A full time player’s “not so astronomically rare” is a more occasional player’s “once in a lifetime find.”

QFT! and /sign

The confirmation on why certain items were so incredibly rare reveals the thought process at the time that was very penalizing to Single-Players. This was even furthered with subsequent patches.

I’m hoping this time things are done differently. It seems so, from what Bashiok says of them not wanting to work again with such astronomical odds. In any case, I would like to see a D3 that, while certainly providing a good online system, made provisions for the single-play component of the game.

As for sockets… correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t Bashiok saying just recently they weren’t planning to include sockets in D3?

it is my opinion that anything that can hurt a character in the long run should have a confirmation option. things like skill trees, i would like it if when you added a point it could be removed and added somewhere else prior to you closing the tree, then when you are finished there is a button to click to set the points in stone. i know with respecs this is not that bad of an issue but who knows what is going to be involved with respecs. this same confirmation should be applied to sockets and anything else like that

I agree on the socketing confirmation thing.  I can’t remember how many times I’ve accidentally placed something in a socket while moving items around in my inventory. 
Maybe if there was something similar to what was used in Titan quest -where you right-clicked on the gem, rune, whatever first to add it to a socket?  I thought that worked pretty well.

My 2 cents (or these days 1 cent) ... Just allow us to un-socket by going to a town-vendor and paying a gold fee.  Upon paying the fee, everything socketed in the item is removed.  You get back a clean item and all the item components.  Gold cost would be determined by the item quality of everything involved.  The better the quality, the higher the cost.

@Krugar
Penalizing to Single-Players is what was (in)famous about Blizzard North just look on Hellgate, thx god that they don’t make D3 anymore, i was sick about them.

Maybe if there was something similar to what was used in Titan quest -where you right-clicked on the gem, rune, whatever first to add it to a socket?  I thought that worked pretty well.

Agree 100%, that system was nearly flawless other than right click was also used to auto sell items at the merchants so I always sell my Relics/Charms while trying to socket something while talking to a merchant. I also liked Titan Quest’s system for un-socketing where you talked to a merchant in town who could un-socket an item and you got to choose if you wanted to keep the item or the thing that was socketed in it.

Obviously blizzard has figured out the socket thing.  Just look at wow.  There are sockets in that and I cant think of anyone actually screwing them up on accident.

I think it’s safe to say that all of the things that were simply poor design decisions in d2 due to lack of hindsight or lack of foresight, won’t be included.

I am extremely happy to hear about the odds being way toned down.  “it’s the items that drop, not the ones that don’t” that keep you playing, indeed. (with the exception of those collection completionists.)

Krugar what Bashiok was saying to my knowledge is that it wasn’t gonna be like in D2 (The topic it was posted in was one about runes and socketing as you know runes have nothing to do with items now).
TQ has some great ideas when it comes to socketing/unsocketing items.
BrotherRatcliff you can buy back/sell item for no extra cost if you sell an item by mistake in TQ (at lest while shop window is open) unlike diablo where you lose a fair amount of gold.