Infernal Thursdaily

[Shagsbeard]

Got to say that everyone who is "getting bored with it" seems to use the Auction House. I can't fathom the corelation. It couldn't be that finding items from a list is somehow less interesting than finding it through play... could it?

[jamesixgun]

RL: Finished the monthly project, plus a couple of side items at work today, and can now resume my usually scheduled tasks. Whoo. The water appears to be off. Not sure if it's the whole complex, or the whole block, or just my apartment. I half hope it doesn't come back on before shower time in the morning, because if I can't get a shower, I won't be going in to work, and I could use an unscheduled day off... (Note: in 26 months at my job, I have never called in sick, and never been late, so I think I'm probably due a mental health day...) Other than that, not much excitement, and the day is nearing its end, so I foresee finishing dinner, staring blankly at the tele, and playing with the cats, then a nice early bedtime in maybe an hour.

D3: nopes. But the weekend approaches, and so does death to Normal Belial. GoGo.

[BaronScarpia]

Got to say that everyone who is "getting bored with it" seems to use the Auction House. I can't fathom the corelation. It couldn't be that finding items from a list is somehow less interesting than finding it through play... could it?

Warning: This is not a rant post or a "this game is bad" post, it's an explanation of why I think that maybe I'm not target market anymore (I'm way past the point of "something is bad because isn't made for me"). And yes, if I didn't use AH, it's very, very likely I would be playing D3 instead of writing this (as in "Shags is right" in my case). But, maybe I would be writing this in a few months:

Since you asked, in my specific case (not that I'm right or it's a rule):

Spoiler

- It's because a single bomb of a lacuni hunter on act 2 inferno deals 29k+ (even with my 250+ res) and 1-hit kill me; (It looks like that pretty much everything can 1 hit/2 hit ko DHs past act 2 inferno);
- It's because 90%+ of act 1 inferno ilvl 60 drops are salvaging material;
- It's because my 15k+ DPS DH couldn't make a scratch on anything on act 3 (being there for a while, after joining a MP game after they killed Belial);
- It's because it looks like I can't find items through play to deal more than 20k DPS (or even 10kps) and be able to do something against the fallens descending the staircase on act 3;
- It's because it looks like I have to buy a hand xbow/bow from AH if I plan to do something on act 3 inferno and will have to farm gold on act 1 for a couple weeks to do that;

If I didn't got the auction house stuff earlier, I probably would have shelved the game already or would have been looking for lvl 42 items somewhere on act 3 NM for days. The GAH on the early difficulties was the fun part... It starts to be unfun when you reach a point where you have a hard time selling stuff/finding stuff to sell and (apparently) have to buy stuff on AH if you want to do something other than stun&run your way to diablo on inferno.

The items are so uninteresting imo that I find better search for them in a list on weekends rather than look for them in game (I don't like rare items, even on d2).

Probably, the biggest reason behind my boringness is:

- the viable strategy for my DH seems to be getting 5 stacks of NV, run around and kill everything ahead + the butcher, in order to "get paid" in the end of effort with some gold, which I'll use to buy something on AH sat/sun that will make me "fell awesome" - if it sounded like a teenager doing a part time job to buy cool stuff in the weekend, yep, that's exactly how I feel.

No "win teh lottery" factor from d2 (ber from stash, astreon for pindle, unexpected vex in between), just an expected amount of gold/hours of play. When I buy a 100k item, I know how much playtime it'll cost me, no jackpots involved. The fact that you actually need to play around an hour in order to have the 5 stacks of NV and use them for decent results just makes the felling more proeminent.

It's a little weird but... I can know how much time will take if I want an endgame bow that will make possible to farm endgame weapons (a month or two, if I dedicate myself to the task, i.e.), but I can't tell you how much time will take to find a Tyrael's Might(1 run, 1 day, 1 month, never?). On the D3 example, it fells I'm getting paid from working, on the d2 example it fells like being blessed by lady lucky (aka fells better). Brain wants what brain wants. Brain says "let's play d2 again"... I'm still hoping for that to change on 1.0.3 (different drop ratios, act 2 nerf, stuff...), that's why I'm not back to my beloved pindle runs yet...

[Shagsbeard]

RL: I'm trying to adjust my bio-clock by staying up later than usual. I'm typically an early morning person, but I'm going on a cruise in 10 days and mornings on the boat are particularly dull. So no more 4 a.m. computer games for me. Don't know if it's going to work, but it's worth a try. If anything, I'll be exhausted for my trip and be able to enjoy a 7 day nap.

[spearv]

Got to say that everyone who is "getting bored with it" seems to use the Auction House. I can't fathom the corelation. It couldn't be that finding items from a list is somehow less interesting than finding it through play... could it?

In a select number of cases, certainly.

For the majority I'm sure that isn't the case, the D2 trading scene wasn't far short of picking items from a list but it tended to pull people into the game more deeply rather than immediately pushing them away. I'd expect if there is a correlation between heavy AH use and boredom it is to do with the fact that they're getting to, and getting frustrated with, issues of Inferno balancing (far) faster, and that's leading to a bit of thumb twiddling, waiting on 1.0.3.