07-18-2012, 02:10 AM
(07-17-2012, 07:26 AM)Chesspiece_face Wrote: Top end items have always been astronomically low drop rates in these games. The only reason it wasn't like that in earlier games was because of rampant duping.
Ehhh, not really. D2 and D3 appear to be birds of a feather to me, but he has a point regarding D1. For better or worse. Give me a week playing a new character in D1 without twinking or trading, and I'll probably be able to show you a Royal Circlet, a Dreamflange, an awesome FPM, a king's sword of haste or something very close to it, two obsidian whatevers, maxed stats and spells, level 40ish character. A character who is not quite as powerful as the best geared level 50s ever built, but close enough to hang with them in battle.
In D3 the items have a far greater impact on the power of the character and top end items are probably harder to find by 5-10 orders of magnitude. Which is a massive difference. Then you put in areas of the game were some fairly rare gear is needed to survive and it becomes a factor that cannot be glossed over.
Although I do agree with the psychology that anything worse than your current gear is trash, and therefor the more you play the more everything turns into trash, and using the AH turns everything into trash by default.