Share your experiences with crafting

**HardRock** · 02-09-2012, 16:06

Thanks for the posts everyone, keep 'em coming.

Also, thank you Appl for giving people a list of things to consider before trying to profit from crafting. I'm sure it will be useful for people with less experience with trading. Thinking about the state of the market when someone makes a claim about their profits is an especially useful advice.

Looks like I'll wait a little more before doing some serious crafting, since I only have about 5m gold to spare at the moment. Although I may try my luck with some of the 6 prop armor recipes, because they are cheaper to craft than weapons.

**pulli** · 02-09-2012, 16:16

Originally Posted by kestegs

That happens unfortunately, crafting is a gamble.

Has anyone crafted any Legendaries lately? Are there any pieces worth crafting even?

I think people only post succes stories - like me I guess many people tried it for a small while and simply noticed it isn't worth the time & never done it after. Those people don't post here often; and that makes the few who just got terribly lucky seem the standard. I feel cheated by those who did.

**HardRock** · 02-09-2012, 16:34

Originally Posted by pulli

I think people only post succes stories - like me I guess many people tried it for a small while and simply noticed it isn't worth the time & never done it after. Those people don't post here often; and that makes the few who just got terribly lucky seem the standard. I feel cheated by those who did.

Would you feel cheated by someone who told you that he won a million dollar in roulette in a few minutes, before trying it yourself and losing big time? No, you would instantly know, that he got extremely lucky.

Like others have said, crafting in D3 is a gamble as well and you should treat it as such. When people read the "+x random properties" part of the recipes' tooltip, this should be obvious.

**zacheroog** · 02-09-2012, 16:51

I think I walked away from crafting after watching close to 1 mill go down, and only got a DH cape worth about 80k on AH. I imagine if you have multiple million laying around then it might be worth trying. I'm too casual though. The boys on the AH are my craftsmen.

**pulli** · 02-09-2012, 18:05

uh no, diablo 3 is not gambling - if it was no rmah would be allowed in the EU; gambling for real money is only allowed for people past the age of 21 in the netherlands/eu.

**HardRock** · 02-09-2012, 18:37

You can buy crafting components for gold or money if you choose to. Since gold can also be bought for money, gold is money. Crafting is random, therefor you're either gambling with your time (if you farm your own gold and components) or with your money. One could also argue of course, that time is money as well. Crafting is gambling, there's no question about it.

If you want to discuss this though, please start another thread.

**0blique** · 02-09-2012, 20:54

For me, I experimented with crafting on my first char, as I wanted to finish the game in normal with self-found or self crafted items only. I found it to be ok, but not that great. On my next character, I used the auction house and sold everything I found that I couldn't use, and that is working much better. You can even keep all the items you buy and use them for other characters.

Level 60+ crafting is a different story though, and one that I'm not really interested in. Just like gambling for soj in D2, you need a lot of time and gold to invest in it, and I'd rather just buy the end products instead.