What's up with tradevalues?
Hello everyone!
As you can see, I'm new to these forums and I was a bit unsure about where to post, so if this is completely the wrong place, I'm sorry.
I've had a pretty huge break from diablo2 and started to play again, just a few days back. I was a bit hesitant about writing this thread here, since it might have been better off in the newcomers forum, but since I'm not exactly a newbie, I thought this was a better place to post, since I do have a few gameplay related questions comming up (I'm sorry if I offended anyone or broke the forum rules, can't quite remember if it was the word involving two o's that was prohibited, or if it was the word all together). Anyway, I stopped playing diablo about half a year before v1.10, so it has been a little confusing to get started, but fun none the less.
I've been able to catch up on the most important gameplay changes, but something that seems to have completely changed are the trading values and such. I've been reading the trade forums and I have to say that a lot of the items/prices there, seem kind of ridiculous to me. I actully like the fact that you can buy items with p.gems and such and that makes sense, since afaik there's a horadric cube recipe that you can re-roll(?) a charm's abilities with, which involves p.gems.
Nowdays however, it seems that items like ethereal elite weapons/armor sell for loads and for even more when they are superior (atleast if you compare to 1.09, where as far as I remember they weren't worth anything (atleast most of them)). Also socketed items values make me wonder, since it looks like exceptional armor with 3 sockets or something similar are often traded for medium runes and such and to me this seems like quite a bit, since even I have found two or three of these during about one week of play. I absolutely do understand that an ethereal berserker axe with 5-6 sockets can be extremely difficult to find and that it's value thereby is high, but when I see ethereal elite polearms/axes/swords whatnot (same with armor) WITHOUT any sockets or even without being ethereal, going for even pretty high runes (well, high in my opinion atlast ), I can't but wonder what has made the tradevalues change so dramatically. In a way it makes sense that runes are worth less because of the hf actully being usefull nowdays, but I find it hard to believe that it is easier to come by an ist rune, than it is to find an ethereal berserker axe for instance (atleast on ladder ). I also want to make it clear that I'm not whining about the values, I'm simply curious.
English is not my native tongue, so the text most likely contains some spelling errors. I wrote this at work and I was interrupted several times, so I'm sorry if I have been repeating myself. I did however read through the text and afaik it's readable.
Thanks for spending your time reading through this post and thanks in advance for any possible input. :thumbsup:
EDIT: Can't believe I completely overlooked the Trade Values forum, I guess it would have made a lot more sense to post this there, oh well...
Hello everyone!
As you can see, I'm new to these forums and I was a bit unsure about where to post, so if this is completely the wrong place, I'm sorry.
I've had a pretty huge break from diablo2 and started to play again, just a few days back. I was a bit hesitant about writing this thread here, since it might have been better off in the newcomers forum, but since I'm not exactly a newbie, I thought this was a better place to post, since I do have a few gameplay related questions comming up (I'm sorry if I offended anyone or broke the forum rules, can't quite remember if it was the word involving two o's that was prohibited, or if it was the word all together). Anyway, I stopped playing diablo about half a year before v1.10, so it has been a little confusing to get started, but fun none the less.
I've been able to catch up on the most important gameplay changes, but something that seems to have completely changed are the trading values and such. I've been reading the trade forums and I have to say that a lot of the items/prices there, seem kind of ridiculous to me. I actully like the fact that you can buy items with p.gems and such and that makes sense, since afaik there's a horadric cube recipe that you can re-roll(?) a charm's abilities with, which involves p.gems. Nowdays however, it seems that items like ethereal elite weapons/armor sell for loads and for even more when they are superior (atleast if you compare to 1.09, where as far as I remember they weren't worth anything (atleast most of them)). Also socketed items values make me wonder, since it looks like exceptional armor with 3 sockets or something similar are often traded for medium runes and such and to me this seems like quite a bit, since even I have found two or three of these during about one week of play. I absolutely do understand that an ethereal berserker axe with 5-6 sockets can be extremely difficult to find and that it's value thereby is high, but when I see ethereal elite polearms/axes/swords whatnot (same with armor) WITHOUT any sockets or even without being ethereal, going for even pretty high runes (well, high in my opinion atlast
), I can't but wonder what has made the tradevalues change so dramatically. In a way it makes sense that runes are worth less because of the hf actully being usefull nowdays, but I find it hard to believe that it is easier to come by an ist rune, than it is to find an ethereal berserker axe for instance (atleast on ladder ). I also want to make it clear that I'm not whining about the values, I'm simply curious.English is not my native tongue, so the text most likely contains some spelling errors. I wrote this at work and I was interrupted several times, so I'm sorry if I have been repeating myself. I did however read through the text and afaik it's readable.
Thanks for spending your time reading through this post and thanks in advance for any possible input. :thumbsup:
EDIT: Can't believe I completely overlooked the Trade Values forum, I guess it would have made a lot more sense to post this there, oh well...
