doable, and Diablo went splat. No rares or champion packs were skipped. If I was playing Hardcore, I'd have had to skip that one Infernal pack on the way to the Pinnacle (Molten Plagued Fast and runs away from you).
I'm using a blue item as a weapon. My chestplate is total crap, I never found any rare rings worth squat, and my boots are a joke. I finished with roughly 26,000 hit points and 4600 armor.
All the same, I don't understand the hatred for the Auction House. It is a source of loot. You earn gold in the game that you use to get more stash space, buff your Blacksmith and Gem Vendor, and buy loot off of the Auction House. If I want to get serious about Inferno difficulty, I can either farm Hell Act IV or Inferno Act I for a long time, or else shop the Auction House. Both activities are equivalent, and nobody's "forced" into one or the other.
DPS, resists?
And define "total crap", what tier level, required clvl, and affixes do your items have?
Anyway, thats cool and all if you didnt use the AH - great for you. But for most of us, it becomes a necessity - because the drops are god awful and crafting anything at this stage of the game until you max your smith is just illogical.
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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)