His post contains 2 stupids.


AH will just be driven into non-official sites just like D2, where people get scammed.


You can beat the game with 98/99. Many of us LYNers have done so before 1.03

Agree, you hit it right on the nail. AH allowed people shortcut the whole gearing up process where you're supposed to slowly find new upgrades, and be happy.

D3 was designed so that it would take months for bad players like me to finish Inferno. Heck I was stuck in D2 nightmare for months and never got out. But in D3 thanks to AH, I spent my 2m+ to buy some gears, and then cleared Inferno pre-1.03 with those gears.

The part where it becomes "forced" is not Blizzard pointing a gun to your head, but the difficulty curve of pre-1.03.

You farm easier content to gear up to progression content. Farm Act 1 to clear Act 2, farm Molten Core to go Blackwing Lair. But Act 2 was such an insane leap of difficulty, then you found the lv61 stuff you get from Butchers runs are completely inadequate against Act 2. Do you remember those 500dps lv61 weapons in the 1st week of release and thought they were awesome? Well they do nothing against pre-1.03 Act 2 mobs. Farming Act 1 over and over will not help you beat Act 2. So here comes the "forced" part, people turn to AH to get Act 2 progression gear.

And do you remember how those gears got into the AH if the difficulty spike was so large that it was supposedly unfarmable?

Underbridge, chest exploits, goblin resets, 3 second SS, mantra of healing, Tyreal. Even Kripp was doing goblin runs for days nonstop.

Exactly! I bought lv62 gears form AH so I won't get one-shotted in a content that drops lv62

I think Act 4 is the only one that feels underbaked.

Act 2 and 3 are pretty nice and loaded with events.