03-12-2003, 08:28 AM
This is a bit of a non sequitur, but...
I came back to Diablo after a long hiatus, and as i leveled my new java past Blood Moor, i checked the fora and learned of the duping. So i resigned myself to not trading at all. Not that i ever did much trading, i played in a regular grp and we gave each other stuff on a "most useful for..." basis. But all my old crew had stopped playing. Anyway with no twinking and no trading, i ended up accumulating a ton of decent gear: Stormshield, Shaftstop, Hellslayer, etc.
The non trade issue really hit hard when i was lvl 70 and still didnt have Titan's. I could have traded for it easily--Titan's is dirt cheap these days, not necessarily because they have been duped, but due to a combo i think of being in a low treasure class and the overall drop in the value of SoJs as you said. My one legit SoJ could have gotten me Titan's + Thundergod's Vigor. (The best offer i received.) But i declined. And after a billion Hell Meph runs, when it finally dropped, that was the best drop i have ever experienced in Diablo. Stormshield and Shaftstop were also very nice, as was Lightsaber.
So, yeah, the value of things is all out of whack on BNet. But as a result, if you dont trade, the value of things is heightened for an individual player i think.
This isnt just about, putting a positive spin on things. Really, even if SoJs still had value, do you think an accurate economy would be better than not trading? Because, even without duping, *that* many players doing *that* many MF runs, no item will be scarce. Not playing very much with no trading it was not hard for me to find a lot of high end gear. It would be easy for any but the most casual player to outfit himself in his ideal uber setup in no time, if he traded even in a legit economy. I think that takes a lot of fun away from the game.
I came back to Diablo after a long hiatus, and as i leveled my new java past Blood Moor, i checked the fora and learned of the duping. So i resigned myself to not trading at all. Not that i ever did much trading, i played in a regular grp and we gave each other stuff on a "most useful for..." basis. But all my old crew had stopped playing. Anyway with no twinking and no trading, i ended up accumulating a ton of decent gear: Stormshield, Shaftstop, Hellslayer, etc.
The non trade issue really hit hard when i was lvl 70 and still didnt have Titan's. I could have traded for it easily--Titan's is dirt cheap these days, not necessarily because they have been duped, but due to a combo i think of being in a low treasure class and the overall drop in the value of SoJs as you said. My one legit SoJ could have gotten me Titan's + Thundergod's Vigor. (The best offer i received.) But i declined. And after a billion Hell Meph runs, when it finally dropped, that was the best drop i have ever experienced in Diablo. Stormshield and Shaftstop were also very nice, as was Lightsaber.
So, yeah, the value of things is all out of whack on BNet. But as a result, if you dont trade, the value of things is heightened for an individual player i think.
This isnt just about, putting a positive spin on things. Really, even if SoJs still had value, do you think an accurate economy would be better than not trading? Because, even without duping, *that* many players doing *that* many MF runs, no item will be scarce. Not playing very much with no trading it was not hard for me to find a lot of high end gear. It would be easy for any but the most casual player to outfit himself in his ideal uber setup in no time, if he traded even in a legit economy. I think that takes a lot of fun away from the game.