Diablo 3 Beta Info

Here is a quick list of initial beta information you may not have seen yet.

1. I estimate D3s economy to be 200x that of wow, ie: 1g in wow = 200g in diablo
2. You can only play in the beta up to the skeleton king, this takes about 2 hours. However you can play it over and over (character level continues to go up, max 13)
3. Your crafters are shared between your characters, so once you level it up or teach it a new recipe, all chars have it. (I'm assuming at least for normal, etc)
4. In 2 full play throughs, I've only had 1 rare drop.
5. Training your artisan is currently fairly challenging, the tomes required are made up of 5 pages, took me 2 full playthroughs to get 1 tome
6. 5 tomes are required for lvl 1 and 2 blacksmithing
7. For each tome that you train the BS with, you gain additional recipes.
8. I've already had 2 recipes drop in the beta. (3 but 1 duplicate)
9. The shared stash works well, and you buy additional space, similar to wow.
10. The wizard is very easy, nothing can get close to you.
11. Repairing does not seem to be the gold sink I thought it would be. Gamble crafting will certainly be the gold sink.
12. Deckard no longer identifies items for you, but you only need to identify the rare drops (yellow lettering)
13. Scrolls of Identify drop commonly.
14. Magic items (blue) drop very commonly.
15. You no longer have to click gold to pick it up, you can just run overtop of it, but you still have to click to pick up everything else.
16. You can find a scroll in game for a companion that assists in picking up gold for you, it lasts about 5 or so minutes, this is a must for ranged for time savings.
17. Random property crafting can include sockets, even on low levels, just crafted lvl 11 pants with a socket slot.
18. "Highly Saleable" and "Highly Salvagable" are also random properties.