Item Sales, Crafting Jackpot, and Laggggg?
Posted 22 January 2013 by FluxThree separate issues, just for conversation and feedback.
Lagging Deaths?
Has anyone HC ever died of lag in Diablo 3? I’m sure someone has, and probably people with bad Internet connections (Comcast overcharges, but my connection is quite stable) die all the time, but when I got a lag death in a game tonight I realized I couldn’t ever remember that happening in Diablo 3. I had a few lag/disc deaths during the beta, when D3 B.net seemed sketchier and had a lot more downtime, but since then? I honestly don’t think I’d ever died to lag or disconnect.
I’m not playing HC (yet?) in D3 so it doesn’t really matter if I die or not, but it’s certainly nice not to get bumped from games and killed for things that weren’t my fault. The weekly 8 hour maintenance periods are annoying since they always seem to start just when I’ve got a couple of hours to kill, and I’d still prefer a proper single player/offline mode, but on the whole I’ve been pretty satisfied with B.net’s uptime and speed for D3.
I certainly had a *lot* more lag and disconnect issues during the D2 days, though the entire Internet wasn’t as well-stocked with cat lulz images back then and was thus inherently less robust.
Crafting Jackpot
That dog’ll hunt.
BoA, and it’s only on the PTR so doesn’t *really* exist. But still… look at those numbers.
I can’t even estimate a price; those stats with like 150 Dex would probably be 2b on Americas SC GAH, but with 370 Dex, and big +dmg, and huge Vit? That’s just off the charts. Literally, it’s impossible to get more than about 330 to any mainstat on a rare amulet in the current game. Only the new v1.07 crafting recipes can create such a huge number for dex/int/str.
Maybe now you want to start stockpiling Iridescent Tears after all, eh?
Auction House Sales Lull
Maybe it’s just me, but have other people noticed that items are suddenly just *not* selling in the GAH? I’m only using the Americas Softcore GAH, but the last few days suddenly none of my auctions are selling, and things were moving quite well during the week previous.
A selection of my recent non-sales.
Lull over the three-day holiday weekend? Random bad luck? More players spending time on the PTR and not shopping on the realms? Or has JW’s departure cast a dark pall over things, which only a new Game Director can repair?
nah i;ve been trying to sell some high grade items for prices lower then that it should be, nothing is selling.
16 of my 22 last auctions went really quick. I think its just you.
I never go over 1.500.000 gold when I am trying to sell, and not even then I sell stuff. Mostly the stuff I sell is around 50.000 gold actually, and that includeds legendaries, set-items and much more. If I sell it 30.000 it would go because of the brimstone <
People say I am stupid that doesnt charge much, but A. its a game. B. I can take whatever I want. C. Some poor bastard might get lucky – because I am a nice guy.
People say “unsuccessful troll is unsuccessful” when I try to give away some recently found jewellery that I just do not feel like selling… A, B and C all works for me:-)!
Sales on the EU realm is absolutely OK.
sales are ok on us servers
to the hc players … hahaha that what you deserve !!
That ammu is sick. Everyone will craft those BoA ammus. For 20 mill or so you can craft tons and have a fair chance of getting a good one. I guess ammus on AH will hardly sell now or at least be much cheaper.
Low level items sell all the time on AH. Decent/good high level items don’t because players allready got them. The PTR effect is minor I think.
What does boa mean?
it means it belong in world of noobcraft.
Bind on account. It means that soon everyone will be wearing a half set of armor that is not tradable or sellable.
Easily their worst idea yet, and that says something.
I’m selling stuff, but low end stuff for lower prices (2mi items for 1mi), since I can’t stand looking at trash anymore. What I did, mainly, was selling my gems and tomes and gear my alternates – almost all of them, since people don’t seem to be looking for midrange auctions anymore, especially on rares.
On midrange items, weird stuff is happening, like black damage weapons with the same price of elemental damage weapons lying there for hours. If you want an alternate to do fast runs sometime, definitly is time to shopping. If I had emeralds, I would have geared a MS DH for 10mi, except for self-found gloves with pick-up radius.
Also, people stopped selling some midrange rare items. I needed a 100 dex, 100 vit, crit chance and socket rare helm with nothing more for breakpoints. Nothing more (no armor, no nats, no AR, no nothing). I couldn’t find one better than mine (60D, 60V, ~5%CC, O) for a reasonable price. Sometimes I try to compare prices and search results are empty.
Apart from that, I’m still selling around 5 items per day for ~1mi. It isn’t nothing, but also it isn’t something good. It’s just enough to pay the alternates “testing bills”.
I’m seriously considering not picking up rares anymore; except jewelery, gloves, shoulders and maybe bracers.
If this post somehow bumps the price of iridescent tear, well, garbage will be smashed…
Flux, I’ve had the same experience on the AH. I can sell legendaries for brimstone prices, but not much else is moving. I’m still hoping 1.07 will bring in an influx of shoppers.
I die of lag once every 1-2 weeks, which doesn’t include the additional 3-5 times in that period that the game lags but I manage to survive.
The annoying thing is that this only happens with Blizzard games (D3, SC2) — any other game I play online is almost entirely fine with no lag issues.
I still really wish there were a single player / offline mode — both to avoid lag, but also because that would allow me to play D3 when I’m in places with no internet, which is when I tend to be pretty bored and would want to be playing D3.
I’ve had pretty brisk sales on the Americas HC auction house the past couple of weeks. Granted part of that is because I’ve been crafting/selling Hallowed Defender shields since I had the plan drop on the 7th. But I’ve had other stuff selling as well.
It seems to come and go in spurts for me. I will go days without selling an item and then all of a sudden I will sell 3-5 items. Most are for less than 500k but once in a while I move something for 3-5m. I listed a Skorn last night figuring it would take a week to sell, but 2 hrs later someone bought it for 40m. I think its just mostly having what someone is looking for. I think the item pool has become larger than the player base, so items need to be very stat specific to what people are looking for.
I am also thinking 1.07 will bring an influx of buyers. Not only people who are coming back to the game, but also people buying gems and crafting mats.
I just can’t help but wonder what it would be like if the game had been released with the current state its in…..