The Blue Elephant Brigade

TeflonJon · Brigadier Rookie Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 1284

Thinking about grinding items while I'm looking for a job to supplement income.

midget · Brigadier Veteran Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 2263

Yeah, my buddy made just over $100 on the first day.
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Akuma · Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 10:46 am Post subject:

Just killed Diablo on Inferno, woo!
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Mongolio · Brigadier Elite Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 4976

I might try selling a few things that have been sitting in my stash for a while on the Real Money AH. Are people dumb enough to spend real money on stuff?
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Akuma · Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 8:22 am Post subject:

My buddy's up to almost $300 after this week, and I've made almost $200, so I'd say yes.
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Mongolio · Brigadier Elite Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 4976

I guess I'll play around with it then. Does the transaction fee go up based on how much the list price is?
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Akuma · Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 8:29 am Post subject:

It's always $1 cut for Blizzard on sale, then 15% when you transfer to Paypal.
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Mongolio · Brigadier Elite Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 4976

I assume you will need to transfer it to PayPal in order to get access to the money. I also assume keeping it with Blizzard is just if you want to spend money on the $$$ AH.
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---RationalWiki

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Akuma · Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 8:51 am Post subject:

Correct. But honestly spending money on D3 gear is crazy, I'd never do it. I'm just happy lots of other people will. Very Happy

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Mongolio · Brigadier Elite Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 4976

What REALLY pisses me off about their AH is that you can ONLY search Legendary or Set by name... You can't search for something like Wirt's Original Leg or something that isn't a Legendary or a Set.
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Akuma · Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 4:20 pm Post subject:

There's lots of things they want to improve about the AH search system, yeah.
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Eisen · Brigadier Joined: 29 Mar 2005 Posts: 1925

They're raising repair bills by about 4-6x! I already pay about 6k every 10 minutes!

Akuma · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 10:04 am Post subject:

Die less~
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Eisen · Brigadier Joined: 29 Mar 2005 Posts: 1925

That shit's hard when Quillboars can one-shot me and they shoot too fast to dodge.

Akuma · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 11:00 am Post subject:

Get more resists / armor / vit. They don't one shot me.
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Mongolio · Brigadier Elite Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 4976

If you are an altaholic like I am, get socketed weapons as soon as you can in Normal Difficulty. Put in the best +Damage gems you can. I was messing around with my Monk last night in Act II. Dropped one of the +14-28 damage gems into each weapon. On fast weapons, it added a little over 100 DPS (considering my starting DPS was 135...). Makes it go quite a lot faster.

After the gem combination price drop, I see tons of gems in items on the Gold AH. Buy the item, remove the gem, dump the item. Simple.
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Akuma · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2012 11:14 am Post subject:

Cheaper to salvage the item which also returns the gem, for free. I mean, if you didn't want the item anyway.
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Mongolio · Brigadier Elite Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 4976

I just discovered the Gold AH was selling gems now. I don't bother with getting gems that way. I just buy the Flawless Square Gems of whatever color in batches of 5 or 10. A batch of 10 costs between 2k and 8k gold and you get a refund of 100 to 500 gold each time for some odd reason.

I'm socketing damage gems (+14-2 Cool

damage on my weapons and it's adding 30 to 50 DPS per weapon depending upon weapon speed. Then putting those same gems as whatever my damage stat is (Str, Dex, Int) in all slots of gear (I buy gear that has sockets when possible now).

I'm learning...
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Core meltdown (commonly known as a meltdown) is an accident scenario in nuclear reactors, and is one of the possible modes of failure for light water reactors, during which the reactor pile turns into a pile of reactor.
---RationalWiki

If Jesus had existed, his DNA would have been 99% similar to that of a chimpanzee. Or you. You're 99% Jesus.
-- RationalWiki

Mishlai · Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 2:28 am Post subject:

Anyone else still playing this? My HC WD is just shy of 54, in Hell Act 1. I just picked up a reduced level requirement 2-hander that shot my dps up to 8200, so I'm back to god-mode till... Act 2?

I don't have a SC character that has progressed this far, so I'm seeing content for the first time as I level her.
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Eisen · Brigadier Joined: 29 Mar 2005 Posts: 1925

So, I think the game is significantly better now.