Shiny Prizes

[Archon_Wing]

Once again, my shiny prize comes from it being sold, rather than the item itself. I'm curious on why I sold the shield for 8.99 but then again I don't care.

http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff247...hot086.jpg

:p

I'm not really into insulting people on purpose, and I'm not really trying to do that here, but I can't believe there's stupid enough to pay $2.50 for that shield, let alone $8.99. You could have put it up on our side for 100k bid and I could almost say you wouldn't get a bid. It's a terrible, terrible item. The block chance is as bad as it comes, the +9% block only takes it up to 1% less than of what you can get with out any block chance. The 79 str is a bonus to the armor, but the armor level on it is just normal. The +167 intelligence is a decent, but somewhat low amount, given that +200 is the maximum from a single bonus, thus +300 is the highest normal amount from 50/50% + 100%. The Cold Chance is decent and high, but without it being on a Dex item, there's way it's worth too much. The socket is the best stat on the item, nothing much to say, except it's probably not worth much more than a buck or two on a shield. And melee reflect? Oy.

I do thank you for explaining that though. Now it's no wonder why one of my friends made over $700.00 from 7/1/12 to 7/4/12 to pay rent on the RMAH, if shit like this sells for $8.99. Whoever bought it explains sooo much about D2JSP and the effects of it affecting D3 now.

This is why I quipped a few times that I never get any real shiny prizes via drops and it only comes from the gold/cash people overpay on my stuff. :p

But yes, you're right. It's a sort of item I'd never consider using myself, but I'm aware people like big numbers...

My theory is just that people who use the RMAH aren't familiar with the mechanics and look at big numbers or unusual things like sockets. For this reason, the bigger the numbers, the more likely you should sell.

Then again, one can just take a glance inside a casino and realize the RMAH silliness is peanuts compared to that. People throw away tons of cash for instant gratification and the thrill. Sure, in a casino they can actually win, but that doesn't really happen much unless it's a game of skill such as poker.

On the hardcore side, I would say there's a lot of overpriced stuff too. Imagine my horror when I just filtered by stats slightly better than the level ~26 boots I have on my 51 Wizard and with no buyout feature only came up with a few boots in the millions. :S I refuse to ditch movement speed.